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[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It depends where you study but if you end up at an institution which follows the analytic tradition then many of your classes will be more like discrete mathematics than a typical humanities degree.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

I remember showing up to my first class thinking it would basically be "stoner studies" and then being given a complicated lecture on formal logic. There was an American student at the front of the class who exclaimed at one point, "Wow! It's just like simple computer programming." I remember thinking I was in the wrong room lol.

Anyway I stuck with it and now I'm a computer programmer.

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)
[–] steeznson@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Indeed! It just took me a minute to realise that