I went to college.
我上大学了
I went to University of Missouri-Rolla initially.
我最初去了密苏里大学罗拉分校
I was deciding between political science
我那时要在政治学和
at the time and computer
计算机科学
science because
中做出选择，因为
I have always been fascinated by cities and at
我一直为城市着迷
some point want to maybe potentially go into government
我潜意识里有些想去政府工作
I'm still not quite sure if I have more effect
我并不确定我以后在
there or more effect in programming.
政治上更有成就还是在编程上更有成就
But I went away from political science
但我放弃了政治学
because I realized
因为我意识到
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
编制政策和法律
policy and laws and what you do in programming.
和编程虽然非常相似
But the difference is the time scale.
但是不同的是时间段
So, I could write a policy as a senator or as a mayor
我可以作为一个参议院或是市长拟定一个政策
and I could see the effect maybe in eight years.
我可能在8年后才会看到效果
But I could write that same policy
但我可以写出同样的政策
and write a simulator
并且为之编写出一个模拟环境
around it and write populations around it and I could
和一些模拟人群
see that effect instantly with a computer.
我就可以立即在电脑上看到结果
So, I went down the computer science route.
所以我选择了计算机科学这条路