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Let's have a college/university/secondary education thread for all of us /g/ students.
Post your college, shitpost about it/others, give advice, etc.
I'm expecting /g/ to make fun of me for going to U of H for Electrical Engineering, but whatever.
its alright
The world needs more electrical engineering people. Too many pajeet tier people being churned out by "comp sci". I my self almost fell for the comp sci meme. Thank god.
>>54641800
It's a fun major man.
Actually being able to see your work physically and practically apply it to the real world? Priceless.
neuroscience major reporting in, am I fucking up?
>>54641848
>neuroscience
>fucking up
You're pretty damn secure yo.
I'd just get your bachelor's degree at Ohio and aim higher for graduate school, but that's just me. You do you.
Not as gud as I hoped. CS.
EE, Uni of Montenegro
The only advice I can give you, study often and long, or you'll end up like me. I passed about 1.5-2 years worth of courses in the last 4 years, I'm 23 and got a nice deeeeep depression going on for me. Procrastination could very well be the only true deadly sin.
feels good fâm
>>54641848
Not a bad school it's just a shame your football team is shit.
>>54642556
im studying EE btw.
>>54641812
this. love that kinda shit
Future comp sci single honors reporting in. Hoping to go into academia, any tips?
>>54642556
I've got something like 20 friends that go there. At the very best I have heard neutral things about it. Most people have pretty horrible things to say about the professors and the school in general. Only content ones are the ones who already have jobs basically lined up and just need the degree for the sake of it.
>>54642573
unless you're going to a top tier uni (ivy league) prepare to be unstimulated, intellectually. CS courses are dumbed down quite a bit, as it's a cash cow for the education business, and can't be a cash cow if most students fail the first semester.
it might pick up in your junior and senior years, but the biggest problem you'll have to face is being evaluated against normies with no programming experience
>>54642601
100% accurate at lower levels.
If you can make it past year 2 things get a bit better, but it's good enough for me and lets me live at home so I'm good.
>>54642621
I'm not american, Im going to a decent tier uni (top 30) in the UK. Going since its close, it apparently doesnt matter for undergrad, and I wasnt all that keen on the arrogance of the russel group students.
I'll be receiving a major of their choice soon.
I put code monkey degree as the last choice.
>>54642641
i'm australian m8
glad to hear it's better in the motherland tho
>>54642651
Well, I mean there are shit unis here where you will get nowhere, but apparently the one Im aiming to go to is not one of them. It has a 100% graduate level job employment for my specific course. $33k USD average first salary.
>>54641360
UH sucks so bad in comp sci, the only good prof there is based scala man Phil Johnson
>>54642688
Are you a Haole?
Shit gets hard here being one man.
>>54642688
What's that chart about?
>>54642764
born&raised, in my mom's basement spending most of my days (outside of going to class)
i feel bad incredibly for any kid that goes here from out of state
Who else here /NYC/?
>>54642790
UH senate talking about tom apple being a retard with budget
>>54642797
I mean it's not too bad.
I don't get too ostracized or anything, it's just obvious that they think I'm different and all.
Luckily I'm native american so once I explain that, locals and I are usually a bit more chill when we level about people stealing our land and shit.
>>54641360
Anyone else /Electronic Engineering/ here? 1st year here.
>>54642843
i was talking about the housing, just don't try to be a wannabe local and you should be fine. most of the racism to white kids stays in high school.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtPSNVR0Prw
About to fail a class. :^)
>>54642870
Nah man, this place isn't mine, I'd never try to pretend like it is.
Oh yeah, housing is nuts. Cost of living here is ridiculous. Price you pay I guess.
>>54642870
>i'm native american
>i'll never pretend this place is mine
so, you're a faggot who blames your social awkwardness and immaturity on a fact that isn't even true (that you are native american)?
>>54642988
>hawaii
are you even reading
>>54642988
Lol. I'm Cherokee man, I have no right to call Hawaii my place. I already have one, I'm just lucky to live here.
>>54642642
Their comp sci program is actually pretty good.
>source: am brainwashed A&M CS major
>>54642807
I would have been /NYC/ if Columbia didn't reject me. Decided to go to Stony Brook instead.
bamp
>>54643020
Are you from upstate NY?
>>54641360
Finishing 1st year of university.
Time to stop fucking around and leave, I'm just gonna flip burgers where no one can see me.
How viable is that job or am I going to get replaced by a robot soon?
>>54643019
Is it? I'm at UT and two of my friends transferred from A&M CS because they said it wasn't.
