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My college has this neat little thing called the FYP, or First Year Program. Basically, it's a selection of classes that you can choose from for one of your first-year courses. There are all sorts of fun little things to choose from... But, nerd that I am, I chose the Sci-Fi course, named "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?"
What we do is this: Sit in class, talk about controversial issues such as reality (what it is), what it means to be human, the existance of fate vs. free will, and get assigned to read really good sci-fi short stories and novels. As a plus, we're even assigned awesome movies to watch (including 12 Monkeys and The Matrix). Sure, they make us write stuff, too... but at least we're writing about fun stuff. Sci fi kicks ass, I tell you!
And last thursday, we had a guest speaker who talked about AI and how "smart" it is today (which isn't very). This man, however works for Epic Games... And considering I've heard him in the class next door to my Physics class every day that I have it, I think he's here for a while... I'll have to ask him some things about UC2, which he said is what he worked on last :-D. Funny guy, he is.
So, I now look forward to more short stories, and of course, the K-Dickian book entitled, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.
Huh. Sounds like an interesting class, even if it is rather useless. I like to refer to those weird, useless classes as "underwater basketweaving" classes. Anyway, my first year is pretty much planned out for me since I'm an engineering major(17 hours I think). Are you taking any other cool/interesting classes?
[Edited on 9/25/2004 10:24:23 PM]