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MOlt CS atudenta admit that the financial benefits
UIOCiatecl with tbia field attracted them to thia major.
BIOWD olaiml, "We're all in it for the moll8)'." But, be
quickly adcl8, "Naturally, we lib it too. I think that CS
would have been my fiDt choice mn if the money wun't
10 qreat. In hiqh aohool, I wu one of those weirdoa who
IJ)8nt eiqht to ten houn a day at the computer center."
Dwayne Broome, a Troy, Idaho, sophomore, decided
to atudy oomputen becaUH he found EE difficult. "I like
oomputen," he ezplainecl, "they challenge me. It makes
me feel qreat when leolve a problem by myself and pua
it onto eomeone e._ to WMt. Besides, it pays well."
Althou9h oomputen are popular, especially with
yoaaver people, eome people still feu that the computer
indica-. that Biq Brother is just around the comer.
How.nr, Thomaa clailu that thia is not the cue. "ComputeD
will never replace people," he argued. "Nor will
tM, coauaUDicate your tdeu to IOID80D8 elae - they help
0DJ, to clarify tho. ideu. n
Aa b BiQ Brother ... Well? Whatever we may feel about
oompm.rt- be it feu, f89l81, or ucitement - we best
v-t ued to them. Thomas claims, "Given the fact that
eo....thla9 is new, people prefer to condemn it or forc;ret
it. The JOQD9 people lib computen; they'll change the
way older people NQard them."
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