Then again, I heard a recruiter saying he would prefer A&M CS graduates over UTCS, so I'm not sure what to believe between both schools.
>>54643139
Cooks are not going to be replaced any time soon because running a kitchen can be a nightmare. Good cooks are always in demand and have a world wide mobility as journeymen and engineers.
>>54643261
That's probably because he went to A&M.
![logo_A1_pms124_269[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/zHUViye.png "logo_A1_pms124_269[1].png")
Grad student in atmospheric science. Used to live in Illinois and now I'm in upstate NY. Quite the change.
Who /fortran/ here?
>>54643294
>tfw I'm originally from upstate but I've never been to Albany
How is it there?
Ay /g/,
I just checked my grades and I got a C in Matrix Algebra. How fucked am I in the future?
Also what should I do to prepare for Advanced Object Oriented Programming in the Fall?
>>54643458
>Also what should I do to prepare for Advanced Object Oriented Programming in the Fall?
Program.
>>54643458
Why would you really even be fucked?
Employers don't give a rat's ass about your college grades.
>>54643474
Learn Hindi so you can cheat off the Indians.
>>54643139
honestly, don't drop out. i dropped out, and my life sucked for 7 years until i had enough money and realised i need to get by ass back into school and complete my degree.
it's harder out there than you know. also stop doing drugs while you're enrolled in college.
>>54643261
UT's CS school is a lot better than A&M. It's like 8th in the country or something.
>>54643458
well, it means you're an average student. not special or advanced, just average.
as an average student, it will be all the more impressive if your future self invents something game changing.
Technical University of Denmark here.
Boy do I love the smell of despair during exams. I'm about to fail an EE exam tomorrow myself. Wish me luck.
>>54643565
Good luck
>>54643538
T-thanks.
>>54643512
It's just that I never worked hard in all my academic life. I'm not used to studying so I'm having a hard time now in university.
I have this project in C and have no will whatsoever to do it.
I like computers but I'm slowly learning that maybe not the programming part, it's boring as fuck.
UGA? Where are you at?
Why am I majoring in pure math?
>>54643565
Lykke til til deg, dansker.
>>54643019
How hard is it to transfer into? I am at the Galveston campus right now.
>>54641360
University of Alabama in Huntsville. (UAH)
Pretty good. Way better if you're an aerospace engineering major. The CS majors like myself take a backseat to it all, but whatever.
>>54641360
Maybe a bit off-topic OP, but have you ever visited any of the observatories there? I know an engineering student who was telling me how awesome it is to look at stars from mountain tops in Hawaii.
>>54643634
because it's fun
>>54643621
excuses are like arseholes
>>54643732
How so?
>>54643745
everyone has one
Any other ND fags on here?
Enrolled at Michigan Technological University as an electrical engineer. Starting this fall. How'd I do?
>>54643761
Not everyone
Anyone here from the University of Washington?
>>54643779
*raises paw*
i-i am
Not being educated. Though I am thinning of going back for a PhD in computer engineering. UCSD.
I know there was someone from UCF last time we did this thread
where you at senpai
>>54643030
m8 what year
>>54643705
Yeah, it's true. Gorgeous view.
>>54643787
Oh shit boi, what are you studying?
One really cool thing that came out of the university of Hawaii is the Aloha protocol. It allowed development of Ethernet and other variations really improved wireless access methods. I would say it is still widely used today although it may not be credit as such. Never be ashamed of your place of education. The important thing is what YOU do with it.
>>54643837
Liberal arts, specifically women's history
Any Cal Poly cucks here?
>>54643845
>>54643787
Holy b8
>>54643732
What I was trying to say is that I was always lazy and hated studying unless the topic really interests me.
>>54643831
I'm father jenkins.
>>54643872
desu I'm just surprised another ND bro is on here considering everyone would shit on 4chan constantly in senior computing ethics
>>54643774
Pretty good
My mom went there, then Cornell for grad school.
Just got my B.S. in management information systems and starting masters in business analytics and information system management. How am I doing /g/?
>>54643880
Honestly surprised anyone at ND even knows what 4chan is. Probably from vague references on plebbit...
>ethical and professional issues
>93 enrolled
Holy shit that's a huge class... CS is overflowing
>>54643880
Also
>no data structures and algorithms til junior year
Hahaha CS fucked you
>>54643904
what grade did you get in Pointy Hairstyle Studies?
