Intro thread

[alexbayleaf]

Ooh, starting to get members, awesome!

I thought it might be good to do a quick intro thread. Let's do it like this:

Name: (DW and/or otherwise)
Where are you: (country etc)
What do you grow?
Why are you interested in this project?

Comments

[pozorvlak]

I spent my childhood though college years thinking of myself as a programmer but burned out hard in grad school back in '02 and went another direction in life.

Bad luck! I moved in the opposite direction - I burned out on maths in grad school, and fell back into the tech industry. Which wasn't really different enough for a swift recovery :-(

[algeh]

Funnily enough, I ended up teaching math after I burned out on computer science. I really enjoyed it, but I think a lot of what I was burned out on was the culture of computer scientists I had to work in rather than the subject, and teaching in a middle or high school is a very different culture than industry-focused CS grad school.