Post god tier college degrees
>>24885450
>meme degree with an over saturated field full of people who have no direction in life yet "had to" go to college
Why does literally every computer science person match that description.
>>24885488
I have a friend in cs who's literally that
>>24885450
>cs
>god tier
pick one
Math, 300K starting.
Thank God I'm majoring in linguistics :^)
>>24885488
yes that's me. What do I do?
>>24885526
Not to bag on the degree, but that's everyone I met. Their parents forced them to go to college, or they're in college for the sake of being in college instead of being a full time wageslave. They have zero interest in programming, computers, modern technology, yet pick computer science. It reminds me of law, five years ago.
>no direction in life
>better go to college
>law school graduates are making a lot of money... maybe I should go
>the field is now over saturated and difficult to find a decent career in
>wonder why
>>24885488
>was gonna go for CS since I'm sick of working in warehouses unloading trucks
>see this post
Well never the fuck mind then
I'm studying criminology in Madrid
how is it?
>>24885573
Funniest meme ever, have yet to know someone with a degree in math even getting a job other then being a teacher
>>24885598
don't let these faggots turn you away from a great degree. this thread is literally worse than reddit.
>>24885583
Why don't you find a degree that leads to a career that actually interests you? You have to be comfortable with whatever you're going to be stuck in for the next 50 years.
>>24885598
^
>>24885636
t. someone trying to get a CS degree
>>24885632
You mean than.
>>24885450
I got a 95k starting and I'm CS.
Not sure if that's common.
philosophy
duh
>>24885643
I have no passions, I just want to live as comfortable as possible...
>>24885660
actually no. I'm studying geology. that's the only true god tier degree.
>>24885643
I actually am interested I just have a hard time sticking with things, figured this would help me stick with it instead of spending 2 days trying to learn and then spending the rest of the week in bed calling myself a loser and wishing I was dead
>tfw interested in nothing offered as a degree
>fucking HATE schooland academics, have since 5th grade
>dropping out after this quarter
>>24885718
Not to spout another meme here, but have you thought about going to trade school first? No trade is really "difficult" and once you learn and practice it a bit, that skill will stay with you. Even if you halfass it, places will still hire you.
>>24885488
this post is so weak it doesnt even make me angry
>>24885488
>loves le black science man, bill nye, etc
>worships sam harris and the other new atheists
>thinks they're the smartest person in their group of friends just because they try to think about the world a little
>enjoys reddit
>has neon colored hair and thinks they're a unique snowflake or wears running shoes and fedoras
>enjoys filthy frank, gamegrumps, etc
>the kind of person that would talk about rare pepes and dank memes on facebook
at least we're not physics majors
>>24885806
My uncle is a contractor, he and his guys tried teaching me but ultimately I'm just not cut out for it
>>24885488
>idiot
if you're not retarded and have a half decent gpa, you can get pretty much any job you want with just a cs minor. i'm a math major with a cs minor and already have several job offers.
even better, if you have a security clearance, you can get a job for a government contractor that filters out all the patels, rajeeps, and asians that dont have us citizenship.
>>24885598
The problem isn't with the degree really, its with the amount of people who don't really try with it and think getting by grades wise without work experience will land them a good job. If you get good grades, actively scout for jobs a year or two in advance of graduation and TRY you will succeed.
A lot of people over here in the UK leave uni with a 2:2, no work experience and think they can cut it. Most employers I've spoken to demand a 2:1 minimum.
>>24885488
>no direction
I want to teach robots to love. Does that count?
Music major here
>kek kill me before i become wagekek at McDonald's while pretending to be an "artist"
>>24886604
Yo same, what are you majoring in? Composition here, gonna go into a conducting graduate program when I graduate.
>no one posting god tier degrees
Economics degrees are the only ones worth getting tbqhwy family
How bout medicine, dumbasses.
>>24885450
Business, someone has to keep the STEM autists in line
I want to do double major of mechanical/electrical engineering with a minor of music, but I have never stepped into a college because I'm a dirty NEET
>>24885450
Chemistry major here.
>>24885488
Holy fuck dude. That describes me and almost all my CS friends
Dude wtf
>>24885488
>over-saturated
Literally every field since they started letting the lower classes go to university willy nilly.
>>24885488
LOL the liberal arts degree faggots are projecting hard again i see
IT degrees = foreverial master race
>>24889424
In my country we have a fun solution for that issue.
We just weed so many people out within a couple semesters that things even out.
The most difficult exam I am taking this Semester apparently has an 85% failure rate.
>>24889477
Same in Ireland. Not so much in arts degrees but the drop-out rate for any STEM field is like 40% per year. Out of maybe 500 or so students in first year, only around 80-100 will actually graduate.
See there's a big gap in the maths required for a lot of courses and the maths they teach in schools. Lecturers complain but I think they should use it as a weeding tool.
>>24889474
Comp Eng here
ITkeks are fucking muppets
Just go get me my coffee, lad
>>24886632
I want to get a compositional music degree but I feel like it's suicide.
Should I actually kill myself instead? I've been thinking about it a lot lately.
>>24885670
It is common
All of the guys that went to my school that I know of got 100k starting salaries in the bay area. Maybe it's because they were actually motivated and went to a good school.
What everyone else is talking about is their shit tier state schools and their peers and they think that's the norm then call it a "meme degree"
>>24885450
College is literally for retards
>>24891202
then why didn't you go
#rekt
>>24885488
Ouch, I finished that degree and I have a generic IT job.
