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2016-03-17 23:14:56
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I think I want to go to graduate school, but don't know where to start.
I want to give a little background of myself so that I can get some advice, please.
I went to a UC and graduated in 2011 with a philosophy degree and a mediocre GPA. I basically wasted my undergrad.
Fast-forward to Spring of 2013, when I started taking computer science classes at a local community college. Over those two years I found that I enjoyed programming and CS. I find it sometimes difficult, but also interesting and rewarding. I *did not* walk through it like a breeze - my success (3.9+ GPA, 17 classes from the CS department) largely comes from hitting my head against metaphorical walls over and over again. There were so many times where I got stuck on problems for hours or days. Not all of this stuff came to me easily, but I liked it enough that I kept trying until I got it.
I volunteered as a teaching assistant for most of those two years and tutored many fellow students. I even got to make lecture materials and give a lecture (multiple times) about boolean operators and conditions to beginning CS students.
I heard that if I want to do grad school, the master's degree comes before the phd. If that's true, then phd aside, how could I set myself up to get into a master's degree program in CS?
There's one more thing I should mention. My math is behind. I took and passed a 3D graphics class without taking Linear Algebra, so I am capable, however my knowledge isn't even up to par with calculus. I'm not afraid of math, just very behind. The more I study CS and programming, the more interested I become in math.
>pic unrelated, taught myself LaTeX today