Classes resumed this week; I'm finally done with the core classes required for everyone. My favorite core class was (surprisingly for a recovering humanities major/non-math fan like me) Algorithms. I also enjoyed Programming Languages. Operating Systems was worth learning but not quite my cup of tea, as it turns out. I suppose I just like the nice, clean theoretical stuff more than the mess of implementation. (Maybe because what I do at work has so much real-world mess and compromise to it.)

This semester I'm taking Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, two electives that are obviously closely related. These are pretty much the whole reason I signed up for this degree, so I certainly hope I like them. But when I'm done I will still have to take many more classes to finish the degree, so I can try plenty of other subjects.