Well I just want the money.
>>24885488
>tfw this is me
Am I really so boring that even an Anonymous stranger who doesn't know me can have me all figured out?
>>24885632
Because it's not majoring in math. The $300k a year is for math PHDs. Much different.
Just go to a coding bootcamp if you're just trying to get a good job. You will save so much time and money.
>>24885632
I work with a few math majors. I'm a software dev in the defense industry.
>>24891806
No. Nobody respects the people from coding boot camps. It's really a scam.
>>24889578
Is engineering in ireland much harder than it is the US?
I study graphic design.
I'm a weird fucking lanky cunt who talks like an autist, why the fuck do girls like me. This russian girl said she wants to rape my arms (what the fuck, she literally said that), then this other girl invited me to her place and wanted to have sex with me but I didn't (got scared). Whenever I go to a bar with my friends (got 2 of them) I have a 3-4 beers, ditch them, and just go somewhere with a random girl each time while talking about weird shit (typography, posters, the evolution of font). EVERY time. I feel bad about ditching them, they're like brothers.
One of my friends is short, studies computer sciences or whatever it's called in english, he gets drunk and complains that women only want money (what the fuck, I have no cash, buy stuff from thrift stores and look like a 2012 hipster hobo).
The other studies business, has a beautiful aryan face no homo and same height as me, works part time lifting boxes (wtf?). He confessed his feelings to a girl through facebook (lmao) and she said she's not looking for a relationship. He does this all the time and only meets women through university or Tinder.
I thought the height thing was a troll AND IT FUCKING IS, except when alcohol is involved, at least a drop of it. Women like tall men when they're drunk. But also sober I guess. They sometimes just stare at me, why...
tl;dr - be tall, autistic, and study art.
pic related, my eye.
>>24885488
Fucking this
>mfw my mom has been bugging me lately to major in computer science
>mfw any field with a fuckload of people doing it is automatically much less valuable because of basic supply and demand
>mfw want to become a scientist, understand how the universe works, be completely independent of society and basically live off the grid but yet in the middle of it
>like a fortified house with gates in an upscale community with solar power and nuclear fusion for all its power
>purify its own water
>grow and slaughter its own food and import the rest
>have 0 social media shit
>store all money in off shore bank accounts
>be able to leave and go to any country in the world and be in great demand with great pay and benefits because like fucking no one becomes real scientists
>I mean biologists, chemists, astronomers, physicists
>Not sure which one exactly I want to be but I was forced to chose a major during application so I chose Physics since its the most fundamental of all the sciences
>mfw going to get a Doctorate
>mfw only 3% of the population gets a Doctorate
>mfw even less than that have one in a real science field
>mfw every time I'm talking to someone and they say they are majoring in some bullshit like theater or physical education
>>24885450
The best god tier degree is having rich parents.
>>24891806
>>24891916
This. Coding bootcamps, along with the "CS" curricula at many universities are really a fucking travesty. They teach almost only coding, with minimum theoretical backing, and with an emphasis on languages for fuck sake - the most trivial thing about a real CS degree.
Any coding bootcamp with an emphasis on teaching languages like Ruby on fucking Rails and orienting their entire curricula on said language is really doing a disservice to their graduates since they're pidgeonholing students to be nothing more than code monkeys that are only comfortable working within a particular language or framework.
But the most egregious thing about them is that they seem to facilitate the development of a software dev bubble. Everyone and their dog these days wants to get a cushy software job in SF and that'll only drive wages down.
Furthermore there's this strange fucking obsession in software in general to recruit more women into the program, which is a totally SJW type move. So if you are a prospective software developer and just happen to possess a penis, not only will you have to deal with a saturated field and lower wages, but pretty dodgy office politics as well.
So when it comes to getting a CS degree at a university, make sure it isn't one from a shitty university. Good CS degrees cover algorithms, data structures and give you options to explore esoteric things like compilers, operating systems, low level things like assembly and optimization - all of which are extremely general and versatile topics unlike INTRO TO JAVASCRIPT or other code monkey shit. Those kinds of things are the only valuable thing in a CS degree and will differentiate you from the code monkeys out there.
But really, CS would be ok if the entirety of public consciousness in the US turned it into a fucking meme.
>>24891198
>100k starting salaries in the bay area
To be fair 100k starting in sf is lile 60k after taxes.
>>24892618
>Furthermore there's this strange fucking obsession in software in general to recruit more women into the program
I refuse to believe big companies like google do this. Women make terrible coders.
>>24892761
Even if they do its probably not that significant. More sjw paranoia, its not really a huge deal inbreal life, offensive shit coming out of someone's mouth just isn't considered cool anymore. A very small percentage of programmers are women, they want that percentage up proportionally, which still isn't that many people when you take into account industry growth.
>>24892862
>they want that percentage up proportionally
Why? There is nothing to gain, only to lose.
Who else /nursing/ here?
Have fun trying to get a job non-engineering/CS stemkeks.
ITT: people justify what they decided to major in and criticize perfectly good majors that they were considering but decided against
Here's a secret robotsno major will guarantee you anything
>>24892761
>>24892862
>>24892900
Perhaps not Google itself, but there are lobbying groups with a lot of power that aim to enforce "gender equality" whatever the fuck that means. At the point where the government steps in with laws, then they're simply going to have to cave in.
Why? Don't ask why. They're not here to be reasonable. It's just what they want and what they probably will get eventually. You aren't very familiar with SJWs I guess.
