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[okageryuu]

I'm in a program to get my IT associate's degree. This program is an off-campus thing but still a part of the community college (so I am a college student and I still get credits for it). The program currently uses the name of "Get Into IT" and the members are known as the "GIT Squad".

Get Into IT is hosted by AIM Institute and taught by Metropolitan Community College, however, AIM's lawyer isn't very ok with the name "GIT Squad" because he thinks that Best Buy will bitch because it's "too close" to Geek Squad. So...NAME CHANGE.

The name that all of the members (including me) agreed on is "Team Beta Bytes" and our motto is "Taking a byte of IT one bit at a time". A "byte" is generally considered to be at least 8 bits, so that's where the "byte" and "bit" come from.

We decided to ask others outside of the group what they think the motto means to them.

Ok, here's the question:

To me, the motto means that we're taking in pieces (bits) of the whole field of IT (the byte). What do YOU think?

http://www.aiminstitute.org/college/problem-based-it-degree-program.html is AIM's link to the article they wrote, it also has our biographies with photos of us (I'm the one in the dragon t-shirt in the bios section :P). Also, we all have our diplomas but in the beginning they wanted people who didn't but never changed the article to reflect the change.

Comments

[gomanfox.livejournal.com]

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I dunno, I'm not sure your analogy really works that well, since something large like the IT field would be more comparable to a program, not a byte.

Although it might fit better if you switch bit/byte with byte/program or something similar. Plus comparing yourselves to bytes instead of bits might be better, since most people are generally more complex than a single boolean value. :3

But I'm no expert, I always thought team names and mottos were a little silly, so I'm no good at thinking them up or really examining them. x.x

[okageryuu.livejournal.com]

:P You almost lost me with this comment when I first read it (I didn't have too much sleep :x).

I like the binary thing. XD I also didn't think about the whole "program" vs "byte" thing. Actually, none of us did. :| We were all stuck on the acronym it'd make...

I'll give this some thought as well. :)

[culdo.livejournal.com]

OK, if you want me to get all criteeky :P I'd say it sounds redundant, as you're initially taking a byte out of IT, which taken literally sounds as though you are examining the field byte by byte, but then you say after that that it's one bit at a time. "Taking a bite out of something" and then doing something "one piece at a time" the action is conflicted or repetitive. You're taking something out and then you're doing something by a different measurement (smaller than the first unit)...it hurts to think about. I'd just say shorten it to either "Taking a byte out of IT". Personally, I'd just say "IT Bytes!" but I suppose it's supposed to be positive or something...

[culdo.livejournal.com]

That last "bit" says "either" because I was trying to work with the last part of your motto, but it just didn't sound right at all.

[okageryuu.livejournal.com]

Ya know, you're right. It does sound redundant. I actually never thought about it that way. I'll definitely bring this up at the group discussion thing on Monday. Thanks for your input! :3

Also, IT does "byte"...especially if it's dealing with the terrible coding of others, people who download a virus because they suddenly have won 10,000,000, or trying to work with your own code and it just doesn't want to work.

My theory on this class is, it'll only be fun for the first two months...then it's going to suck...hard.