Re: Doing the Hard Part

Doing the Hard Part

Funnily enough, it seems like I'm going in exactly the opposite direction as hush. I'm starting my final year of a bachelor's in software engineering, and I'm looking to do a master's in geodesy and geomatics engineering next. I'm talking with some profs at my university about possible research areas I might work on, and I'm probably going to end up working on radio astronomy. I'm also interested in working with a group in the physics department that's doing ionosphere research, so I may end up talking with them soon too.

I've enjoyed software engineering: a lot of my classes were interesting, I did some internships that worked out pretty well, and I have a personal interest in technology. I guess I'm just hungry for something new. I was more a math guy than a CS guy back in highschool, and even now it's always been the more math-y parts of computer science that I've liked best, so I like the idea of going into a field where I'll have more opportunities to apply that.

It's kind of a double-edged sword though: Having done a bachelor's in software engineering, I don't have the math and physics knowledge that I'll probably end up needing for the master's program that I want to go into. I did some math and some electrical engineering that'll help, but not as much as I would have liked. I'm doing a course on quantum computing right now where this really shows. A lot of the course relies on linear algebra, and I did one introductory linear algebra course back in 2020 and haven't used it since. So now I'm going back and re-learning it so that I can use it today. I'll be taking some more math courses over the next year to get myself ready, so hopefully it won't be a problem.

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