>>54643976
CS really did fuck us, somehow most of us got good jobs though
>>54643964
the amount of reddit references is insufferable
I think I could get the same job/pay with or without an university degree
should I drop out /g/?
>>54644029
get the job, then drop out.
>>54644037
Tune in, Turn on, then drop out.
>>54644018
That's good to hear, I think Ramzi is finally turning the department around... way too late IMO
>>54644103
Our class shat all over the department in our exit interviews
can't wait to leave these miserable fucks behind for the summer
>>54644136
My coworker went there, she loved that everyone actually knew math, no liberal arts majors.
>>54644168
I like the school a lot and I like my friends here but the autism is real.
>>54644113
Good. Deserved it.
Did anyone from your class go to the big 5? I noticed they've been recruiting here more.
Cut my life into pieces
my alma mater
>>54644252
I know that feel bro.
>>54644393
Thanks for salting my wound senpai.
>>54644136
Was gunna go there but pic related gave me full tuition
Its pretty comfy desu
>>54644252
>>54644393
I goof'd this semester.
>>54644452
>>54644393
Me last semester.
It's pretty good, but there are some blatantly obvious areas in which they could improve which I and other students are frustrated that they haven't taken advantage of yet.
>>54644493
hey there, also a nova student here
>>54644501
Engineering or Computer Science?
Enjoy the riots, brother?
>>54644546
CS. And of course, only happens once in a lifetime
Planning on going here for my medical lab tech degree. How badly am I fucking up?
>>54644605
nothing wrong with community college
dont expect anyone to be impressed though, or anyone to recognize it
Currently attending pic related, majoring in compsci. What does /g/ think?
>>54644605
I graduated from and worked at a CC before going to a bigger university. It's an alright decision, don't fret.
>>54644565
What do you think of the CS department/professors?
>>54644224
Like consulting? There were some. Personally I wouldn't recommend it. The hours are shit and you do very little actual programming, it's a lot of script kiddy type shit.
>>54644632
San francisco isnt a state
>>54644658
It's pretty good. I've been generally happy with it and it's definitely given me good opportunities. It's obviously not stanford but it gets you the education you need and they want to improve the department where they can so they do care
Canadian fag here.
BBA at pic related.
Am I fucked senpai?
>>54644632
I didn't major in CS at SF State but attended for a bit. Despite some drawbacks, I really enjoyed the uni.
Hey /g/, I figure this is the thread to ask.
I want to go back to school, probably community college, and get into IT. I've heard that certificates are the best way to jump start a change in career like this. Is that true? And if so, what certificates are best to get?
Also, is network/system admin easy?
>>54643413
Pretty nice. I had a lot of friends from NYC telling me it would be shitty but it's not that bad. Definitely at its peak during autumn
>>54644826
I can tell you that you're not getting any DoD job without a Securiity+ cert, guaranteed.
>>54643621
>I like computers but I'm slowly learning that maybe not the programming part, it's boring as fuck.
I don't know where you go to school, but it might have an EE degree with a focus is semiconductors. If you are interested in the underlying hardware, it's really very interesting. MOSFETs, BJTs, graduate-level quantum mechanics classes, fabrication (you might even have a fablab), ect. Pretty hot area right now especially with graphene/CNTs/PCM ect.
>>54643631
Going in fall. How is it?
>>54643851
>going to the inferior campus
>not going to Cal /pol/y SLO
>>54642988
>Hawaii
>native americans
Get out of here whitey, take a history class. what are you even doing
>>54644693
Meant big 4: google, amazon, apple, Facebook
CS to a consulting firm sounds awfully boring
Going here for CS, only because it is nearby. I sort of regret not going to UCR but I am slowly liking it here. The CS program is alright, some professors here know a ton.
The students in the program are beyond saving, so many of them are rude and autistic. It almost feels like they are children who have a hard time learning unless nice pictures are drawn.
chemical engineer major at clemson university in South Carolina
worst decision of my life as of yet
>>54641408
It's in buttfuck nowhere, literally8 why?
>>54645163
If you aren't autistic and like to travel, I would suggest being a consultant for a bit.
The job will consume your social life. You will basically be flying around the country 6 days a week talking to future/current clients.
Dope gig if you like to travel.
Starting as a physics major at UCSB this fall.
>>54645163
We had a couple apple and a google. Granted, one of the apple's got the job solely because of her connections and not because of her abilities.
How do they calculate GPA if you failed some of your subjects and it took you like 2 plus years to get a Bsc? Its EE but still.
