Last week, I spoke to the professor who sits on the PhD committee (if that’s the appropriate term) concerning my less than stellar performance on the QE I took last December. Basically, we chit-chatted about my goals, my test score, and various aspects of being a graduate student. Come to find out, a very slim percentage of students that took the test actually received a “Pass.”

After talking with this professor for a while, we established that I can basically be declared an unofficial PhD student. I am following all of the rules of PhD students, I have the credentials to be a PhD student, I don’t have to ask for permission to take the remaining 4 QEs, I am even taking the same coursework as a PhD student. The difference is I am technically declared a masters student but I am acting as a PhD student.

So now that I’m taking Artificial Intelligence, I’m learning a boat-load about how this is a very difficult subject. I’ll post later about one thing that I think is the most interesting aspect to computers: The Turing Test.