The path of discovery and computing

I believe I am not alone when I say that for the longest time, I didn’t really know what I would be when I grew up. Bunch of different career and study possibilities presented themselves, but nothing ever felt that interesting for me. Though I had always been interested in computers and creating, the idea to study information processing science was sparked by a singular optional lecture I attended in upper secondary school. The lecture wasn’t anything serious or academic, but a rather relaxed presentation held by a former student in my school. Even though the academic side of information processing was quite brief alongside the funny stories, it was enough to get me interested and do my own research. And as you may be able to guess from this post, I am currently studying information processing science.

 

The name information processing science can be a bit misleading, since it can make people think of some person going through and analyzing huge amounts of data and statistics. The more universal name for my field of study would be computer science, which directs people’s minds to, well, computing, which is what I study.

 

That isn’t to say that I have never gone through data and statistics. I did a lot of that when doing a school project with a classmate of mine. We were given a task to come up with a subject we wanted to research and then to create inquiries for other people to answer to. We were ambitious and ended up making inquiries for several different classes in different age groups. We even made the same inquiries in English and sent them to students abroad. The ambitious projects ended up being quite painful because in the end we had to create dozens upon dozens of statistics by hand based on the data we research and then show our research to the rest of the class. Looking back now I am proud of the work I did during the project, since it taught me data processing and communication and even improved my English skills.

 

My English is something I’m always aiming to improve. Whether it’s writing or speaking, grammar or vocabulary, I am happy to learn more. Though writing blogs is new to me, I am hoping that it will offer me yet another opportunity to become better user of the English language.