>>24893027
Yeah, but some majors give you a definite advantage in the field. You need to consider that when you live in the real world.
I got kicked from medschool few months ago.
>>24893027
Maybe so, but there are majors that guarantee you nothing, at least economically.
Computer science here. I wish I would've went for architecture. It's the only thing that seriously interests me. I'm doing my bachelor for now and then I will study architecture.
>>24892726
Yeah that's true and cost of living there is insane also. My point was mainly no one is out of a job
>>24885450
How useless is a kinesiology degree?
>>24892618
What's the difference between a code monkey and a person with CS degree? Honest question
is it that they know algorithms, big o notations, data structure and engineer solutions?
>>24892019
I don't know why you'd think anyone would care about your autistic blogpost but hey glad to see another /gd/ bro
>major in computer science
>think you'll be doing cool stuff
>all you're doing is math
>once you graduate you just become a code monkey for some corporate entity because no one outside of CS actually knows what the fuck "Computer Science" is
>testing throughout my first 18 years suggests that I'm in the top 1% for mathematics ability
>go Comp Sci
Wasted potential by not going with a math degree but at least programming is easy as shit.
>>24893210
Hell yeah man, I haven't slept for God knows how long.
It's a great thing to study g.
>everyone shitting on CS
I'm doing a CS major with a math minor. Is that any better?
Civil engineering. Very good job prospects. One more year till I graduate.
Computer science is just a dumbed down version of computer engineering. Why would anyone do CS when Comp Eng is literally better in every aspect.
My gf does political science and even thats better.
I'm going for English, so I'm letting the state pay for my worthless degree desu.
Who /poorfag/ here?
>>24893013
Have fun getting kekked by the REAL men that study medicine: Doctors. The nurses will ignore and berate your ass while fighting each other over who gets to shove their pussy in the doctor's face first. Then you'll have bitches that'll flirt with you only to get you to swap shifts with them, where you'll end up watching a suicidal, bi-polar rapist, supervised by police at 3AM. Fuck nursing, senpai.Trust me, I'm an RN
Computer Science is too braod a term for a degree if you ask me. It's actually for people that want to become actual scientists. They should instead have different degrees that correlate to what the student wishes to accomplish in the real world, ie: Software Engineering, Database Specialist, Front-end/Back-end Developer.
>tfw mcwagekuk at dunkin
>tfw have no money or a ride to college
>tfw dont know what i would major in if i went anyway
Comp Sci major here. Do I have to memorize all the libraries, classes and methods within a language? Cuz Java alone has fucking hundreds, maybe thousands.
>>24893192
People with CS degrees and code monkeys are not mutually exclusive groups per se, as I've elaborated in my previous post. Reason being is that a lot of CS degrees don't really teach people to become computer scientists but rather just code monkeys.
But a computer scientist, as the name implies is really in touch with the theoretical side of computation, which as a lot to do with mathematics and all the things you just listed.
Considering that the American public in general is really math phobic, most people these days get into CS with very bad motivations. Such as: WE NEED MORE WIMMINZ IN TECH! and I WANNA MAKE VIDYA GAMES or I NEED CS TO GET JOB EVEN THO I HATE MATH. Needless to say, those groups of people who get into CS with those motivations in mind are really amateurish compared to someone who really understands the larger picture behind computer science.
So to answer your question directly, yes a person with a CS degree from a respectable institution is typically different from code monkeys in that they know how to solve problems in computation with the level of abstraction that a thorough grounding in algorithms and data structures provides, allowing the question of what language to use or how to implement the solution to be an afterthought. Code monkeys on the other hand, are taught to use a hammer only and see everything as a nail, following the exact reverse process.
For example, there was lot of criticism of MIT's CS curriculum a while back for teaching freshmen some weird language called Scheme, which has no industrial applications whatsoever. Some departments even boasted of giving their students superior education by using Java in their introductory courses. Little did they know that Scheme was just a vessel to introduce to students concepts like recursion and part of the book SICP, whose difficulty far encompasses a class that teaches kids what a fucking variable is or something.
>>24885881
I enjoy Filthy Frank sometimes, but for long YouTube sessions he ruins everything else on account of his autistic cancer disease.
>>24885881
I enjoy Filthy Frank sometimes, but for long YouTube sessions he ruins everything else on account of his severe autistic videos.
i hope all computers explode at the same time and computer "scientists" are burned like witches
>>24893323
This is true at my university, but I can't speak for others since there seems to be an overall disagreement on what Comp Eng is. It could be anything from a glorified EE degree to an amalgam between EE and CS, depending on what school you go to.
What is a good degree for someone with zero social skills? Would I be better off trying to learn music than coding?
>>24893912
Computer Science is the go-to degree for robots.
>>24893683
Thanks for the in-depth answer anon. All of what you said makes sense to me
>>24885488
>go to college or get kicked out
>been programming since I was 12
>guess it's cs for me
I'm not even planning on getting a job, I just wanted to push back getting a job for four years. At least it's something I enjoy.
I'm thinking of just completing my associates and just getting regular job.
It looks like the college bubble will burst sooner or later, and i would rather not have the debt.
Food-service trade here I come. that SERV-safe I got will come in handy!
Construction Management
Not even finished my degree and I have just recently been promoted to Project Manager. $38 an hour but seeing as I work 50-60 hours a week its fucking good money.
And this is without the degree yet.
