We have the ability to do some independent study in the first 60, and I will prooooobably do that over the summers? Although it's somewhat tempting to take the summers and keep working in the tech industry full-time during them, since I like it and it's made od money. We'll see. :)

I know computer scientists are often bad programmers --- and I'm not as terrible as I think I am, but I'm rusty, poorly-trained, and have uncomfortably high expectations of myself when it comes to writing code. (When I was trying to learn, my peers were mostly MIT kids who went on to found startups. This is awesome in a bunch of ways but not for feeling OK not knowing what you're doing.)

Programming language theory is super mega cool! From what little I know about it anyway. I will totally pick your brain. :) Thanks!