Ask HN: Which school do you attend?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=437770

by jmtame • 18 years ago

38 192 18 years ago

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I'm always interested in seeing who from HN goes to my school. Feel free to chime in and name your school, see who else from HN is going there too.

jmtame• 18 years ago

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

siong19872• 18 years ago

I think I met you today in campus.

jayp• 18 years ago

;-)

mgornick• 18 years ago

Same here. UIUC

jaytee_clone• 18 years ago

University of California - Santa Barbara

rscott• 18 years ago

Purdue University

mikexstudios2• 18 years ago

California Institute of Technology

newt0311• 18 years ago

second.

mikexstudios2• 18 years ago

Oh damn. I looked you up on donut, and I live right down the hall from you in Marks (117) :).

psyklic• 18 years ago

third!

infiniteloop• 18 years ago

Santa Clara University

riahi• 18 years ago

Emory University

Rod• 18 years ago

University of California - Santa Barbara

mdolon• 18 years ago

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

breck• 18 years ago

Duke

aofstad• 18 years ago

same here. GTHC.

mncaudill• 18 years ago

Same here. BS CompSci '06.

javert• 18 years ago

Me too. CS major.

teuobk• 18 years ago

Stanford University

(or rather, I went there until I graduated a few weeks ago)

evilneanderthal• 18 years ago

drexel

hbien• 18 years ago

University of California, San Diego (recently graduated though)

Jebdm2• 18 years ago

Bard College at Simon's Rock (currently, will be transferring after this semester)

johnswamps• 18 years ago

Wow, you don't see Rockers too often. I'm an alum.

Jebdm2• 18 years ago

Yeah, that's very true. Usually, it's "where's that?"

What year?

maneesh• 18 years ago

Stanford undergrad, although I am taking 2 years off to work on startups/travel the world in south america, asia, europe, etc.

ciscoriordan• 18 years ago

Stanford undergrad as well. Do you have a way to contact you?

sjs382• 18 years ago

Penn State

rickharrison• 18 years ago

i go to penn state as well

shedd• 18 years ago

PSU alum ('07)

theantidote2• 18 years ago

PSU here too!

timcederman• 18 years ago

University of Queensland

davo11• 18 years ago

+1 (alumni)

chris11• 18 years ago

Walla Walla University -small denominational school with under 2k students. Graduates about 25 engineers a year.

dice2• 18 years ago

Is the song by The Offspring at all related?

dice2• 18 years ago

I no longer attend school, but when I did it was at the University of California at Irvine.

Just down the street from Blizzard, for all you WOW players.

cheez80• 18 years ago

me too, but i'm on a leave of absence, trying to get stuff off the ground.

male_salmon• 18 years ago

second

Blizzard's no longer in the research park though. They've moved to a complex near the Spectrum.

misterbwong• 18 years ago

Also an anteater alum. I was beginning to think that there weren't any other UCI representatives here!

chaostheory2• 18 years ago

from Georgia Tech

PStamatiou2• 18 years ago

GT alum here (dec 08) http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=2356&ga=4

chaostheory2• 18 years ago

nice =) is the ATDC still there?

jhancock• 18 years ago

more GT!!! 1987-1991

steveplace2• 18 years ago

Do you drink your whiskey clear?

dsims• 18 years ago

whiskey = (fellow == jolly_good) ? clear : piss_on_em;

(99-04)

Encosia• 18 years ago

'94-'98.

What's the good word?

colinake• 18 years ago

Helluva school.

MGT, Spring 09 - Just over 100 more days!

wfarr• 18 years ago

Whee current student.

sharksandwich• 18 years ago

CS '04

ampcoder• 18 years ago

Current Georgia Tech CS student

Oompa• 18 years ago

Same here.

missingNo• 18 years ago

CS, '11

walterk2• 18 years ago

DM MS '08.

pavehawk• 18 years ago

AE '91, MS AE '92

Elepsis2• 18 years ago

CS, Dec. 2008. :)

PStamatiou2• 18 years ago

how's microsoft going?

dliu3• 18 years ago

Current EE student

nirmal• 18 years ago

BS and MS in Comp. Sci already and working on my Ph.D.

The MS was more of a pit stop than a final destination :).

azsromej• 18 years ago

Georgia Tech, CmpE 04

JoshJ• 18 years ago

Georgia Tech CS, graduate soon-ish.

stephenbez• 18 years ago

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

njoubert3• 18 years ago

How do you like it? And are you a CS major? I'm considering coming here for a Ph.D. (just heard I've been admitted!!!)

showerst• 18 years ago

Mizzou, 02-06

gintas• 18 years ago

Vilnius University

skalpelis• 18 years ago

University of Latvia

pkrumins2• 18 years ago

i graduated in 2008 :)

njoubert3• 18 years ago

University of California Berkeley

sgrove• 18 years ago

Same here.

fgimenez• 18 years ago

Ditto! Soda Hall is my home.

