stevengharms

I was educated at The University of Texas at Austin.

I remember the day I chose a major. I sat there with the great big paper course guide ( yes you young’ns, they used to print them every year, and you had to register by touch-tone phone! ). I went down the listing of majors with my dad.

“Sciences?”

Nope.

“Architecture?”

Nope.

“Mathema”

No!

“Engineering?”

Nuh-uh.

Eventually we came out with three candidates: MIS, CS, and Philosophy.

Gambling on the fact that MIS offered the most adaptable skillset ( you could fall to finance or accounting ) or you could slide to CS, MIS was the focus.

Thus I earned my BBA in Management Information Systems (MIS) at the McCombs Business School.

Yet door #3 , the philosophy degree haunted me after my first year and I decided to get a double major. So I wound up earning a BA in Philosophy.

I remember when I was a senior in High school I read Atlas Shrugged and the heroes all majored in physics and philosophy. I thought that I should emulate that set-up. As it happens, I believe that I effectively did the modern version of that.

I also had the great fortune to spend a year abroad at Rijksuniversiteit Leiden: Leiden, The Netherlands. It was there that I learned some excellent study habits, learned how to write philosophy, and learned a great deal about the European conception of scientific evolution. It was great focusing on Dutch and Philosophy all the time.

These trajectories are fairly essential to my being and may be seen in my rather eclectic work choices.