![bbbb[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/nSJWUDw.jpg "bbbb[1].jpg")
I really doubt it but any WUSTL bros here?
>>54646254
seriously?
what year?
>>54642556
Ayy fellow patriot.
Wish the food was god-damn edible though...
Pic related: only good food on campus
>>54643631
>>54644992
Oh shit. UGA also. It's a great school. Great campus and the CS and Eng aren't too shabby (not as good as ga tech but what do you expect). The environment is nice since it's not as cut throat and the women are top notch.
>cmd f
>irvine
>no results
>uci
>still no results
okay :(
>>54641360
Get at me, bitches
It's alright. Famous around my area for giving out aid to those who really need it as a hand up. Otherwise, I would never have been able to attend a 4 year school.
>>54646396
Irvine's got a pretty decent program
Don't know if this would be good to ask but I'm going to CC in Indiana right now with the intent of doing almost anything tech related (planning on narrowing my choice down by the end of my first CC year), I however have never really heard much about bigger Uni's in Indiana that are good names for this kind of stuff, except Purdue with Engineering. Any ideas? My choices are limited to Indiana universities that take advantage of being partly state funded since I have benefits that will pay my way through college. Names like Ball State, Indiana University, and Purdue.
College even worth it if I just want to do IT like being a Sysadmin or Network Admin?
>wasting time and money on college
You're all conformist cucks
>>54647183
Have fun working at Burger King, before they install machines to replace you.
how good is cs at UCSD?
>>54647171
College is never worth it
>>54647235
I kinda find that hard to believe for more important and "prestigious" things or are you talking in sense of my question?
>>54644431
Enjoy your RIBS.
t. former student
University of melbourne computer science major. Plan on possibly going to the US or overseas for my comp-sci masters, any advice?
>>54647249
I'd rather starve to death than work for the man. You're job could easily be taken from you leaving you unemployed and everything you learned in college will be worthless. One day we'll have software smart enough to do your job. Machine administration
>>54647053
Indiana here also, really depends on what you are trying to do.
> Purdue
If you are interested in CS I would suggest not doing it there, but if you are interested more in the EE side of things or engineering in general, definitely go there.
>IU
If you are interested in CS or Mathematics definitely go here, you will be taught by some of the greats, and half of the undergrad classes use scheme and other functional programming taught by people who wrote some of the classic Scheme books. You literally could not do better than doing CS at IU.
>Ball State
If you are trying to get a discount education and don't feel comfortable in your abilities, go here and you will get an OK education. You will get a quality degree, but you aren't going to come out of it prepared for academia or grad school level CS/Tech stuff from your undergrad there. They just teach you java and code monkey crap.
>>54641360
Fucking niggers and squirrels man. NIGGERS AND SQUIRRELS
>>54647288
I'm not necessarily defending it, simply asking you to be specific. Was genuinely curious since you seemed like you might have experience with failed college or something.
>>54647298
Alright, that seems like some decent insight, thanks man. Considering I'm unsure at the moment it definitely helps me to eliminate one of my real choices (Ball State in this case). I also have the misfortune of going from Ivy Tech to one of these so I have a feeling it's gonna be a bitch, but I've fucked around enough to know it's what I want and that it'll take work to do.
>>54646628
yeah i know. we just have a chip on our shoulder though because we're so close to bigger, more prestigious places (like USC) that even the supermarket nearest us stocks USC gear (not kidding, it's all tri-point flags and shit for USC and we're literally a 5 minute walk away).
admittedly that's because we don't have a football team, but it makes it seem like we're so inconsequential (even in scholarship) that we don't register in the minds of people literally across the street.
>>54646193
i live in stl go to school somewhere else. that's a pretty hard school to get into m8. I only know one person that goes there and its for some medicine shit.
>>54647233
If you got in as cs congrats, if you are trying to get in as cs, good fucking luck. It's impacted and UCSD students with 3.7 cs GPA get rejected when switching into cs. IMO it's a good school but you really get what you put in.
It is a fucking javashill-school but other than that it is fine
>>54641360
elec engi here
i'm gonna go work for a few years working at a good company now that i have the chance, then i'll return to uni later on.
>>54646382
I feel like going there, I like the Campus more than GTs.
>>54644452
Sorry, what does the X mean?
>>54646098
>implying every job isn't just through connections
>>54647396
Hahaha
>walk into Albertsons
>asians with uci shirts walking out with boxes of ramen
>more Trojans than anteater waterbottles stack the shelves
University of Chinese immigrants, have fun getting cucked
I don't have friends.
