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2002
SPRING
dean's list
Intro to Jazz
Public Speaking
lab Public Speaking
Adv Data Structures
Western Civ Since 1500
FALL
Intro to Linguistics
Operating Systems
lab Operating Systems
Software Engineering
lab Software Engineering
2003
SPRING
dean's list
Calculus III
American Government
Computer System Security
Automata, Lang. & Computation
FALL
dean's list
Database Design
Spanish I
Spanish Conversation I
Fault-Tolerant Systems
Societal Issues (in Computation)
2004
SPRING
Numerical Analysis
Computer Networks
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Tom earned a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science last week from California State University at Northridge. He started his degree work
30 years ago at Georgia Tech, but left school early to work.
He returned to university in 2002. For 2.5 years, he devoted nights and weekends and many early mornings to his studies, and worked to earn extra credit whenever possible; he explained what he'd learned and discussed
his course work while we cycled around the Rose Bowl, then afterwards invited
more discussion over breakfast, including quizzes on Spanish vocabulary words he'd copied onto
3x5 cards, shuffling words he'd mastered to the bottom of the deck. In every class, on every assignment, he worked not only to succeed, but to win. His goal, stated repeatedly with relish, was utter domination. He is Tom Chappell!
His reward? A fine degree, a 4.0 GPA throughout those 2.5 years—and the department award for Distinguished Student. He's already working on his Master's.
Congratulations, Tom!
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