Ladies and gentlemen. Perhaps I already talked to you about
this, but I’d like to say a few words about the technology and my major in
college. The subject is fascinating, although it seems that many people completely
don’t understand my life choice. Ironically I understand why they don’t
understand…
Polish version
First of all, what do I study? Computer science. More
specifically, computer information technology, which essentially sums up to collecting,
processing, and presenting information, and repairing "broken"
keyboards, monitor, servers and the Internet, or assigning privileges to users.
In other words, we are sitting in front of computers and repairing errors you
might encounter... Ok. Probably that doesn’t sound like a lot of fun, but on
the other hand, what sounds better? The policeman who risks his life every day?
Gardener? Plumber? I guess everything sounds good if you like doing it…
Why computers? The technology is absolutely fascinating.
Look at this - I'm sitting on the floor in the room at the other end of the
world, eating ice cream, and writing the text which I will then publish in a
few days. And one more thing - I listen to songs from 2015, and 2014, and those
5, 10, 25 years old, and I have no problem to find them. And one more thing – I
was submitting an assignment and I had to upload it on the school server, so I
connected from home (which reminds me... I still need to finish math homework...).
I read books, listen to music, watch movies and TV series ... and all this
without moving from this piece of the floor on which I sit, without the need
for putting ice cream aside.
Programs and websites like Dropbox or Google Drive allow you
to store files. Pages like Evernote give you freedom to store notes (I have
there tens of notes of lectures, some random notes to remember, the commands to
the terminal I needed one day, some statistics to one of the computer games...).
There are pages for movies, and music, and photos. There are forums on hundreds
of topics, from those devoted to Linux, through those revolving around books
and movies, to those that are completely random and no one knows what’s going
on.
Technology is moving forward allowing us to do things
without leaving home, without getting up from the couch, or without turning off
the TV. I know that it would be more fun to run, jump, sleep, or do some other
nonsense, but people involved in the problems of other people are also needed. Some
are psychologists, others work in IT.
Besides, computers have one advantage over the people - they
are not unpredictable. The correct command, the correct values and everything
works as it should, without any problems. With people it’s not always so easy…
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