Anyone who has a chance to get a Construction management degree or similar. Fucking. Do. It.
The work you do on the job teaches you how to do the dam course work so you don't even need to really go to class. just do assignments
>>24893513
Literally no, you just use Google if you don't know something. And in the case of Java you have comprehensive docs from Oracle.
Employers expect this. I've literally been asked in an interview "what would you do if you didn't know something?" and I said "Google it", and they said "good, that's the proactive attitude we're looking for".
You will find once you start working a job you will soon become familiar with packages, methods, and even design patterns that are often used in whatever area you are working in.
Anyway, if you're worrying about your knowledge of the language, then take on a project and build something. That's the way to learn it, rather than sitting down with the docs, trying to memorise methods. That would be literally absurd.
>>24893912
Math/Applied Math/Stats
Pretty much any other worthwhile major will consist of tons of group work and random people asking you how you did on an exam.
>>24893138
I'm an architecture major senpai. It's a rigorous discipline but so rewarding once you finish. Truly a noble profession and am proud to be one.
>>24885450
PHILOSOPHY GRAD HERE
BOW DOWN BEFORE MY SUPERIOR KNOWLEDGE OF LOGICAL FALLACIES AND THE PLATONIC DIALOGUES
>>24892618
CS is really something that 1-2% of the people who study become involved in research and new technologies so using frameworks and scripting is good enough for the normal person
and that's despite everyone in CS pushing for excellence
>>24894137
no offense to your profession but i see hoards of people study it, im surprised you niggers still get jobs, you might end up with lawyer salaries
>>24894204
>everyone in CS pushing for excellence
If you had ever worked on a collaborative codebase then you would know that basically nobody in CS is striving for excellence, or even a basic standard of neat and organised code.
>>24885488
holy shit i'm this. i don't even want to CS. i'll settle for a job repairing computers. only going cause of parents.
they expect me to find a good CS job cause "muh prestigious engineering school".
>>24887721
Woop Woop Chemistry Represent. WTF do we do after graduation?
>>24885488
CS = Nerds and spergs
Telcom/IT = Lazy stoners
>>24886604
You at least play a real instrument right? You didn't sign up for electro acoustics did you...?
>>24894282
sorry i said it wrong, what i meant was the CS teachers are pushing for excellence, perfectionists that do everything with notepad tier compilers and pure C
>>24894282
This. It's so painful... My coworkers at my last job made me see red sometimes.
Daily reminder that the uni you attend is more important than the degree you do.
>>24894392
It's more about the people that are at the uni you attend than the uni itself, although the better better the uni the better the people so it indirectly relies on the uni.
I fucking hate CS grads. Can you bloody learn how to do software development? I don't get why my company keeps hiring them, we let almost all of them go after babysitting them through the basics.
REEE
>>24894392
nope, you have been lied to
portfolio is all that matters, networking is second,uni is third
>tfw HR major and suicidal
>tfw chose the wrong degree
>tfw hate my professors and classmates
>tfw hate everything I'm studying
>tfw 3rd year of college
Soon
>>24894435
Rich parents is first.
Nepotism runs the world.
Medicine may not be the most rewarding money wise but it is by far the most impressive degree
>>24894435
Shit degree from good uni > mid tier degree from obscure uni
>>24894473
i agree, but aerospace/mechanical engineer is just as impressive if not more
>>24894392
Only for graduate school and if you want a certain major.
>>24894003
For a perfect example, look here.
>>24893513
for a person who seems to have Java as a major part of his core curriculum in computer science, up the point where he questions the need to memorize shit in Java like a biology textbook.
Documentation exists precisely so you don't have to memorize shit.
So no; you shouldn't memorize everything - unless that's the shit that's coming on your exam. What you should do is learn how to solve problems in general and learn how to fetch and read documentation quickly since those are the skills that most employers give a shit about as >>24894079 said.
Reason being that there are hundreds of languages out there and software generally moves quickly. It's impossible and pointless to memorize everything. So when your team moves to a different platform or language, you need to show them that you can get up to speed reading the docs in 2 days.
Essentially memorizing has nothing to do with your worth as a computer scientist - you aren't a premed. Success in CS has entirely to do with how fast you learn and implement concepts in different situations.
>>24885488
>literally
Nice meme, friend. Most of the people in this degree are like that though. But there are also
>super passionate about gaymen
>people who actually like math and the applications.
>>24894518
Wrong
Good degree from a shit uni> Useless shit degree from a high ranked uni
>>24885450
>God tier degrees
>computer science
Wow that is really fucking gay
How much do you charge for a quickie in the loo, hacker boy?
>no geology
>tfw /r9k/ is full of cs nerds
>>24894204
The issue is that people who only know how to use the "frameworks and scripting" share the same degree as the people who are involved in research. It's like conflating an electrician with an electrical engineer. That really shouldn't be the case.
Essentially CS used to be respectable somewhat until normies started pouring in devaluing the degree and shitting on its foundational principles to make it easier for the lay man.
>>24894628
right under the belt
>>24892019
>>24892048
>>24892618
Woah, why dont you try writing all this shit in your faggoty diaries, niggers?
>>24889477
It pretty much the same in the US but no one admits it. I remember taking a course and having like three or four hundred students going for the same degree. Here I am 2 years later and there is only 80 of us left in this semester lets see how many are left next and then I am sure it will be a lot less who actually graduate.
