🚀 go-pugleaf

blasirs@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Robert_S Blasi) wrote:
>	But know this: if I was a CS major, instead of an EE,
>or at least had some knowledge of common algorithms, I'd be at the
>Berkeley ACM competition tomorrow, programming by the sweat of my brow
>in the desperate hope of making the local team, and going to Philly for
>nationals, if for no other reason than to show out-of-towners how to
>have a good time.

Actually, even though you post from UC Berkeley, there is an important
step between the local and the national final (I should know that.. :-()
Three of us formed a team that won the local competition at Sac State
two consecutive years, and one year we got _this close_: === in the
Northern Cal/Oregon/Washington regional one to attent the national
final.  If it hadn't been for three schools (UC Berkeley, U. Washinton,
Stanford Univ) we would have been there. :-(

(Story of my life.  Same thing happened in second grade in a high school
math competition in Norway:  One more correct answer, and I would be in
the international final.. :-(  I think I will form some kind of protest
organization)

If you were to attend the competition at Berkeley, you would basically
have to compete against Rain Man - type people.  Those guys are weird, I
am telling you.  But at least you get good pizza while it lasts.