.. title: got my masters!
.. slug: masters
.. date: 2007-05-01 17:10:08
.. tags: content, life

<p>
  Two years of classes and work are over<sup>1</sup>and I have a Masters 
  in Computer Science<sup>2</sup>.  They asked me what I focused in, but 
  I'm not entirely sure.  The classes I took fall into the Software
  Engineering category and also in the Programming Languages category.  I
  think I ended up with a Masters in CS focusing on Programming Languages.
</p>
<p>
  It was a fantastic experience and I'm twice as able as I used to be.  I
  learned Scheme and SML, Adaptive programming and aspect-oriented programming,
  XML Schema and XPath 2.0 (to some degree), structure-shy development and
  compiler technology, operational semantics and denotational semantics
  (though I'm still kind of iffy on the denotational kind), functional
  programming and LaTeX, and I was able to go to a bunch of really neat 
  seminars and hang out with a group of exceptional people.
</p>
<p>
  I'm really glad I took the two years off to go back to school.  I didn't
  expect it to pay off so greatly.
</p>
<p class="footnote">
  [1] - Technically I don't have it yet, but I will this weekend assuming
  all goes well which I no reason to believe that it won't.
</p>
<p class="footnote">
  [2] - While I'm done with everything that is to be graded, I'm still working
  on finishing up two papers for my research project.  I imagine that'll take
  me a while longer to do.
</p>