[sdiy] OT : School.

[Byron G. Jacquot]

A couple more thoughts:

You'll find that a lot of university programs look pretty similar.  They
usually have to meet some sort of accreditation standards to be able to
award batchelor's degrees, and those standards set a pretty common baseline.
They're trying to set you up to pass the EIT/FE exams.

As far as analog design, by the time you've had the circuits, systems &
signals classes, you'll be pretty well versed in analog.  Digital is just a
subset of analog!  And just because they teach some things with a digital
focus doesn't mean it's totally different.  Poles and zeros are poles and
zeros, time and frequency are still the domains you'll have to worry about.
Engineering education is a codeword for applied mathematics.

And if you're a hacker by nature, then some of the digital things you'll be
studying will be second nature.  There'll be a room of confused neophytes
trying to figure out the intracasies of an FTP transfer, and you'll have the
thing downloaded and running.  Any software work you do will probably also
be easier, too.

Byron Jacquot