During my computer science lecture today (which is physically painful to sit through, btw), my professor drew some analogy between the method of writing a program and the method of writing a term paper, something about sketching out the basic gist of it, them going in and fleshing it out, etc.

Then he said, in a somewhat ambiguous tone, "I'm sure we would ALL much rather write a program than a term paper." So I laughed. I laughed at the idea that someone would rather type a bunch of gibberish into a computer than communicate their own, human ideas in the King's English.

EVERYBODY STARED AT ME. And I realized that, actually, most of these people seriously would prefer writing a program over writing a paper. The prof hadn't been joking.

It was like being in the twilight zone.

posted at 3:06 PM by Alison

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