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I went to college.
我上大學了
I went to University of Missouri-Rolla initially.
我最初去了密蘇里大學羅拉分校
I was deciding between political science
我那時要在政治學和
at the time and computer
計算機科學
science because
中做出選擇，因為
I have always been fascinated by cities and at
我一直為城市著迷
some point want to maybe potentially go into government
我潛意識里有些想去政府工作
I'm still not quite sure if I have more effect
我并不確定我以后在
there or more effect in programming.
政治上更有成就還是在編程上更有成就
But I went away from political science
但我放棄了政治學
because I realized
因為我意識到
that there are a lot of parallels between what you do
在政界和在政府里
in politics and what you do in government and writing
編制政策和法律
policy and laws and what you do in programming.
和編程雖然非常相似
But the difference is the time scale.
但是不同的是時間段
So, I could write a policy as a senator or as a mayor
我可以作為一個參議院或是市長擬定一個政策
and I could see the effect maybe in eight years.
我可能在8年后才會看到效果
But I could write that same policy
但我可以寫出同樣的政策
and write a simulator
并且為之編寫出一個模擬環境
around it and write populations around it and I could
和一些模擬人群
see that effect instantly with a computer.
我就可以立即在電腦上看到結果
So, I went down the computer science route.
所以我選擇了計算機科學這條路
