The Future

The Future

Whoever plans to go to the university need to choose their future major. Usually, when people are in High School, they need to choose it. Some people have known since when they were children what they want to be. Other need wait for a long time and other never find it. For this reason,  a lot of people give up in their majors. Usually, a lot of areas have many people who drop out. Computer Science is one of these areas. Computer Science was recently made a major and almost everyone did not know what people really learn in it. Almost everyone thinks that people who work with Computer Science know how to fix or create computers. However it’s not true. Yes, in Computer Science the students learn about hardware, but almost everything that they know about how fix computer is because they conducted research in other sources or extra courses.

Usually, people who make Computer Science their major can work making programs or new research. There are a lot of fields that they can work, many people do not like programs, then they can work in other fields like project of software, databases, and optimization software. In this major, they are able to do almost everything about softwares, but not on hardwares. People usually do not know the difference between software and hardware. To explain, I will use an expression of my professor who said, “Software is what you insult and hardware is what you kick”. It is completely true, softwares are programs on your computer and hardware is the physical computer. It is very important that people understand that. A computer scientist usually work on softwares and rarely on hardwares.

If you want to be a computer scientist you will need to graduate in Computer Science, usually the courses are very difficult, the percentage of dropouts is very high. According with the community Br-Linux the percentage can be more than 90% in some universities. It prove that not everyone knows what they will learn in this course and this is difficult. However, it is important to say that the field of Computer Science is in expansion and has a lot of work to do. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics the first and the second best jobs of the world are in the Computer Science field and the best company to work at is Google. They receive a good wage and do a good job. Also, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the people who graduate in Computer Science have lower level of stress.

Having a major in Computer Science is not easy, you will need to study a lot and it can take some years of your life, but one thing that you can be sure of is, if you make a grade in the class, you will have a good job. If everything in our life was easy, life will not be fun. So, choose your objectives, make your way, be assertive in your choice, never go back and finish your own objectives. It does not matter if it is Computer Science or Medicine, you will need to focus on your own future, choose what you want to do and do it very well.  

Gustavo Goncalves,

March 13, 2014