CalmQuiet2• 18 years ago

Yah (alum). Majored in psychology, if you can believe it (early Pleistocene Era: Programmed in Fortran, if anyone has ever heard of that;) ).

siong19872• 18 years ago

So, you are coming to UIUC very soon? http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jayp < He definitely can help you.

amjith• 18 years ago

Univ of Utah

pifish• 18 years ago

Australian National University, Canberra

core77• 18 years ago

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

Raphael• 18 years ago

University of Washington

brand• 18 years ago

Same here.

dangrover• 18 years ago

Northeastern University :(

speek• 18 years ago

Hey,

What's so bad about Northeastern?

kylec• 18 years ago

Why the sad face? If I knew that a significant portion of the PLT Scheme developers were at NEU back when I was applying to colleges, I would have seriously considered going there.

kobs• 18 years ago

University of Florida

lbrandy• 18 years ago

UF Alum.

dfranke• 18 years ago

BS Math + CS, 2007.

derwiki• 18 years ago

Case Western Reserve University

endtwist• 18 years ago

Washington University in St. Louis

ice_man• 18 years ago

University of Toronto (graduated)

Eliezer• 18 years ago

Hillel Torah North Suburban Day School (graduated)

Oh, and I once took a linear algebra class at Northwestern University, but it didn't take and later I had to reteach myself from scratch.

pclark2• 18 years ago

APU - www.anglia.ac.uk - a 3rd rate polytechnic university in the UK ;)

pclark2• 18 years ago

(wonder why this was upvoted, are there /other/ APU users out there?! seems rather unlikely :/)

ScottWhigham• 18 years ago

Berklee College of Music

travisjeffery• 18 years ago

University of Toronto -- Undergrad.

casta• 18 years ago

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

enra• 18 years ago

University of Vaasa, Finland

Ras_• 18 years ago

Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

mikeytown2• 18 years ago

from University Of Southern California (USC)

tlrobinson• 18 years ago

I graduated from USC in '07. Fight on!

bigbang• 18 years ago

U. of Arizona, Tucson (graduated)

atestu• 18 years ago

Epita, Paris, France

anc2020• 18 years ago

University of York, UK

pmjordan• 18 years ago

Well, I'm no longer a student, but I graduated from York in 2006.

streety• 18 years ago

Also graduated in 2006 from York.

Now moved to Edinburgh for MSc/PhD.

dotpavan• 18 years ago

UNM, surprisingly had to point that NM was part of US! keyword 'Mexico' makes ppl jump to conclusions..

treo• 18 years ago

TU Darmstadt

cx01• 18 years ago

Me too. Nice to see a fellow here!

jonas_b• 18 years ago

Gothenburg Uni, Sweden

meqif• 18 years ago

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia - Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

tokenadult• 18 years ago

Long since graduated. Attended University of Minnesota, where oldest son now attends as a dual-enrollment "eleventh grader."

zitterbewegung2• 18 years ago

University of Illinois at Chicago

zitterbewegung2• 18 years ago

I am studying computer science as an engineer.

prakash• 18 years ago

Rutgers

andreyf• 18 years ago

RU CS '04-'08

dmarques1• 18 years ago

Babson College alumnus

CalmQuiet2• 18 years ago

What about University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)? My graduate school. Anyone remember when they built their own campus-wide system - wasn't it a rather unique hardware - early Amdahl or something?

neuromanta• 18 years ago

University of Miskolc, Hungary

chris_l• 18 years ago

Cambridge University (alum)

sammcd• 18 years ago

University of Kentucky

PieSquared2• 18 years ago

Montgomery Blair High School in Silver Spring, Maryland.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone at HN was from there too... we have quite a number of computer-interested people. Anyone?

theantidote2• 18 years ago

Close: I'm graduated from B-CC.

PieSquared2• 18 years ago

Do you know of any meeting groups around here? I'd love to meet a few fellow HNers.

nuclear_eclipse• 18 years ago

Rochester Institute of Technology.

steveplace2• 18 years ago

University of Central Florida. They paid me the most to go to their school ;)

trefn2• 18 years ago

Arizona State University

rokhayakebe• 18 years ago

What's the startup environment like in Phoenix? I have lived here for the past few months but it does not seem to have the vibe.

trefn2• 18 years ago

To be honest I haven't seen much. I've been abroad lately, but in my first couple of years I heard very little.

