Starting a new Goal?
I may be putting my efforts toward the CCIE on the back-burner. I’d really like to get the most prestidgious technical certification out there, but something else has come up. I think I may be falling into a more important and advantageous opportunity!
A new Masters program in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Ocean Engineering, or Mechanical Engineering is starting between URI & NUWC concentrating in Distributed Networking. I would choose either the Electrical or Computer Science track. This would require me to meet all the normal requirements for the program only substituting a few core classes/electives for the concentration. The problem is that I don’t know a differential equation from a doughy eclaire… it’s just been too long! I’ll also have problem with signal math if I end up taking DSPs.
So I ordered “Advanced Differential Equations for Dummies” and I’m breaking out my old signals book (by Leland B. Jackson, God of Signals and Transforms). I’ll also probably have to re-learn some trig and probability (always hated probability).
My other option is to learn basic computer programming from the { to the }. Yes I already know some, but my style is nil (since I only ever learned Pascal formally - and that was over 10 years ago). I just don’t know it well enough to get by. Relearning sounds easier than initially learning!
Well… it sounds like a fun summer so far! I wonder what else is in store…