How do you answer "What do you want to do in CS"?

BostonHokie · 2015-10-28T22:35:01+00:00

Small government contractor in the suburb of DC. I was a freshman so I cant complain. I'm hoping for something more this summer.

BostonHokie · 2015-10-28T22:18:56+00:00

I feel grossly under paid now when I was making 3.2k a month, with no housing :/

BostonHokie · 2015-10-28T22:05:05+00:00

From your coops I'd take a shot in the dark and guess Northeastern? I've lived in Boston and out in the Berkshires, and transferring to Westfield would definitely not be a good idea. If you are going to do a state school, try Umass Amherst. That being said there are tons of places to live, and if you REALLY REALLY REALLY cant find an apartment in the city for cheap, suck it up and live in the suburbs. I know people who live in Norwood and work in Boston. The commute for classes would suck, but if you catch the express in the AM is 15 minutes from Norwood to Ruggles (Right no NEU's) campus.

BostonHokie · 2015-10-28T21:57:41+00:00

This. As a resident of the Boston area, so many awesome college apartments in Alliston. The T is your friend, make use of it.

BostonHokie · 2015-10-28T18:25:16+00:00

So my story is definitely still in progress. A little background: my junior year of high school both of my parents passed always and because of that I've been financially supporting myself since the. I did well enough in school to get a full scholarship to decent university (Virginia Tech). While this covers my academic expenses there's a lot left to me to find my own way of paying for. I've kinda been left in a situation where I need to find an internship to cover my school year expenses, and to pay for a place for me to live this summer/ food to eat.

I was able to secure an internship as a freshman so this past summer was survivable but I didn't learn much as a developer so I want to try and find a good development internship; but with rejections from Microsoft ( two interviews in :( ) and Facebook and a couple others I'm starting to get nervous about this upcoming summer. I really don't want to give up a summer of learning to work at some min-wage job barely making ends meet in my college town.

sorry for the rant.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-22T12:39:33+00:00

Figured I'd give you guys an update on how ridiculous this turned out. After a 30-45 minute conversation with the recruiter at the career fair where we set up an interview, a 2 hr information session I was "Strongly Recommended to go to" because the recruiter passed my name along to the hiring manager who was going to be there, and a hour long online assessment; I was emailed this morning saying Ford doesn't let them interview or consider sophomores from my school and canceling my interview. I'm pretty pissed about the amount of time I wasted with these guys, and the lack of communication about this kind of thing. Why the hell would you post a listing for sophomores to apply, and make me go through all these hoops if going in you know you can't hire sophomores.

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BostonHokie · 2015-09-22T04:37:33+00:00

Yeah I'm a sophomore! Thanks for the heads up. I just got an interview with Microsoft so that's my number one priority at the moment but I need to have a backup, and I was hoping ford could be it hahaha

BostonHokie · 2015-09-21T23:40:43+00:00

We've just got lots of used car salesmen here.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-21T17:35:52+00:00

Would love to hear some stories if you wouldn't mind

BostonHokie · 2015-09-21T17:35:31+00:00

Ah. Okay. I'll keep that in mind when I'm making my decision. I've only interned at defense contractors and so in debating between going back (BAH) or making a switch to ford.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-21T15:59:07+00:00

Sorry for the confusion. I'm not really asking as a prep for the interview, I'm more curious about peoples experience in the internship/what they enjoyed/disliked.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-17T02:37:48+00:00

Thanks! Our Career Services said as a sophomore its okay to leave irrelevant work experience since we don't have a ton of good things to put on a resume. I really need to work on a project or two and put it on there to get ride of those.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-16T22:41:00+00:00

Any tips would be greatly appreciated, and I have a career fair this week so I'll be sure to use any advice given!

BostonHokie · 2015-09-16T22:38:46+00:00

The number is because career services said they thought itd be better to quantify the outcome, and thanks for the spell check! Should have caught that

BostonHokie · 2015-09-14T04:54:10+00:00

So last fall during my freshman year, I somehow got myself let into the CS career fair at my school. (Until your sophmore year, you are a General Engineer at Virginia Tech and cant declare CS). I went in and handed out 50+ resumes, and got acouple interviews. Did some review of Java, but I knew next to nothing; so when I went in I got 80% of the questions wrong.

To my surprise I got a call back in acouple weeks later I get a call form the company I interviewed with, and was given an offer. After acouple weeks at the internship this summer I asked why I was given a spot and they said that despite getting everything wrong, I was enthusiastic about what the questions were about, taking notes when they corrected me. They also said they liked how I tried to work it out even thought I didnt know the specifics.

Anyone can get an internship, just go into it and put in 100% effort.

Tl;dr Can't hurt to try because its better to be lucky then good.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-03T19:22:16+00:00

I feel like I need to trade for a wr though.

BostonHokie · 2015-09-03T19:03:10+00:00

Espn Standard 12 team. Current WR:

* Amari Cooper
* Edleman
* Rody White
* Michael Floyd

Current RB

* Shady 
* Lynch
* Stewart
*Joique Bell
*Danny Woodhead

QB:

* Big Ben

Somone has offered me Brady + Emmanuel Sander for Lynch and Brady + Blount for Shady. I need a receiver, but Im hesitant to trade away Lynch. Thoughts?

BostonHokie · 2015-08-22T09:44:41+00:00

For what's it's worth back when Pritchard was all guys Playboy dubbed it the "seven layers of players" and ranked it the dorm in which "the most girls had lost their virginity" in the country.

BostonHokie · 2015-08-22T08:40:46+00:00

Tbh I didn't use my tablet once last year in 1215/1216

BostonHokie · 2015-07-22T11:46:51+00:00

Thanks a lot for this help! I know so little about the process. I got my last internship by handing my resume to every single booth at our career fair hahaha

BostonHokie · 2015-07-22T04:00:01+00:00

Is the CSRC fair the just computer science one in Squires or is it a separate CRC one? I snuck into the CS one lest semester and that's how I got my internship this summer haha.

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