-: I think no student can ever go wrong
with taking computer science courses.
I would suggest to any student, no matter what your passion,
if your passion is abstract art and sort of modern poetry,
I would still suggest taking
some software engineer computer science courses.
I think software is, it's the now and the future,
and having those skills,
no matter what your passion is, will benefit you.
If you wanna be a data scientist,
take the computer science courses,
take the math courses, take the stats courses.
Make sure your technical foundation is solid,
and beyond that, do what interests you.
If you love sports, then build a model
that predicts, you know, the points
gonna be scored in a basketball game.
If you love art, build a model
that's gonna predict the sale price of a piece of art.
If you like music, build a model
that tries to recommend songs
based on peoples' listening preferences.
Whatever your passion is, aside from the technical work,
just try to find synergies and do something
that combines your passions.
If it's something you're interested in,
you're gonna enjoy doing it more.
If you enjoy doing it more, you're gonna put in more hours,
and more effort, and the more hours and effort you put in,
the better your results are gonna be,
and so having something you're interested in is so critical,
and it just doesn't really matter what it is,
because someone else is gonna find value in that,
just be really good at it.
There are so many resources
that are available online for free,
there's so many online learning opportunities
that it really just takes
a bit of proactivity amongst the students.
A few online searches, maybe reach out to a few people
for recommendations, but today, there's almost no ceiling
on the amount of skills a student can gain
combining the resources offered at Penn State
and the resources that are made available online,
just needs some, you just need the energy
and the sort of wherewithal to find it and get it done.