7/16    ranga-- impressive resume. How did you go from a material sci
        geek to a computer geek?                #1 ranga fan
              \_ he was basically studying two majors as the same time.
                 He is almost a legend of our school year.  -- swings
                 \_ His reputation among H07 4ZN CH1X was no less
                    astounding.
                    \_ In the words of Feynman: 'Have you got the right
                       fella?' ----ranga
        \_ I've been a computer geek most of my life (at least since
           the day my dad brought home a TI 99/4A from kmart). Most
           of my family has degrees in ME or MSE and I just went into
           that without really thinking about it too much. (I probably
           couldn't have got into EECS anyway).
           There are bits of MSE that are interesting (the physics more
           so than the engineering) but it is hard to find a MSE job
           that pays a decent wage. Thus I became a coder. I was very
           lucky to end up at cisco, etc. ----ranga
           \_ you should have attended Nick Weaver's talk on not going
              into CS for the money!  -tom
              \_ I didn't go into CS for making big bucks on IPOs,
                 options etc. I went into CS because it was the only
                 job I could get (cira 96) that paid a reasonable wage
                 and had decent working conditions.