Ask HN: Which school do you attend?

[jmtame]

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.

[maneesh]

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

[ciscoriordan → maneesh]

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

[Eliezer]

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.

[pclark]

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

[pclark → pclark]

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

[chaostheory]

from Georgia Tech

[PStamatiou → chaostheory]

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

[chaostheory → PStamatiou]

nice =) is the ATDC still there?

[nirmal → chaostheory]

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 :).

[steveplace → chaostheory]

Do you drink your whiskey clear?

[dsims → steveplace]

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

(99-04)

[colinake → chaostheory]

Helluva school.

MGT, Spring 09 - Just over 100 more days!

[wfarr → chaostheory]

Whee current student.

[shollingsw3 → chaostheory]

Current Georgia Tech CS student

[Oompa → shollingsw3]

Same here.

[missingNo → shollingsw3]

CS, '11

[pavehawk → chaostheory]

AE '91, MS AE '92

[Encosia → chaostheory]

'94-'98.

What's the good word?

[azsromej → chaostheory]

Georgia Tech, CmpE 04

[sharksandwich → chaostheory]

CS '04

[Elepsis → chaostheory]

CS, Dec. 2008. :)

[PStamatiou → Elepsis]

how's microsoft going?

[Elepsis → PStamatiou]

Don't start till May. Traveling Kazakhstan -> Moldova -> Estonia until then.

[jhancock → chaostheory]

more GT!!! 1987-1991

[dliu3 → chaostheory]

Current EE student

[_5y6p → chaostheory]

DM MS '08.

[JoshJ → chaostheory]

Georgia Tech CS, graduate soon-ish.

[jaytee_clone]

University of California - Santa Barbara

[jmtame]

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

[siong1987 → jmtame]

I think I met you today in campus.

[jayp → siong1987]

;-)

[njoubert → jayp]

I just got into the CS Ph.D. program here!

[mgornick → jmtame]

Same here. UIUC

[davekell]

Georgia Tech alum

[sidmitra]

Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Hmm, no one here from IITs i guess.

[tallanvor → sidmitra]

Illinois Institute of Technology - CPE '02

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

[mdolon]

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

[breck → mdolon]

Duke

[aofstad → breck]

same here. GTHC.

[mncaudill → mdolon]

Same here. BS CompSci '06.

[javert → mdolon]

Me too. CS major.

[CalmQuiet]

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?

[Rod]

University of California - Santa Barbara

[hbien]

University of California, San Diego (recently graduated though)

[teuobk]

Stanford University

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

[sebg]

MIT

[Staylo]

Boston University '07

[azanar → Staylo]

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

[rlm]

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

[kristiandupont → rlm]

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

[dice]

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.

[misterbwong → dice]

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

[male_salmon → dice]

second

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

[cheez80 → dice]

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

[sirsean]

The University of Chicago.

[cbetz → sirsean]

CS and Econ Alum here (graduated in 2006).

[iseff → sirsean]

Graduated in '06.

[tokenadult]

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

[anoved]

Hard Knocks.

[anc2020]

University of York, UK

[pmjordan → anc2020]

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

[streety → pmjordan]

Also graduated in 2006 from York.

Now moved to Edinburgh for MSc/PhD.

[dotpavan]

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

[kobs]

University of Florida

[lbrandy → kobs]

UF Alum.

[dfranke → kobs]

BS Math + CS, 2007.

[endtwist]

Washington University in St. Louis

[ice_man]

University of Toronto (graduated)

[boorad]

Cornell University

[boorad → boorad]

hopefully one of those upvotes is pg

[pg → boorad]

Yep. Class of 86.

[peregrine]

Milwaukee School of Engineering

[rscott]

Purdue University

[gommm]

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...

[utsmokingaces]

The University of Texas

[abossy → utsmokingaces]

Which year?

I'm UT CS BS, '08.

[utsmokingaces → abossy]

'09 Finance / MIS

[PieSquared]

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?

[theantidote → PieSquared]

Close: I'm graduated from B-CC.

[PieSquared → theantidote]

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

[omarish]

University of Virginia

[breily → omarish]

Nice - doing CS here now

[schleyfox → omarish]

BA CS, Class of 2012

[omarish → schleyfox]

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

[prakash]

Rutgers

[andreyf → prakash]

RU CS '04-'08

[sjs382]

Penn State

[theantidote → sjs382]

PSU here too!

