Comment My experience (Score 1) 1309
Just going from my own experience, intelligence is nice, but motivation and hard work is better. A bit of background... I'm a 20 year old guy with a tested IQ of 143, personality type INTP, who started taking classes at a community college at 13. I got an associates degee in programming at 16 and my GED the next year. But I didn't have a real goal beyond graduating and four years later I've come to realize that I wasted with part-time jobs, taking fun classes and not even trying to define a goal. At the community college, I was taking classes that let me make A s without ever opening the textbook. I didn't need any motivation to do well in what I liked and was interested in. But when I wasn't interested in the class, I failed more times than not, because I had no motivation to succeed.
I'm planning on going to university in the fall so I can find out 1) how smart I am, really 2) how much I like CS 3) if my CS ideas can actually come to fruition. I had the chance to go years earlier but was too afraid to even try. The only dreams I've come up with are to study at MIT, work at Google or program a game or two. All these things could be helped with intelligence, but more importantly motivation and drive.
Right now, I'm currently 3 weeks into unemployment, I have no job offers and will probably have to move back in with family. I haven't figured out a goal yet, but if I hit the bottom like I think I'm going to, I hope it's something I can use to bounce back off of. Think about where you want to go with your education, and whether you'll have goals before you graduate.
I'm planning on going to university in the fall so I can find out 1) how smart I am, really 2) how much I like CS 3) if my CS ideas can actually come to fruition. I had the chance to go years earlier but was too afraid to even try. The only dreams I've come up with are to study at MIT, work at Google or program a game or two. All these things could be helped with intelligence, but more importantly motivation and drive.
Right now, I'm currently 3 weeks into unemployment, I have no job offers and will probably have to move back in with family. I haven't figured out a goal yet, but if I hit the bottom like I think I'm going to, I hope it's something I can use to bounce back off of. Think about where you want to go with your education, and whether you'll have goals before you graduate.