>>54645275
less distractions
Did the masters in CE/SE here. It was small and cool program when I started, now its all chink exchange students who can't do anything for themselves. Glad I graduated when I did.
Wish I never went there, so much debt. I should have just stayed at home and worked tech support
>>54651720
I mean this person has literally zero skills whatsoever. She would literally be dead weight at any company.
I guess what I study is called Engineering Physics - doesn't seem to have as big of a status in the US.
Anyway, shits fun, (altough the bachelors was hard as balls) especially going into the master of Complex Systems. Pretty much guaranteed to get a job, the problem is finding a GOOD job.
All in all, it's been fun but I want out of the college lifestyle.
>>54648663
>then i'll return to uni later on
Never actually happens, enjoy your lmaonodegree, son.
But shit, college is mostly about getting dem jobs anyway.
![chalmers_c_logo[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/zMjNEWm.png "chalmers_c_logo[1].png")
>>54648544
>obligatory shitpost
where my slugs at
>>54654759
I almost decided to go here but then I remembered how much I hate California
>>54654790
why do you hate california anon? great weather, great job opportunities in tech, etc.
>>54654831
Commies, ridiculous cost of living, high taxes, birthplace of social justice.
The weather is nice, but I'll pass
>>54654580
Atleast you fuckers start with Haskell, here it is fucking java all the way except for C++ and some weeks of Haskell, prolog and some other shit. Even the course on compilers is to implement a compiler for a subset of Java
Hello fellow electric enginers, greetings from great country India.
>>54654989
Sorry, I'm >>54654522
It's /noprogramming/ for me. Feels kinda bad, I basically only know Matlab and basic as fuck Java.
Visited KTH a while back, was pretty nice, but the Engineering Physics students there are even more autistic than over here, I didn't think it was possible.
>>54641360
>>54642562
>nicebait.png
>>54655377
sorry meant to also say going for computer engineering
>>54641800
Whats wrong with comp science?
Should I bother going to uni at the age of 26?
Been working so far on stuff not related to technology.
Still living with parents which is why I was able to acquire so much money, and I should be able to pay for university on my own just from the saved money.
Or should I just go learn a trade?
Seriously not a single math major? Fucking plebs
>>54655926
And do what? Any job I want? 300k starting? Math is a meme and it boggles my mind that people put up with it beyond what's necessary.
>>54655926
Math major here...
I don't really expect an answer, I'm just thinking through shit. I wouldn't mind opinions though.
So, I applied to Purdue University as a transfer. My application was declined because I didn't have actual college credit for Calculus as required. I took a College Algebra class and AP Calc BC 4 years ago in HS and Linear Algebra after graduating, but I never took the AP test (Academic team stuff, studying for SAT IIs for classes I never took, research project, summer community college etc)
I'm horrifically rusty, and I've hit a bit of a career wall in that I lack a proper math backing to apply to my programming. I'm trying to move up from my lowly $60k/year webdev/help desk support/programmer/network manager/generalist bastard of a job I'm in now. However, I don't have any confidence in my math skills to apply as a proper software engineer. It's not that I couldn't do it and learn, it's just that I've always been the type to absolutely kill it and moving on with companies begging for me to stay. I never want to be the guy who is fumbling around completely lost, or implementing shitty solutions to problems that have a better solution.
For instance, at my current job (not exactly point-of-sale, but similar), I started as an extra techie hand, pulling cable, running out for service calls, taking the occasional tech-support call. Within 4 months, I was given complete access to the entirety of our systems in my state. By 8 months, I was promoted again above the two college educated more experienced techs I worked with after coming up with a few solutions that cut our service calls nationwide from ~400/month to under 100/month, as well as a more robust remote deployment system that worked with our system. Going to continue, in another post because rambling.
>>54643851
my man
Plant Science here
>>54642562
Oh hey Michigan
>>54641800
Didn't go to college. Get job offers regularly. There are skills that college cannot provide, and self taught programmers often have those skills where as green grads do not.
Virginia Tech
Major information systems
Minor haven't decided yet but either cs or mathematics
>>54656268
So why are you so set on college? Go on /sci/'s wiki, read the math books they recommend for each subject and watch khan academy.
>>54655377
Hey man what hall did u live in?
>>54656268
Continuing..