>>24892019
>I study graphic design.
jesus christ i hope you have a portfolio ready even before you finish studying
BUT, its fun as fuck
>>24894392
Unless you go to Harvard or Yale or some shit a humanities degree is always gonna be shit-tier compared with a STEM degree.
>>24893856
yeah at my school CE do not know to much programming. I am a CS student and I can program a bit better than some CE students.
>>24889979
The fuck are you talking about, computer engineering *is* IT
>>24895005
..no maybe in your school but where I am its a bit more difficult. We have a lot of CE students who drop and change to IT because it is not as tough.
>>24895048
It aint our problem if you are in electronics special ED
is QA (software testing) a meme job?
Who /puremathmasterrace/ here?
I am studying Computer Science & Philosophy. I enjoy both, and that is what makes it God-tier.
>>24895140
pretty much but I am CS student i have not given up...yet
>>24895001
Are you Chinese or something?
At my school the CS majors get their hands held with Java for the intro classes. CEs play around with logic gates, assembly and C in that order. Both have to take data structures and algorithms, but only CEs have to build an operating system from scratch while CS just glosses over operating systems. And in addition to all that, CEs have a lot of EE classes as well.
>tfw majored and graduated in CS
>tfw can't get a job
W-why can't I get a job? ;-;
>>24895167
This baka
/Comfiest/ major desu.
Also /comfy/ academic life with dat dere PhD baka senpai
if anyone here is underageb&,
please dont fall for the cs meme. just study traditional maths, physics, or engineering. or whatever actually interests you
>>24886742
medicine isn't a major in the US
>>24895218
why Chinese?
I go to school in Texas
i cant say how the classes are in CS yet since I am a still taking basic classes but I have a lot of CE friends who pretty much have to build small machines.
>>24891916
Is that why they all get jobs dingus?
anthropology
even if u cant be an anthropologist u can get soul sucking job at like a marketing firm or some shit where u can convince them u "Get people" because u have a degree in people
>>24895224
maybe move? uh where I live there is plenty of jobs that are hiring CS. I have not had the opportunity to apply for those jobs but it does not seem to difficult to get with a few extra certs and if you apply your self harder its not so tough.
>>24885488
CS faggot reporting in. This describes me to a 't'
>>24895144
A job is a job. Also QA can be rather broad I imagine. I do a lot of automated testing so I can still call myself a code monkey. Hell even spending all day manually clicking gooey buttons would still be better than a lot of things.
>tfw IT degree
CS meme is a meme
Truthfully do what you enjoy, you'll learn you hate it too.
>>24895280
>or whatever actually interests you
does this include sociology, chicano/asian/african studies, linguistics, philosophy or any of those other degrees that alot of the Normalfags seem to universally say are >shit tier degrees
???
Oh and Yes,
I am Underage B&
tfw 16
tfw addicted to dank chronics, opiates and dabble in cocaine
tfw still no direction in life
tfw not sure I would even survive college with any degree
JUST
How much fucking math do you need to know to be able to computer science
>>24895343
>yeah at my school CE do not know to much programming
I read this in a Chinese voice because of all the spelling errors. Lol. Also since the place I go to is half Asian.
Where in Texas? UT Austin? Got a friend wants to get in there.
>>24895466
dude you shouldn't do cocaine you're 16
you also shouldn't 4chan I'm not sure what will kill you first
>>24895486
plenty example cal 1 to 3
>>24895224
A lot of CS grads can't get jobs. No one cares about your degree. Your skills are more important. You have to prove you're good. Make your own projects, contribute on github, and practice toy problems.
>>24895512
well im done for
>>24895486
Depends on what you're trying to do.
>>24895487
lol sorry I am on a few drugs right now and I its hard to concentrate. But actually University of Houston! my grades are not good enough for that school sorry
>>24895466
that density of memes in your post if far too high my man
>>24895550
cal 1 is not so hard and I had to redo cal 2 a few times just don't quit my nigga
>>24895466
>Samefag
mfw I just want to spend my 4 yrs of college majoring in chicano studies or linguistics, going to le activist rallies/union meetings etc., and getting dank AF with qt3.14 activist grills every day
Also trip Acid/MDMA and do my opiates/coke on the weekends
>inb4 SJW kek!!!
jokes on you, I'm a dirty mexican and my people are already the majority in Califas ese
Suck it CumskinKeks :^)
>falling for the STEM meme
Please don't do this guys
cs major at ut-austin here. we're ranked 9 in cs by usnews. I have a 35 an hour internship offer and I'm only a sophomore.
>>24895567
software engineering or something like that
>>24895486
varies depending on your school, but usually you'll need to go up to calc 3, some level of linear algebra, and some physics. also, after a certain point, the math gets really dissimilar to other math you may have done. lots of theoretical shit.
you will spend very little time coding. if you just wanna fuck around with java, get a degree in IT
>>24895630
same here but not the whole UT thing. Its not so hard with all the medical places that are asking for IT and programmers.
>>24895572
Sorry to hear that, but I was under the assumption that UT Austin is easy to get into with the guaranteed admission policy and all that.
I might have to break the news to my friend since he's not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
Should I switch from premed to CS? My gpa is pretty much shit and I don't think bio will work out for me.
>>24895415
I agree my area sucks, I want to move so I have been applying to places out of state. Not getting any responses though. :(
>>24895541
I do have a github, several projects, and even made a couple of contributions to open source projects.
