-: Sure, hi, my name is David Clausen and I'm the director
of data science at Facebook for infrastructure.
I would suggest people take a class, one of the great things
about Pomona college and one of the things I really loved
about it was the opportunity to take little courses
here and there way outside of any discipline,
with zero connection to what I wanted to do.
Take a computer science course.
Go take an energy systems course.
Try and understand, something way outside your comfort zone.
Like there's a lot of opportunities here to do that,
and there are great teachers who can take
someone who's not an expert in this stuff and really
in a semester get them a solid foundation there.
And then you can use those skills of learning new
technology domains to teach yourself this stuff as it comes
along and it is pertinent to whatever your interests are.