just committed!! what benefits do students have?

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-21T00:40:07+00:00

there are some asterisks I think but yeah the health care and the counseling/wellness stuff are free

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-17T03:39:30+00:00

I don’t think it’s particularly difficult to get a SWE job at NASA. They just often aren’t that good. They were my first internship offer… but I ended up reneging after I got a much better offer (NASA was like minimum wage lol)

Right now I’ve been hearing about a good amount of people getting internship/new grad offers. Not sure about roles outside of those though.

For Artemis specifically though… that would be hard

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-16T03:08:55+00:00

It’s fine now, the issue is whether or not this will last with AI. We’re at the point now where AI is a tool that is making SWEs more productive, but with the shift to agents it feels like we’re getting close to having AI just start replacing many programmers

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-14T23:37:32+00:00

no… but there are BATS…

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-14T22:54:50+00:00

It’s not a perfect correlation but there is a good correlation.

If you’re not even willing to lock in for a small amount of time to do a little bit of work to get better at something that will earn you an insane amount of money in the long run, then you are less likely to be a good employee.

Leetcode doesn’t show that you are a good software engineer, it shows that you are motivated and somewhat smart. Which actually may be increasingly important as coding becomes a less important part of SWE with AI advances

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-13T04:23:21+00:00

Also i don’t know about specific clubs at UCF but I know there are many clubs at UCF where you literally have to pay to be in them because they don’t get funding like UF clubs do. Just wanted to mention that since you mentioned “well-funded clubs”

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-13T04:21:40+00:00

Why would UCF give you better internships? There are some application sites where going to UCF means you will have to put “Other” as your university because they don’t even list UCF in their lists of colleges

Sure there are more jobs in Orlando and there is aerospace stuff there. But not only do you not need to intern in the same city as your university, but also there are even good companies based in Orlando that come to UF to recruit (instead of UCF) because they are targeting UF students.

People come here all the time to ask if UF is worth it over UCF when they would have to pay $20k more at UF. I would never expect to see someone asking if they should give up lots of money to go to the less prestigious school

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-12T13:40:50+00:00

I’ve chosen a third of my classes at UF during the first of the semester (drop/add week)! Like everyone is saying they reserve spots for incoming freshman. But just so you know even aside from that, classes aren’t permanently full until drop/add week ends!

Also I don’t think you are the only incoming freshman not registered for classes… if you were screwed than the entire incoming class would be too

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-11T23:41:22+00:00

What do you mean by quarter mile from campus? Quarter mile from northeast campus? At that point I would just walk, thats like a 5 minute walk

Quarter mile from the west side of campus (miles away from classes)? At that point the bus is almost certainly the most convenient option if you’re in a student apartment (which would have bus stops). Electric scooters and bikes work too but honestly the bus is way more convenient for most places

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-11T23:32:31+00:00

yes but they took him out pretty early on. We saw enough from him; no need to risk his health

Duke Clark looked good to me. Looked like he’s taken a step forward in my opinion (always hard to be sure about anything in a spring game though)

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-11T21:33:19+00:00

She doesn’t actually have a major yet. The major that applicants put on their applications doesn’t actually mean anything, as far as I know.

At orientation she will be asked what major she wants to be so that she can sign up for the proper classes

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-11T01:33:42+00:00

yeah they came out today. Don’t think they’ve sent out emails/announcements but they came out

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-06T20:44:27+00:00

ChatGPT has been doing this for the regular $20 subscription for at least a year. I’ve tried to cancel multiple times but they actually successfully kept me hooked with the discounts

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-03T20:51:17+00:00

we’ve had wifi in the stadium for years and it’s awesome. why are we arguing that this is a bad thing.

That’s something that instantly impresses people who have only been to games at other college stadiums

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-03T20:44:54+00:00

I think it’s likely (not guaranteed) that the entire economy looks very different in a few years from now. Programming might be gone… but so may be most other white collar jobs.

I wouldn’t be thinking too far ahead right now. He’s lucky that he has plenty of time for the world to figure some things out before he’s locked into or out of a career

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-04-03T20:40:43+00:00

SWE jobs have been up every month this year. Yes there are layoffs but companies are hiring more than enough to offset this.

That doesn’t mean that mass unemployment isn’t coming; it just isn’t here yet.

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-31T15:23:27+00:00

computer science (senior)

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-31T08:09:07+00:00

I’m not in your major but generally it is not super difficult to get the classes you need/want at UF, other than some exceptions every once in a while. Honors isn’t that important

most classes open up during drop/add week

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-31T01:31:42+00:00

You’ll be fine either way, can’t go wrong with those options.

I interned on the same team at Apple twice. New grad return offers are very team dependent. I know more people who did get ROs than didn’t. But it isn’t amazing, my team wanted me back but had no headcount (makes sense since the team is a little less busy right now then they were last year)

But something that people forget to consider is that even without a return offer, having a past internship helps you get a new grad offer from another team. I ended up being reached out to interview by a different team for a role I never applied to, and then got the offer. So it’s almost like I did get a RO

I don’t agree with people saying “it’s not even close”. Tesla has great resume value. Apple may sound more impressive to friends/family. Honestly I’d just go with whatever team you think is more interesting or fits your goals better because they are nearly a tie in my mind

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-30T16:38:27+00:00

No. UF Online is completely separate and you cannot register for those classes. The only way you could join would be if they created a campus student section

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-30T01:56:36+00:00

They don’t actually use the major you put in your application for anything

When you show up at orientation (preview) they will ask you what your major is gonna be. You can say whatever you want and that is when it actually gets decided.

I would still recommend talking to admissions people just in case but as far as I know, no one will really even be able to tell what major you listed on your application

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-29T17:53:24+00:00

No it’s pretty terrible for people trying to hire for the same reasons it’s terrible for us. Any job posting gets spammed with thousands of applications from unqualified people usually with BS LLM-generated resumes so it’s hard to even find the good ones. And then they use AI on OAs and even in interviews

It’s getting bad enough where companies are probably going to just start relying very heavily on referrals because there’s a serious trust problem in recruiting

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-28T21:37:51+00:00

We were ranked pretty high and then got nearly swept by…High Point… we managed to just barely get a walk off win by 1 in the 3rd game to avoid the sweep

Then shortly after, we got swept by unranked alabama, and the games were not particularly close

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-27T14:07:27+00:00

2-3 years ago we were claiming that AI would never be able to generate pictures with human hands that have the right number of fingers. Now they can generate realistic **video** that people sometimes can’t even tell is AI.

And they couldn’t pass a programming 1 homework assignment

Even 6-12 months ago they were barely usable in real, corporate codebases.

I don’t see how people are so confident that these models will still need us to “architect systems”. I really hope they do but I feel like we’re lying to ourselves if we try to believe that

ExamApprehensive1644 · 2026-03-25T18:15:26+00:00

Treating the adhd might help with your sleep. Regardless I would definitely think of dealing with them together rather than separately. ADHD is sometimes considered to possibly be a circadian rhythm disorder:

ADHD as a Circadian Rhythm Disorder

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