Going to UTD was a wonderful experience that I will never forget. I learned so much about the school, its facilities, and its classes. Not only did I learn about the school but also about the students who attend it as well. The trip was well worth missing one day of school and the story is a memorable one. .
Arriving at school that Friday, as I do every weekday, I went to my 5th period class for roughly 45 minutes. From there I went to F123 (Bakerland) to wait for the bus. Once it came we boarded, off to the University of Texas at Dallas. The destination in particular was UTD extensive and very impressive Engineering and Computer Science Department. After, it seemed, a century before we finally got there. Our first stop was the foyer of the "old" engineering building. After meeting with the Assistant Dean we headed over to the new building where we sat in a brand new room. There, a gentlemanly Englishmen lectured to us on possible undergrad degrees we could choose and classes we had to take for them. The four possible BS degrees you could receive were EE (Electrical Engineering), TE (Telecommunications Engineering), CS (Computer Science), or SE (Software Engineering). Obviously with all this engineering and computer stuff most of the courses we had to take were math related (not a problem). Some of these math classes included: Calculus I and II, Probability and Statistics, Linear Algebra, and a curiously named course, Automata Theory. Also with these classes you would also have to take regular classes like English, Gov., Econ., and numerous other boring classes that we will (or already had) suffer through. After listening in on the Professor's talk of a few interesting "routine" math problems we will see taking some of these courses we went to an adjacent classroom.
In the classroom we were met by a very enthusiastic and spirited grad student whose dream was to create an assortment of programs and team of robots to compete in the World by 2050.
