From toadiesguy@yahoo.com Mon Jun 29 20:50:52 1998 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.05) with ESMTP id UAA74430 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:50:51 -0700 Received: from send1a.yahoomail.com (send1a.yahoomail.com [205.180.60.22]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW97.09) with SMTP id UAA00055 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:50:51 -0700 Message-ID: <19980630034930.21399.rocketmail@send1a.yahoomail.com> Received: from [209.16.240.14] by send1a; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:49:30 PDT Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 20:49:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Jon Purvis Subject: Re: stuff... To: failure@u.washington.edu MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii i already get free microsoft stuff. i work at compusa and the rep comes by every once in a while to give away stuff. they figure that if we use it and like it, we will sell more. got win98, office97, developer studio, all for free. does anyone know what kind of grades you have to have to get into these schools. i have 3.75+ gpa and a 33 on the act and a 1310 on the sat. plus lots of ap, honors, awards. jon "the beatings will continue until morale improves around here." management ---Jevon wrote: > > Jon Purvis wrote: > > > anyone seen any good (new) bands lately... > > Well, I'm sure you've all heard Harvey Danger by now... > > > who all caved in for win98... > > Not until I buy an new computer. But, by the time that happens the next > version of Windows will probably be out. > > > does anyone recommend a good school (far away from the south) to go to > > for computer engineering... > > My current CS professor got his undergrad from Waterloo (which Tim Knight > mentioned), so I'm assuming that school is pretty good. The University of > Washington has a very good (and *extremely* competitive) CS/CE program as > well. People from this dept. have gone on to do very big things, > including creating the HotBot search engine, and helping to found Pixar > (the company that did "Toy Story"). Even better, Microsoft and many other > local computer companies love to hire CS/CE undergrads for internships. > And, finally, all CS/CE majors get free Microsoft software (for > educational purposes only). > > Jevon > walking advertisement > > "Rock 'n' roll isn't just music. You're selling an attitude, too. > Take away the attitude and you're just like anyone else." --John Lydon > > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com .