David Malan

But I think the more the merrier.

The world only benefits from more educational resources.

From what I've seen, certainly of Khan Academy's work is that they're like ours, I think, is more of a cast of characters, at least on video form.

At least I know the earliest of Sal Khan's work was sort of the handwritten style for his niece or nephew, which was wonderfully compelling and engaging.

I think we stylistically are just very different.

And I think we.

We try across CS50s courses traditionally to have a shared aesthetic, a shared pedagogical style, a shared lecturing style, so that when you take a CS50 course, so to speak, you sort of know what you're getting because it's very similar in spirit to the others in the ecosystem.

I would say I wish someone had told me or I wish I had known to just calm down.

At least when I was in university, I was one of these students who, again, came in thinking I was going to major in something else, government in my case.

I was one of those students who went to my first RA meeting, proctor meeting, advisor meeting with probably on a sheet of paper all 32 courses I thought I was going to take at Harvard, which did not come to pass.

But

It really led me astray in some way the first year and a half of school in that I was really focused on crossing requirements off the list, taking the courses I thought I should.

And it wasn't until sophomore year that I took CS50, which was eye opening and allowed me to start to pivot.

But even then, I hadn't broken out of that mold probably until senior fall, senior spring, when I finally took an introduction to Latin course, which was just for fun and was just so interesting and eye-opening.

And I finally understood aspects of English and Spanish retroactively that I never really had mastered when taking those same classes.

I took a course on dramatic arts 101, which was a survey class on theater and writing and set design and

And acting and pretty much every elemental aspect of theater was introduced in this class.

And I wish I had thought to take a class like that.

And even in graduate school, I was only gradually learning this lesson.

Finally audited essentially a course in archaeology, which was so much fun.