1. You weren't checking your phone every five minutes
2. You actually asked out people in person
3. Mobile Phones were actually very simple
4. Burning CDs for friends actually meant something
5. Your whole world was basically the street
6. Friends actually knocked on your front door
7. You had to call their house phone
8. Kids could spend the whole day outside
9. Life just seemed to move a bit slower
10. Technology felt exciting, not all consuming
11. Everyone watched the same shows and talked about them
12. Music somehow felt so much bigger
13. Saturday mornings were always meant for cartoons
14. The world felt somehow safer
15. After school meant logging into MSN
16. Social media hadn't taken over everything
17. Weekends meant blockbusters and new DVDs
18. Nobody was trying to become viral

I think most 2000s borns can relate to each other to some extent albeit early 2000s borns vs late 2000s borns childhood was quite different despite being only 6-9 years older but still.

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Mandatory September

• Mechanics, Fields and Forces
• Introduction to Electrical and Electronic Engineering
• Praxis Electronic Design
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 1

Mandatory January

• Waves and Matter
• Praxis Programming
• Introduction to Mechanical Engineering
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 2

Mandatory September

• Sustainable Development and Engineering Management
• Digital Design and Programming
• Circuits and Analysis
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 3

Mandatory January

• Computer Architecture and Embedded Systems
• Electrical Power and Machines
• Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism
• Mathematics for Engineers and Scientists 4

Mandatory September

• Probability, Statistics, and Information Theory
• Electrical Energy Systems
• Signals and Systems
• Semiconductor Electronics

Mandatory January

• Electromagnetism
• Time and Frequency Signal Analysis
• System Project

Optional September

• Advanced Analogue Electronics
• Embedded Systems
• Linear Control
• Digital Signal Processing

Optional Janaury

• Sustainable Energy and Power Systems
• Image Processing
• Industrial Power Systems

Mandatory AY

• 4th Year Individual Project.

I have a PhD in theoretical physics and never got on with experimental physics. I've spent several years in software engineering.

This is going to sound weird, but intuitively I don't believe in data, and algorithms seem out of place, like how you get to the answer is irrelevant. Practically speaking, I find algorithms easy to learn and use, and see how they make things faster. But I still don't intuitively understand why they're involved. It's like computation itself makes no sense to me.

I strongly feel there is a good reason to feel this way, one founded in mathematics, logic or even philosophy, but I don't know what it would be. It does remind me of how quantum computers don't compute things in the "this then that" fashion that digital computers do, that they - and correct my hand-wavy understanding if I'm wrong - just "coalesce" on the answer.

Does anyone recognise this?

Asking as a 195cm 18 yo guy whose height is decently more torso than legs proportion wise.

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Assuming that most of us here are aged 18-25 I bet most of us are either in college or already finished it. Some being as young as 1st year to some already have graduated a while ago (Bachelors degree). Hence I wanted to ask what is something that your college is/did teaching/teach you that has/had nothing to do with your degree? Please answer this whether you are a 1st year or graduate. As someone starting college this coming month I'm interested to see what lies in the first hand respondents archives!