>>24895670
yeah I guess cs just sucks in some places. Some other guy said the cs people at their school don't even make an os. Like that's a staple in our education. If you graduate from cs, you should at least know how to write the basics of an os.
>>24895632
That could be anything.
Really it depends on the field you're trying to work in. If you just want the degree you'll probably have to take calc 1 and linear algebra.
Learn about data structures and algorithms first and foremost, if you wanna get a feel for CS.
>>24895676
If you're from texas and still in high school, you only need to be like top 7% and you get in. You're still not guaranteed admission to cs even after that though.
>>24895676
I think your friend should still try to apply there. It was hard for me since I am getting out of Com College with a ehh GPA
If I could do it all again, I would've become a vet. Or I would've taken computer science. Instead, I took Sociology with plans to go to law school but never went to law school.
Though it's lead to some pretty interesting social service jobs that have paid well enough 40-50k and I really feel like I'm helping people.
Been hard to find those jobs though. Ah well, lying in the bed I've made.
>>24895695
that's exactly what I am doing now and I have a few places who are interested in me. But if you really want some help I recommend /r/cscareerquestions
>>24895695
You should have everything you need to get a job then.
At what phase of the hiring process are you getting denied? Are you getting phone screens? Interviews? People bash bootcamps, but they actually prepare you for all this shit.
>>24895167
right here bro.
fucking awesome, keeps your mind at bay.
>>24895781
CS is overpopulated as fuck and if you are not talented companies prefer hiring codemonkey from india
>>24895719
I am taking some courses on Unix soon I am sure some of that will be covered in that course
>>24895630
Is it ballsackingly hard to get into CS there? I can't seem to find the acceptance rate or selectivity.
>>24895831
agree but there is plenty of places who NEED people locally
>>24892048
just do a minor in cs
>>24895795
I've tried /r/cscareerquestions hasn't really helped and it just makes me depressed.
>>24895813
Don't even get a phone call. I recently fixed up my resume to add my open source work, so it should be better.
I can't even do college algebra decently and i want to major in cs. The math is going to kill me
>>24895719
What I'm more boggled by is how some CS departments don't even make their students take a course in algorithms.
>>24895758
He's in a california community college at the moment. That's probably bad since its out of state right?
>>24895889
You mean like abstract algebra or retarded 1+1 algebra?
>>24893027
Network>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Degree
>>24895839
It depends where you're coming from. From high school, it's a lot easier. If you're coming from a community college, it's tougher. I know a lot of people that come from community college with 3.7s and get rejected, but I've also seen people with less than that get in. They'll largely let you into the program based on how well they think you'll do with your time here.
>>24895920
retarded 1 + 1 algebra. its pretty sad, I went to a shit tier elementary and learned basically no math and was fucked from then on
>tfw too fucking stupid to get into school CS program
Self-Teaching can't be that bad right? I really want to learn how to into computers well, I don't care if I can't get a job for it because I don't have a shitty piece of paper. I'm torrenting some C+ programming stuff right now.
I'm currently doing Accounting which I know I don't have a future in. I'm one of those people who's parents wont let them be neet and I don't have enough skills to hold down a job in the real world. I'm scared.
>>24895883
Your resume's not up to snuff then. Here's the thing about your resume: they're filtered out by computers. So no one is probably even looking at your resume. You have to start each bullet point with a 'keyword', such as 'implemented', 'leveraged', etc. You can google the resume terms. It's bullshit but yeah.
Also apply to a fuckton of places.
>>24895969
I've been coding for fun since I was a kid; it's not hard to teach yourself, especially with sites like codecademy around these days.
Certification on the other hand... Though a lot of job postings say they'll just test you so who knows
I love CS, and I've been productive in it enough to get insanely good job offers before I graduate, but holy fucking shit do I hate my classmates. Lazy, vain memespouting idiots. If you improve yourself or try in any way they hate you. If you don't play videogames they hate you. If you don't own a mac they hate you. If you don't watch John Green they hate you. They are so stupid and goddamn lazy, fucking hell.
>>24895999
I did that about a year ago. I have also posted my resume online and made the improvements they suggested.
>>24896017
CS students use mac? TIL.
I would've assumed everyone would be PC master race
>>24895892
I don't know anything about CC in cali but I am sure they will not look down on it just tell him to strive for GPA above 3 take extra programming classes which will make him loot better. go to the site and look for the UT department and find transfer requirements. I am sure your "friend" can handle it better than I can.
>>24896088
most CE students I know love the fuck out of mac but CS students use winblows of LInucs
>>24895960
Come on man. It's algebra. It's LITERALLY 1+1 level shit. You don't need someone to lecture you on 1+1 its just self evident. Fuck, I remember my first eureka moment in my life was when I was 3 years old and figuring out what 1+1 meant when I saw a buy 1 get 1 free sale at a discount store.
That being said, if you suck at math, you're just going to suffer in CS. Probably up to the point where it just isn't worth doing anymore since CS contains math beyond *gasp* algebra.
>>24896163
I suck at math but only way I am "making it" so far is retaking classes until I get a C so far so good. i know its not a good thing but at least I have not given up
>>24885450
>mfw am majoring in art history but minoring in CS
>It's all programming and IT but without the math and abstract theories
>am still going to get a decent job when I get out
>the nearby museum is waiting for me since I did an internship there
STEM is a meme, think outside the box.
>>24896250
good luck amigo looks like you thought this through.
no such thing as a god-tier degree desu senpai
>>24892048
Are you me?
What was your upbringing like, I'm looking for similarities.
