Comment by roadbuster
3 days ago
I read this in 1999 when entering university. It was so refreshing hearing a student provide a glimpse into the boots-on-the-ground reality of undergrad life at these world-renowned institution.
The closing sentence is also prescient; the author pivoted to CS, ultimately completing his doctorate at the University of Wisconsin at Madison
LinkedIn has him as Staff Software Engineer at Google: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucas-kovar-185a3531/
I'm pretty sure he's rolling in cash now :-)
But still doesn't have any women ;)
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Someone send him a link to this HN post and invite him to join us!
I read it about the same time. My friends and I (all of whom declared Physics and most of us switched to other majors before graduating) had tears in our eyes reading it. Funniest thing I had ever read.
I'm glad he's doing well.
Whole page is gone now?