The other day, I was on a group chat with one of my older friends from my major (ISC). We were talking about if I should go and play Overwatch with them or if I should study for my Advance Programming course exam. His girlfriend (who's also an ISC, and a friend of mine) told me that I shouldn't worry too much, because the exam would not be hard, and then my friend told her: but remember, they are the generation that decided not to code.
"What was he talking about?" You may ask yourself. Well, my class (2014-2018) was the biggest one since they re-oppened ISC in Campus Guadalajara. We were around 60 people and we were the half of the general population of ISC. Right now, we are 30-40 (if you include all the people from other generations who are taking less or more courses) and, it's true. We don't like to code.
It is bad to generalize. Of course there are A LOT of those 35 people who enjoy coding. From the top of my head I can think of 10 people who had told me "I enjoy coding", but at the same time I can tell you 10 more who have tell me the opposite. So you may ask yourself now "If these people don't like coding, what are they doing studying ISC? CODING IS THE BASE OF EVERYTHING!".
Well, don't get me wrong, we KNOW how to code, but we don't want to do it. It's like a doctor who doesn't like to do surgery. He/She knows how to perform one, but doesn't necessarily want to do one. There are many areas where a engineer can work, and even if coding looks like the base of everything, perhaps it's not.
This conversation with my friend got me thinking how much we put labels on each other. We are not only ISC guys anymore, we are "The ISC guys who don't like to code" and that just feels unnecessary and inaccurate.
We should appreciate all people, not just by what do they like or not. Our major is already one with the most labels on it, at least we should take those out from our inner circle to get to know everyone on ISC better.
I agree with you. I mean, it's not like we can't code, it goes more along the lines of what the future holds for us. At least in my opinion, I don't see myself as someone who can be in front of a computer for a lot of hours just writing code, by myself, isolated from the rest of the word. I need to go out, to talk, to run. Perhaps, as you said, we've been labeled, but I think it's time we change that and show the world that ISC is not all about code.
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