>>24896073
You sure? If you have projects you've worked on and some formal education, you should be getting past the resume bots. Maybe your resume is too long?
I'll give you the rundown just in case you're missing something.
1. Keep your resume one page long. If you have to get rid of stuff, prioritize your projects over your education and work experience.
2. List all technologies you're strong with and have worked with at the top.
3. Right below that, list all your projects. Projects go above education and work experience. Keep ALL of your bullet points to one line long. Maybe you're getting past the robots but no one wants to read a long ass resumes, they have to look at a ton of these.
3. The format for your bullet points go as followed: keyword (implemented, etc.) + name of technology used + feature implemented with such technology.
Hope this helps.
>>24896304
to many people anon
someone has gone through or going through what you have anon you are not alone..
>>24896220
But if you don't enjoy it and legitimately have to grind super hard for Cs, you're just battling an uphill stream.
Beyond what you're doing now, you're probably going to have to take the Calc sequence in college and discrete math and maybe linear algebra at the bare minimum.
Even if you get past that, a lot of programming in general is correlated with mathematical thinking. So you won't be safe at work either, if you get a job that is.
Its good that you're still trying and I applaud your effort, but regardless no matter how much will a paraplegic person has, running a marathon just isn't feasible.
>>24892048
Well aren't you just the most special snowflake.
Too bad that what you want to achieve will only be an after thought that will never be acted upon.
True God tier degrees:
Math
Physics
Philosophy
>>24895486
Depends on the university you go to. In my uni to get in cs you need cal1,cal2 and linear algebra. Then you need to do 2 math courses from a given list.
>>24896467
Philosophy is no joke, its hard bro.
Physics is the easiest on that list, its fun if you can understand it.
>>24896376
I do enjoy it .But linear algebra I got a B I have a few A's in math but some C's as well my programming is not terrible but it could be a lot better I have not taken any programming besides C# and I am already taking the initiative to study more just so I wont have such a hard time. I will keep trying and see how far it takes me also I am studying for certs and I have been told I do not necessarily have to do programming if I get a CS degree. Is there anything else I could be doing to make it a tad easier?
>>24896467
>philosophy
kek
>>24896520
No kidding... I took a few philosophy courses as electives thinking they'd be easy 4.0 material.
They were not. Soooooo much reading and brainbending thinking.
>>24896622
I took one Phil class a while back. It was tough and I was able to go through it with a B but sadly I cant tell you what I learned in that class :(
>>24885450
I'm changing my major from computer engineering to computer systems.
>>24896670
Why did you save that?
>>24896696
I create my own WEBMs
>>24896537
You don't necessarily have to be able to program to get a CS degree, but you certainly need to be able to be proficient in a few languages to get a job and have the theoretical knowledge to pass technical interviews.
It would also help if you can write eloquently. Your exposition is really terrible and playing to the stereotype of CS majors having shitty writing will not help you at all in the eyes of a prospective employer.
Of course, none of this will be easy, especially if you're trying to thrive in an area which you look like you aren't meant to thrive in. By "meant", I mean to have natural talent for.
>>24896250
>tfw majoring in History and minoring in CS too
>skip all the tough math and take the easy CS courses that don't need math
It truly is a match made in heaven
>>24896662
It's ok anon, we've all had our mind break before.
>>24896606
I didn't mean the top degrees for making money and being a Jewish piece of shit. I meant the top degrees if you actually want to challenge your mind and become an educated individual.
So in that case, philosophy belongs, especially when you take into consideration that math is essentially a branch of philosophy.>>24896662
If you want to be a moneymaking jew, simply have connections. A college degree is pretty much useless if you want to be anything above upper middle class at best.
>>24896793
I knew I was never meant for this but honestly I don't want to give up. I feel like this is the only thing keeping me from screwing up my life and also I don't know what else to do at this point.
>>24896809
That's fine and dandy when it comes to getting a minor and a degree and all, but when it comes to the real world your math phobia won't be particularly helpful.
Virtually all of the big employers in CS have technical interviews to test knowledge of algorithms typically covered in upper division CS courses. In my department the algorithms class is known as the class one must take to get a job because it provides the knowledge to rip through technical interviews.
Here's a particularly common interview question:
You have 12 balls identical in size and appearance but 1 is an odd weight (could be either light or heavy)
You have only 3 chances to weigh the balls in any combination using a scale.
How do you determine which ball is the odd one and whether it's heavier or lighter than the rest?
So the easy CS courses are really the ones that are worthless.
>>24896987
I am not going into a CS field though, it is purely fluff to help me get a job with History
>>24895614
Can we petition to get this shitskin out of the border and out of the site? Go ask your whore beaner moms permission, fucking spic
Mods, tear down this underage funposter
>>24897057
> fluff to help me get a job with History
Are you at an Ivy anon?
>>24885894
>already have several job offers
how?
>>24896017
What university?
I knew a kid like that going into electrical engineering at MIT. Every change he got (before getting in) he would talk about how well he did on a test, or ask to see other's scores and point out his.
Without pulling the sour grapes meme he is actually in hell now because he complains everyone there is stuck up.
>tfw carnegie mellon comfy as fuck
>>24886683
tha fuck? i have an econ degree (business) from the top uni in the state and i can't find shit. what jobs are good?
>>24897114
Eurokek, going to be a History teacher. Schools like to hire you if you have something like a CS minor under your belt
>>24885488
i like cs though
>>24897115
not him, but math/CS degrees are very sought after in the marketplace. The only undergrads who get more offers are petroleum engineers and some other pharmaceutical thing.