Within a year, my pay had doubled, and I moved from pulling cable to maintaining our state's website, keeping our state's servers online, deploying techs as needed, managing the state's network of terminals, working directly with the dev team to implement changes and solutions, fixing problems that our techs couldn't, hiring and firing as needed, working with the sales teams and distributors to follow and scout leads and to ensure all ~50 state locations were taken care of. My boss moved on, and I have everything but his title after less than two years with only a year of electronics repair experience, and some temp odds jobs as former experience.
But this just isn't my shit. The further I go up, the more I keep having to deal with people and the less I get to do what I'm actually good at: identifying tech related problems, implement solutions to fix said problems, and creating new things to make either my life or my customer's lives easier. At my current path, I'll end up doing nothing but managing people and paperwork, and making low six-figures in my 40s for the rest of my life.
>>54656412
I'll run out of room, next post.
Georgia Tech here. Pretty nice and keeps me busy.
>>54656399
It's not impossible but most the people higher up i've seen at multiple places I've worked have at least an associates except for maybe a handful.
Job market is also pretty limited where I'm at so competition is high and HR usually throws out resumes without degress.
>>54656268
>$60k/year
That's not bad anon depending on where you're at.
How does one save themselves from CANS?
>>54656589
>>54656412
Right now, I simply don't have the time, 60+ hour weeks every week, working 6-7 days of the week is average. Even at home, I'm constantly on the phone or working remotely because this state will fail without me. There simply isn't the market here. That's the reason my boss left. Even after three of our four major competitors pulling out, he couldn't keep us in the black. Even now, with me wearing way too fucking many hats, working myself to death , we're barely able to keep the doors open. Hiring more help isn't really an option money-wise, I can't spare any more tech time because they're not really keeping up as is (we literally have sales people and distributors helping run lines at new locations and I'm constantly having to call in favors from them because we can't get anyone out to a location for days, which would cost us thousands). I'm completely fucking exhausted, and I simply can't add anything else or work like this any more.
I don't want to be back in the position I'm in now. I don't want to continue along this career path of "working with tech -> working with tech and people -> working with people who work with tech". I see how that ends up. It's what happened with my Dad. He, just like me, absolutely loved his job, but the only way to not stagnate your career is to go up. Up until you're out of your skill set, overworked, and hate waking up in the morning because your job is the exact opposite of what you're good at and enjoy. I'm not as savy as he is though, nor is there a market for what he did. I can't get millions in contracts in my name so I can do whatever I want with my own company.
Dammit to fucking hell, continuing again...
>>54642935
See you around m8
>>54656742
Ayy >>54651813 here. You taking summer classes?
>>54657056
Ahh, I think I understand now. I know the kind of company you work for and understand how you feel. Well, you make good money you shouldn't have a hard time saving up enough money to be able to support yourself for a while without a job. Yes you'll have to change your life style but it's do-able. As long as you don't have too many distractions you should be able to nip that math in the butt no problem. If you're really nervous do a semester at a JR. College just to take some refresher classes.
>>54657056
>>54656412
Honestly, I just need a break from it all.
However, that's not something I want to explain when I'm looking for another job. "I worked too much, so I quit and really studied hard with these books and websites for a year or two". At least with Uni, I have a paper saying that I wasn't just sitting on my ass for the next two years. I have an excuse of why I started working part time or consulting "I felt like I could be a more valuable asset with more education". Which really isn't an excuse at all, but now I have a ~$30k piece of paper that backs me up.
I didn't mean to say that I don't use those resources, I absolutely do, and will continue to. Even if in the last two years or so, I've had less and less time dedicate to educate myself. No doubt I'll be able to use them more, and get more out of them when it's something I can apply every day, with guidance. It's just that I've always felt that no matter what I learn for them, there's gaps. Not gaps of "I don't know how to do this", but gaps of "I'm doing it this way, because I'm oblivious that an alternative exists". If I want to kill it as a dev/soft engi/whatever like I know I'm capable of, I can't do that shit. I want to be confident that I know and am taught as thoroughly as possibly. There's no reason to come up with something that some Victor Vanderbilt can do better just because he had someone smarter and more experienced than I tell it to him last year while he was at Uni. I'm too damn competitive and my ego is way too fucking huge to lose because I didn't take the opportunity to better myself as much as I possibly can. If I do everything I can, and people still better me then, that's fine. I gave it my best and that's all I have. I know I'm not the best at anything in the world. But fuck being worse than I could be. Fuck missing opportunities and losing out because I wanted to save a little money or get back to work a little faster. Fuck not reaching my full God damned potential.
>>54657512
Coming from a similar background, I think my best advice to you would be to ask random college students on 4chan what to do. They'll know best.