I haven't lived in a startup hub, so I can't really give a valid comparison.

pkrumins2• 18 years ago

University of Latvia

rsayers• 18 years ago

University of Southern Mississippi.

rlm• 18 years ago

University of Copenhagen, Department of Computer Science (called "DIKU", an abbreviation of "Datalogisk Institut, Københavns Universitet").

kristiandupont• 18 years ago

Me too, though I don't really go there anymore.

matttah• 18 years ago

Tufts University

adatta02• 18 years ago

Go Jumbos!

sebg• 18 years ago

MIT

Staylo• 18 years ago

Boston University '07

azanar• 18 years ago

Nice. I'm not the only one from there. BU '04.

utsmokingaces2• 18 years ago

The University of Texas

abossy• 18 years ago

Which year?

I'm UT CS BS, '08.

utsmokingaces2• 18 years ago

'09 Finance / MIS

sirsean• 18 years ago

The University of Chicago.

iseff• 18 years ago

Graduated in '06.

cbetz• 18 years ago

CS and Econ Alum here (graduated in 2006).

daveambrose2• 18 years ago

Georgetown University, '07

daveambrose2• 18 years ago

Also, if there are any Hoyas here, please email me. I'd love to connect.

a-priori• 18 years ago

University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)

jasonlbaptiste• 18 years ago

University of Miami

Shamiq• 18 years ago

Northwestern University

arthurk• 18 years ago

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany.

omarish2• 18 years ago

University of Virginia

breily• 18 years ago

Nice - doing CS here now

schleyfox• 18 years ago

BA CS, Class of 2012

omarish2• 18 years ago

very nice. ping me some time -- omarish@ the school we go to .edu.

bd• 18 years ago

EPFL (graduate school alum)

GrandMasterBirt• 18 years ago

Brooklyn College -- Brooklyn, NY

gommm• 18 years ago

INSA of Rennes in France (National Institute of Applied Science), graduated 2005 + Rochester Institute of Technology for 6 month as an exchange student

The courses between both were pretty different and kind of complementary...

peregrine• 18 years ago

Milwaukee School of Engineering

twak• 18 years ago

Glasgow

jcady• 18 years ago

Rochester Institute of Technology.

elviejo• 18 years ago

ITESM Campus Zacatecas (Mexico)

Javache• 18 years ago

Ghent University

davekell• 18 years ago

Georgia Tech alum

furyg3• 18 years ago

University of Amsterdam

unalone• 18 years ago

The College of New Jersey.

Not too impressive after some of the names listed here. :-/

yesimahuman• 18 years ago

Wisconsin

almost• 18 years ago

University of Sussex, UK

frisco• 18 years ago

Duke, BSE Biomedical Engineering (Exp. 2011)

drinian• 18 years ago

BA History/Computer Science, 2006

davidcummings• 18 years ago

Duke, BS Econ 2002

pgebhard• 18 years ago

Duke, BSE (ECE & CS) '07

boorad2• 18 years ago

Cornell University

boorad2• 18 years ago

hopefully one of those upvotes is pg

pg• 18 years ago

Yep. Class of 86.

incomethax• 18 years ago

University of Wisconsin - Madison

anoved• 18 years ago

Hard Knocks.

baddox• 18 years ago

Missouri State University (previously Southwest Missouri State)

harpastum• 18 years ago

Marquette University

sidmitra• 18 years ago

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Hmm, no one here from IITs i guess.

tallanvor• 18 years ago

Illinois Institute of Technology - CPE '02

Maybe not one of the IITs you were thinking of, though.

jgranby• 18 years ago

Durham

apgwoz• 18 years ago

Graduated from Temple University, and am currently auditing classes at the University of Pennsylvania.

ddemchuk• 18 years ago

San Diego State

manny• 18 years ago

State University of New York at Stony Brook

callmeed• 18 years ago

Cal Poly SLO ... CS (left after jr. year in '00)

ensignavenger• 18 years ago

Ozarks Technical Community College

bmac• 18 years ago

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

ttam• 18 years ago

ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa) - Portugal

dandelany• 18 years ago

University of Colorado at Boulder

r11t• 18 years ago

Louisiana Tech University.

Anyone else attending school in Louisiana?

steffanwilliams• 18 years ago

Exeter University, UK.

jaydub• 18 years ago

University of Maryland, College Park

transburgh• 18 years ago

Ohio State University

herdrick• 18 years ago

Washington State + University of Washington

ie_khing• 17 years ago

Maranatha Christian University, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

ewiethoff• 17 years ago

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Also Northwestern University and Bethel Theological Seminary.

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