This is coming from 2010 census data. If you don't believe me, I can track down the source.
>>24895048
lmfao
youre getting keked
>>24897176
Do you know what CS is?
What would you be doing with a CS degree?
Where will wou work and what would you do from 9-5 everyday?
I'm in CS and I can't answer the last two. jfbsuftbqh
>>24897138
Are you fucking kidding me anon? CMU is just as stuck up as MIT, especially in SCS.
I know a lot of people in SCS that have suffered nervous fucking breakdowns in their apartments because they have to take lethal courseloads every semester. Mostly old alumni from my high school.
In fact there were a few transfers to here (UIUC) from CMU, just because they were fed up about how competitive everyone else is at CMU.
>>24897287
Maybe it's because I socialize with almost no one
;_;
I've been considering transferring to UD (instate tuition) but I don't know if I should stay on the CS train
>>24897408
Top kek man. If you actually transfer to UD (Delaware?) you're essentially giving up a spot at one of the most coveted CS departments in the world.
Your time at CMU will probably be fucking shit, but if you pull through it will probably be worth it.
There are lots of salty fucks in the UIUC CS dept who couldn't make it into CMU, MIT, Berkeley or Stanford for CS who'd kill to be in your position.
So choose wisely.
>>24897408
CMU cs is very good and recognized by everywhere
I wouldnt leave
>>24892048
>mfw any field with a fuckload of people doing it is automatically much less valuable because of basic supply and demand
Funny you say that, because supply and demand dictates that computer science is a much more valuable degree
>>24897602
>>24897598
there is no end
there is never an end
>>24897651
Are you one of those people that need 4+ years to graduate? I know CMU CS for a fact makes it almost impossible to graduate in time unless you're literally Jesus.
But at least there's light at the end of the tunnel for you in the form of a god tier degree (and mountains of debt maybe since CMU is fucking expensive as fuck).
On the other hand If you go to bumfuck state, you'd be cruising, but there's less to hope for at the end.
The CS dept here may not be as recognized, but its relatively chill and cheap overall.
>tfw when career fair in california
>doesn't know what the fuck UIUC is
>>24897825
I had to look it up. But I really can't understand the difference between CMU's compsci program and say, standford or MIT. Even UD's mechanical engineering program as compared to MIT is the same
Too late now.
>>24895486
Calc 1, 2, Calc in 3 space, Differential Equations, Differential Geometry, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, Lambda Calculus
These are only some of my undergrad requirments for a degree in CompE
>>24893683
Damn good post, my man.
>>24897921
Well CMU's program is similar to Stanford and MIT's because they're similar tier institutions.
Have you seen the difference between CMU's compsci program and UD's though? There's a prety fucking big difference. Also,
>standford
Are you seriously in SCS man?
>>24896304
I've grown up in a lower-middle class/ middle middle class (not sure which) neighborhood full of blue collar factory workers.
My dad is an alcoholic dead beat failure with no job who had an affair like 8 years ago and basically retired in his late 30s.
Mom is really nice and pretty smart and she works for a university's medical system as some sort of business systems analyst, supports all 4 of us single handedly.
Brother is a morbidly obese OCD prick with major mental problems and self hatred who takes it out on us, he dropped out of school for years and my parents rushed him into 8th grade when if he had never dropped out he would be in 9th, but I fucking know he isn't ready even for 8th more like 7th or maybe even 6th.
All the people I went to school with I either didn't think anything of or they were assholes.
My area is just a bunch of houses, roads, and forests, super boring.
Going to VCU in Richmond is pretty cool though.
>>24897642
No, the more of something there is the less valuable it is, if a fuckload of people go into a field then having the knowledge to work that field becomes less valuable because you are easily replaced.
>>24897979
Comp Eng here. Taking intro to electricity and magnetism and mechanics next semester. How are they in terms of difficulty, and how much time should I dedicate to each per day?
THE WHOLE THING WAS A RUSE.
I get to shitpost 24/7 here without going to any university at all. Have fun going nowhere buddy.
>>24896987
Couldn't you just measure
1. 6 and 6
2. take heavier 6, do 3 and 3
3. take heavier 3, do 1 and 1.
if =, then the 3rd ball is heaviest, or else you can tell?
>>24898390
What if the two balls are different? Divide them into 3 groups to start, compare the first two to eliminate having to go through all 12
>>24898390
>>24898463
Read the question again, the solution is more elusive than that.
>>24898489
>>24898463
Damn. Yeah, probably shouldn't have been that easy. I checked online so I "got" it. Anyway, this whole thread is basically about CS. What other good majors are there?
>>24895414
Anthropology isn't a degree in people though. It's not as simple as the study of people.
>>24894243
There's a high variability in architecture salaries depending on where you practice, what kind (residential, commercial, public/governmental) and the scope of the firm or projects. It's really hard to pinpoint an exact estimate of average salaries because of all the variables of employment. Some make millions and some make pennies, it's who you know and how creative you are.
>>24885450
Is nanotechnology good?
>>24885450
Fuck CS. Switched my major to economics and couldn't be happier.
Wow, looks like none of us are in here
I'm pursuing a degree in electrical engineering which is also the most objectively difficult degree to obtain in this thread
>>24885488
me but I'm doing ChemE
>>24898181
Trivial classes
Economics masterrace