[rickharrison → sjs382]

i go to penn state as well

[shedd → rickharrison]

PSU alum ('07)

[callmeed]

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

[frisco]

Duke, BSE Biomedical Engineering (Exp. 2011)

[drinian → frisco]

BA History/Computer Science, 2006

[pgebhard → frisco]

Duke, BSE (ECE & CS) '07

[davidcummings → frisco]

Duke, BS Econ 2002

[mikeytown2]

from University Of Southern California (USC)

[tlrobinson → mikeytown2]

I graduated from USC in '07. Fight on!

[stephenbez]

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

[njoubert → stephenbez]

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!!!)

[chris11]

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

[dice → chris11]

Is the song by The Offspring at all related?

[ewiethoff]

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

[apgwoz]

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

[travisjeffery]

University of Toronto -- Undergrad.

[amethyst]

Rochester Institute of Technology.

[mikexstudios]

California Institute of Technology

[psyklic → mikexstudios]

third!

[newt0311 → mikexstudios]

second.

[mikexstudios → newt0311]

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

[dandelany]

University of Colorado at Boulder

[zitterbewegung]

University of Illinois at Chicago

[zitterbewegung → zitterbewegung]

I am studying computer science as an engineer.

[njoubert]

University of California Berkeley

[siong1987 → njoubert]

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

[CalmQuiet → njoubert]

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

[sgrove → njoubert]

Same here.

[fgimenez → sgrove]

Ditto! Soda Hall is my home.

[_5y6p → fgimenez]

You mean The Dungeon? ;)

[treo]

TU Darmstadt

[cx01 → treo]

Me too. Nice to see a fellow here!

[derwiki]

Case Western Reserve University

[Jebdm]

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

[johnswamps → Jebdm]

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

[Jebdm → johnswamps]

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

What year?

[steveplace]

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

[enra]

University of Vaasa, Finland

[Ras_ → enra]

Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Finland

[meqif]

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

[daveambrose]

Georgetown University, '07

[daveambrose → daveambrose]

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

[unalone]

The College of New Jersey.

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

[ScottWhigham]

Berklee College of Music

[tshaddox]

Missouri State University (previously Southwest Missouri State)

[ie_khing]

Maranatha Christian University, Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

[ttam]

ISEL (Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Lisboa) - Portugal

[dmarques1]

Babson College alumnus

[arthurk]

University of Applied Sciences and Arts Dortmund, Germany.

[r11t]

Louisiana Tech University.

Anyone else attending school in Louisiana?

[core77]

Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, Sweden

[gintas]

Vilnius University

[skalpelis → gintas]

University of Latvia

[pkrumins → skalpelis]

i graduated in 2008 :)

[matttah]

Tufts University

[adatta02 → matttah]

Go Jumbos!

[herdrick]

Washington State + University of Washington

[manny]

State University of New York at Stony Brook

[casta]

Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca

[pifish]

Australian National University, Canberra

[a-priori]

University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)

[jaydub]

University of Maryland, College Park

[rsayers]

University of Southern Mississippi.

[ensignavenger]

Ozarks Technical Community College

[jcady]

Rochester Institute of Technology.

[incomethax]

University of Wisconsin - Madison

[bigbang]

U. of Arizona, Tucson (graduated)

[bmac]

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

[elviejo]

ITESM Campus Zacatecas (Mexico)

[neuromanta]

University of Miskolc, Hungary

[bd]

EPFL (graduate school alum)

[chris_l]

Cambridge University (alum)

[dangrover]

Northeastern University :(

[kylec → dangrover]

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.

[speek → dangrover]

Hey,

What's so bad about Northeastern?

[almost]

University of Sussex, UK

[trefn]

Arizona State University

[rokhayakebe → trefn]

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.

[trefn → rokhayakebe]

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.

[Raphael]

University of Washington

[brand → Raphael]

Same here.

[timcederman]

University of Queensland

[davo11 → timcederman]

+1 (alumni)

[furyg3]

University of Amsterdam

[Shamiq]

Northwestern University

[steffanwilliams]

Exeter University, UK.

[sammcd]

University of Kentucky

[jonas_b]

Gothenburg Uni, Sweden

[infiniteloop]

Santa Clara University

[transburgh]

Ohio State University

[harpastum]

Marquette University

[pkrumins]

University of Latvia

[atestu]

Epita, Paris, France

[jasonlbaptiste]

University of Miami

[Javache]

Ghent University

[riahi]

Emory University

[showerst]

Mizzou, 02-06

[amjith]

Univ of Utah

[jgranby]

Durham

[yesimahuman]

Wisconsin

[twak]

Glasgow

[evilneanderthal]

drexel

[GrandMasterBirt]

Brooklyn College -- Brooklyn, NY

[ddemchuk]

San Diego State