Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College Alums

Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by arjunnarayan on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:00PM (#4901744)

2010 (my year) was about 7-10 I believe. And about half of those were double majors.

Edit: 13 majors, of which at least 10 were double majors (including me and Dave below).

Edit 2: Good grief. The whole lot on HN. Do any of us Ephs get any work done?

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by svmegatron on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:50PM (#4901960)

Oh hi, class of 2001 here, Ephs represent! & get off my lawn etc etc etc.

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by davmre on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:10PM (#4901791)

We actually had 13 CS majors in 2010: http://www.cs.williams.edu/people/alumni-directory/. That went up to 20 majors in the class of 2011, so the gradient is positive!

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by ssrubin on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:24PM (#4901854)

Woo 2011 Williams CS. Ok, that's my one comment on HN for the year.

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by dewitt on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:27PM (#4901867)

Don't forget to send me your resumes, everyone: [email protected]. : )

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by nmh on Monday December 10, 2012 @11:06PM (#4902966)

dammit Dewitt - stop stealing all the good ones with your fancy Google.com address...

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by cbrauchli on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:16PM (#4902390)

Williams CS represent

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by goephs on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:25PM (#4902215)

Class of 2015 here! We have record numbers signed up for Algorithms in the spring, something like 30-40 and a lot of those people are planning to major.

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by mynameishere on Monday December 10, 2012 @06:17PM (#4902156)

How can they possibly have a whole department with so few students? Is it just math professors doubling up by teaching CS?

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by davmre on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:31PM (#4902440)

It's a real department with seven profs. Lots of non-majors take CS classes, but even so, class sizes are relatively small (usually in the 10 to 30 range). That's really one of the major selling points for the LAC model of education.

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by dewitt on Monday December 10, 2012 @07:30PM (#4902437)

That is a lot of Ephs on HN! I've created a new Google+ community for current students, alumni, and faculty of the Williams College CS program:

https://plus.google.com/communities/103167291529744829090

Please ask for an invite if that's you.

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Re:Impact of Major on Career Path for 15600 Williams College... by andyjsong on Monday December 10, 2012 @05:50PM (#4901963)

Does Williams have an active ACM/CS club on campus?

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