My perspective
So
out of all of the research I have done about my major and its issues I can
safely say that I do know why computer science in unpopular in schools and in
colleges, it’s the image. Now you are confused reading this essay expecting
fancy statistics, and fancy terminology, but what you are getting is just
something that I have observed in movies, TV Shows, Books, and on the internet.
In society no
matter where you go there is always social standings as in how popular you are,
who you are dating, who is your parents, how much money you have and how good
looking you are, in high school this is no different, and because of that there
is the wolf and there is the sheep, the wolf are the athletes or the people in
the yearbook and the people who are in leadership planning school projects and
such, and on the sheep side there are the outcasts, nerds, and the geeks. The “Sheep”
of the school don’t really get into groups are mostly all introverted, and just
want to spend time with themselves; those people are usually into games, anime,
and technology.
The people who
like technology are people who are out of touch in world so to speak they want
to find another to establish their legacy by inventing something revolutionary
and being the hero in the end, and I think that’s why computer science is
looked down upon, it’s the lowest pinnacle of the human, if your not pretty, or
athelic then your not noticed by your peers and friends. Computer science is
the major for people who never had those experiences in high school like prom
and going to football games, keep in mind that I had those experiences when I was
in high school, but that’s because I was different from others, and still loved
computers, think why girls are not going into the computer science field is
because that life is not exciting, they want to relive the days of high school
when everything was glamorous and amazing for them, and to them computer science is nothing much than
just writing a bunch of letter and numbers and something on the screen will pop
up and like magic software is created, but they are dead wrong.
Computer science
can be exciting if you give it to the right person, geniuses only come once in
a generation and since Steve jobs died I think somebody is up for job of
revolutionizing technology as we speak you may think that everything has been
thought of, but on the contrary the possibilities are still endless to this
day, that’s why geeks want to get into this field is because want to feel power
and respect among their peers something that they have never experienced in
high school or in their life mostly, it’s a feeling that they want to find just
by being themselves, and not acting like somebody else.
Another reason why
I think computer science is unpopular is because of the media involved, now
lets look at all TV shows when geeks are portrayed in, and if you see any
cartoon or movie you will see that geeks are usually into Science, Math, or
technology. To me that’s really disgusting
because kids will in their mind look at the horrible portrayal of the nerd or
the geeks and not want to touch computers or not want to get into technology
and right there we could’ve lost a Steve jobs or a bill gates. If computer
science was portrayed like it is now we wouldn’t have this problem the media
and the popular people would look at us in a different light and not really
ridicule us in a way that we feel that we have to prove ourselves to be
accepted into society. But then again it’s our fault as well how we are
portrayed we just want to be accepted into social groups and have fun just like
the everyone else, because we don’t take the initiative into making friends
because we are introverted and shy, not want to try not even a little to integrate
into society.
One minor reason why computer
science is not popular in my opinion is the math involved in programming and
hardware engineering. When students go to their counselor to talk about the
major they get turned off because of the math classes they have to take. In a
way I can understand why people don’t like math, because I hate math as well,
but you need to be a person who loves computers in order to sacrifice and try
to get better at a subject that you had trouble with for years.
I think once
people can get over of all of the reasons of computer science, I think it can
be one of the most popular majors of the century and not only that this is
going to be a necessity to learn CS because technology is rapidly changing
every 3 years who knows what is the next best thing going to be invented? That
is one of the laws of computer science is the fact that its constantly evolving
which means that there will be always a demand in that field which also means
more jobs, so if you your mind into it and try to get better at CS whether is
be Hardware or Software go for it because your going to love it and you can be
the next person that has the revolutionary company and change the world.
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