Dean (Zhuiyang) Chen

I attended my first computer class ever, CPSC 223b, this afternoon at Yale. It is the first class out of the four semesters of classes I've attended at Yale where I felt I truly belonged(Well to be fair, all of those classes were econ classes, and I have almost no background in the course material). Although we are using C in our class(I code mostly PHP), I knew exactly what the professor was going say word for word in many cases.  It's comforting to know that reading Slashdot daily or programming websites really does provide one with an intimate concept of computer science. Of course, the first few lectures are usually introductory and simple in nature it was really exhilarating to hear a Yale professor repeat what I've known for years. We are going to be using GCC and linux(Suse 9.1), so all those days I've sunk in to playing around with linux distributions are finally going to pay off.

Never have I been so enthusiastic about a class, looking forward to a great semester.
(I'm also taking Math 120 or multi-variable calculus, a lot less enthusiastic about that one but math is one thing it doesn't hurt to learn)