>programming/database
>lessons are just 3-5 year old videos
>no tutors available
I'm not going to act like I haven't learned anything or that I didn't lose a lot of motivation due to depression, but I wish I had gone to a 4-year college because this style of learning is not for me. I'm thinking about just quitting and learning things myself; at least that way I'm not paying for it.
I have to say though that learning SQL and Java was actually kind of fun. ASP.NET was ass though and I'll probably never touch it again.
Going to UIUC for electrical engineering and it's pretty good so far
>>54642865
Yup, finished second year. When you say first year did you finish freshman year or did you jist finish hs and are going to college?
>>54641360
rare flag reporting in
(but would not recommend until free tuition comes back)
>>54657512
Fucking hell. I know that shit it tl;dr, and most of you don't care. But, I needed to get all of that out and it feels good. Blessed be to Addreall and uncaring anonymous crowds.
>>54657506
Thanks, Anon. I've pretty much made up my mind. In the rejection letter, they told me to get that class out of the way, and I won't have to resubmit my application, just change it to next year. So that's what I'll do this summer. Going to type up my two-weeks* notice now.
Starting back at Calc 1 is probably best, just as a refresher mostly. Maybe see what all I can squeeze in, in the next 18 months or so. I'm sitting on enough to get through the next two years easily enough, Uni and all. No issues with working a bit and/or taking out a small loan for the rest. So I'm definitely set.
>>54657743
Not asking, just venting.
>>54657403
Hey. And no, I'm actually heading to California in a week for an internship.
>>54657950
>adderall
It has a way of making stress compound on itself quickly. Sure you can work all day every day but if you never take a break from working and adderall it catches up to you and you're just exhausted, stressed, and pushed over the limit. I'd take as long of a break as you can from it before going back to school.
>>54657944
>free tuition
I pay for everything out of pocket. If you really want something you'll find a way to make it work
>>54651813
>>54656742
>graduated last year
>want to go back for a master's in CS
Good luck anons, it's worth it
>>54654909
>commies
unless you go around starting political conversations with everyone this shit never comes up. a friend of mine of 2 years mentioned that he was a republican and supported some of the stuff that trump said and it came out of left field for me.
people who object to a place based on it being too left-leaning seem like the sort of people that just like to stir up trouble merely to justify their victim complex about being conservative on the internet/in the modern age.
stop acting like you're being persecuted, you fucking drama queen.
>>54651784
>have fun getting cucked
by what? Chinese immigrants? are you getting cucked by chinese immigrants?
there's got to be a rule that if you get cucked by a man who could pass for a woman, you deserved it.
Going to Northeastern in Boston. Computer Engineering because the comp sci meme sounds too easy.
>>54660017
>something sounds too easy
>so i won't do it
i don't understand this. if you enjoy CS and the field offers career options, go study that. i've never heard an interviewee tell me that they studied X because Y didn't seem like enough of a challenge, but it just sounds like peacocking.
if you don't enjoy CS, or the career options coming out of northeastern CS don't look good, then by all means do CE. but don't give me this self-aggrandizing horse shit about pursuing something principally because it's harder.
that being said, it sounds disturbingly like you don't even know what the CS curriculum involves, so you might not even be at this point in the decision tree yet. you might be at the infantile "it didn't look yummy so i wouldn't try it" broccoli-tier status of college majors. i really hope you get a chance to take courses in departments you wouldn't intuitively take.
who else georgetown master race here?
>>54660089
I enjoy the fuck out of CS, been programming since I was 12, but I don't want to spend 4 years learning things I already know / could learn in a book in a month / aren't going to actually apply in a job. I pretty much mentored my girlfriend through her first year of CS and if I took the same classes I'd literally sleep through every lecture.
I'm hoping to learn a bunch of new things in CE and maybe take CS and add it to the major / switch altogether if I find that to be a better option. Do you know if they overlap a lot?
I don't actually know a lot since I'm not actually in uni yet.
>>54643699
>Aerospace
Have fun being unemployed, I just switched majors to CE because I want a future.
ucla class of 2013 reporting
>>54660144
>I don't want to spend 4 years learning things I already know / could learn in a month / aren't going to actually apply in a job
if your undergraduate CS curriculum satisfies any of these, then your department's reputation would be garbage and your job prospects would be nil, satisfying the latter case of
>[if... ] career options coming out of northeastern CS don't look good
Look at the curricula for each program. Study what you like. Explore shit. Every condescending faggot I've ever met has turned out to be like you + 4 years, where they decided that they would do something because it was hard but not because they liked it or anything intrinsic, and they decided that their whole identity would be based on the false belief that they're better than everyone else.
