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Decisions!
Jan. 10th, 2005 03:02 pmAs you may or may not know, one of my plans here at the U of O was to sneakily earn a math MS while earning my CS PhD. I have come to the conclusion that it simply is not worth it. It will take too much of my time and delay the onset of my PhD for too long. So screw it. From here on out I will be taking very few classes. I might sit in on a bunch, but I reserve the right to stop sitting in if research gets too busy.
This should make it so that I can graduate in another 2 to 3 years and still actually see ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
goteam and have some semblance of a life.
Hopefully, by the end of next year I will be so close to done that when I start feeling like cabanasloth (whose career I have duplicated alarmingly closely, albeit with a 1 year lag) I will be so close that I will want to see it through rather than leave.
So. It's all well and good for me to have decided that. Now I have to figure out whether I am teaching this summer or getting an internship somewhere. Time to email the ol' resume out to a few select organizations. They are willing to let me teach the Python course again, and they are also willing to let me do a course on web technologies if I can get a good description of the course to them real soon now. It would be pretty easy to do the Python course again, but it might be more fun to teach the web technologies course - I could force students to deal with an entirely new technology each assignment, and make them use at least 2 of them in concert for their final project.
Of course, if I were an intern, I would make about 5x as much money. Which would be nice and helpful when paying off "the bastards", a.k.a. the 1st 10% of our house. That way, should theshytiger decide that Eugene is not for her for some reason, we wouldn't have to try and find a housemate to replace her (as if they could).
So, an informal poll is now afoot! Web technologies, Python, BOTH CLASSES AT THE SAME TIME, one class and then the other with each as a 4 week intensive course, or an internship? What do you think? Note that they would pay me double if I taught both classes, but I would have almost no time for research.
