创业成功人士访谈录 第30期:皮埃尔奥米迪亚(5)

 　　Was there ever any doubt in your mind that computer science was what you wanted to do?

　　你对自己想要从事计算机科学这个行业有过任何的怀疑吗？

　　I always wanted to be involved with computers.

　　我一直想跟计算机打交道。

　　My original kind of career choice, what I thought I was going to do was more computer engineering,

　　从我最初的职业规划来看，我认为我更有可能成为一名电脑工程师，

　　which was, I thought—you know, figure out the hardware and the software and combine the two to learn about computers.

　　我认为，你知道，把软件和硬件结合在一起，弄明白计算机。

　　When I got to college at Tufts I was accepted into the engineering school to do an electrical engineering and computer engineering program.

　　在托弗斯大学上学的时候我曾被选去工程学院，做一个电机工程和一个计算机工程程序。

　　I learned quickly there in my first semester—actually my second—well, I learned very quickly that the engineering program was a little bit too rigorous for me, and I took a class.

　　第一个学期我学得很快一事实上是我的第二个学 期，嗯，我很快明白了工程程序对我来说有一点过于缜密了，我参加了一个课程。

　　I took a chemistry class, and I think that was second semester of freshman¹ year，because it was required for the engineering program, taking chemistry.

　　我参加了一个化学课，我认为那是对于新生来说的第二个学期，因为工程程序要求掌握化学课的内容。

　　I had no interest in chemistry. And I had worked—I worked so hard for that class trying to understand what was going on and study for the test and everything, and did so poorly.

　　我对化学一点都不感兴趣。那门课我很用功，努力理解到底是怎么一回事，努力学习通过考试，但是结果学得并不怎么样。

　　I remember for the mid-term I had studied harder than I had for anything else and got 25 out of 100 on the test.

　　我记得期中考试的时候，我从来没有那么认真过，但是只得了 25分，100分满分。

　　And it was at that point I said, “You know what, this is kind of ridiculous.” So I transferred out of the engineering college and went to liberal arts and just did the pure computer science.

　　所以那时我说：“你知道的，这也太可笑 了。”所以我就离开了工程学院，开始 学习自由艺术，只做计算机科学。

　　What else do you recall from college in terms of influences and life changing experiences or ideas?

　　你大学时代的回忆中，还有什么影响或者改变你人生的经历或者想法？

　　When I was in college I taught myself how to program the Macintosh. A big foundation actually for that was a class.

　　我在大学的时候自学了如何为苹果机编程，很多的基础部分实际上是一门课程。

　　It was actually—so it wasn’t completely self-taught—it was a C programming class called “Data Structures.”

　　事实上那是一门C语言编程课，叫做“数据结构”——所以不能算是完全自学的。

　　It was the big kind of the “weed-out” class for the computer science program.

　　它是计算机科学程序的一门“剔除”类课。

　　I learned how to program C. A great, great professor. Probably one of the best I’ve ever had, and a couple of things stem from that story.

　　我学会了如何编写C语言。老师是一位超级厉害的教授，或许是我遇见过的最好的教授，给我留下了很多回忆。

1 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。