Those people are insufferable. Don't be those people. Go study something you like (provided that it's not worthless, like Women's Studies (or at least double major so you have something valuable coming out of college)) and let your own satisfaction drive you.
as for double majoring, the two schools of thought i generally see are people that cut corners (doing 2 similar fields) and doing 2 very different things. the people that do 2 very different things are always more interesting not just on paper, but in person. If you want to communicate depth, overlapping by double majoring in your undergrad in CE and CS won't accomplish that; get a masters or a PhD if you want to communicate real depth.
>>54660017
LOL. I go here for CS btw. Lots of CE majors end up switching to CS after taking the intro classes because they're much more interesting and involved than the CE counterparts. In CS here you learn through a functional language and pick up concepts like induction and termination analysis quickly which will only better you as a programmer, even if you think you know it all. The dept as a whole has a 40% dropout rate as well, and I have friends who at the beginning thought they'll easily coast by only to fall because of how different functional programming is to newbs
>third year
>failing hard
welp
>>54659915
I'm considering that too since I graduate in the fall.
>>54654759
hey senpai
>tfw cs classes full
>>54660533
I don't even need it, but the company I'm working for will supposedly help pay for it. If I can find some way to fit it into my schedule, I think I'm going to go for it.
>>54660741
Do you work in the Atlanta area or are you talking about the OMCS?
>>54641360
YOOOOOOOO Computer science here
>>54643705
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Meter_Telescope
A new telescope was going to be built that was supposed to be all state of the art and shit but then the natives got restless and protested about "muh sacred lands" and "muh haoles stealin our aina" so our pussyass governor shut it down "temporarily" and then the building permits got revoked. Shit I think we should take away their EBT if they're going to be bitches like that.
>>54641360
>fell for the petroleum eng meme at a&m
Shit sux desu senpaitachi
I goddamn love it here, no joke. Teaching CS and research
>>54648816
The campus is fantastic. You'll really like it there
Just graduated from Maryland in CS. Time to make some dosh.
>>54661014
Do you know professor Andrew Fyfe?
>>54661040
No? Is he part of the CS department? I never heard of that name.
>>54643851
I was a chemical engineering major- then my roommate died and i stopped giving a fuck and got kicked out for having a shit gpa... I'm finishing up information systems online with National University... Currently a cable monkey at a law firm. life is terrible.
>>54661049
Philosophy department. I figured you wouldn't know him, just curious.
>>54661056
I'm not even sure where the philosophy department is. I've only taken MATH/CMSC/STAT classes while I was here really.
>>54661079
It's all good.
>>54660888
I'm like 45 minutes from Atlanta with traffic. I'd rather go to the actual campus, but I'll probably end up having to do OMSCS instead.
Whats the most laid back engineering?
I'm currently in civil engineering because a professor recommended it to me. Problem is I don't really find it all that interesting. I prefer computers.
>>54661165
Sanitation engineering.
>>54661165
College is CPP.
Notre Dank reporting, English & Econ double major within the College of Arts and Letters...Here's what I have to offer: you don't need to be a business major to land a job on Wall Street. From what I understand, the most coveted spots on Wall Street are represented by an increasing number of Stats/Math/CompSci majors. Nonetheless, just because you don't major in Finance doesn't mean that you can't get that sweet ibanking gig at Goldman Sachs. It's very realistic to have a career that does not directly correspond to your major.
>>54654759
Here here
>starting in the fall
>>54661186
Fuck CPP
if you are in aro, ahmadi is a dick who doesnt know shit about the industry
all he does is sit in his office and talk about how you arent living up to the name of engineer and shit like that
tfw barely did algebra 2 whatever the FUCK that is and i had the balls to even apply to cal poly P for engineering (electrical)
wtf was i thinknig.
I feel like such a dumb fucking asshole cunt moron wish i was asleep forever.
>Econ major
>Bool all day and work IT
Its the life
>>54642556
Fuckin patriots up in dis bitch. Already got a job lined up just need my paper stamped from them.
>>54660949
Hey, I'm going there for undergrad next fall for cs!
What should I expect in Cornell?
UW Seattle represent
public state school, won't graduate with much any debt, and decent program for the price.
few really bad professors though and not much available career/job fair wise except local stuff in Pennsylvania.
Software Engineering undergrad here
