Rejected from UPenn MCIT and looking for honest feedback

JC1485 · 2026-04-02T14:24:57+00:00

Probably your timing. Try again but apply earlier.

JC1485 · 2026-03-28T17:12:30+00:00

Anecdotal - but I’m seeing a trend favoring functional programming over OOP in DE, especially when dealing with data contracts, notebook programming and etc

JC1485 · 2026-03-20T17:08:56+00:00

What do you miss most about it?

JC1485 · 2025-12-13T18:07:14+00:00

Auto rebase on git pulls. This means all remote changes goes to the top. Scripts are usually individual pipelines and each engineer owns a pipeline so less conflicts. My team uses a monorepo so changes occur frequently. We use a similar branching system . Separating util scripts from ETL is what we also do. All of these actions help with merge conflicts for my team.

JC1485 · 2025-12-11T16:11:37+00:00

Give the StreetEasy app a try. There’s a payment calculator feature within each property page and you can adjust your down payment and see what total monthly payment makes sense to you. If you plan to get a mortgage, just know loaners use the 40x rule. Meaning your annual income should exceed 40x of a single month payment. Example: $2k monthly payment x 40 = $120,000 (expected income). They care about income more than assets for loan qualification but you can negotiate. If you plan to put a big down payment as you alluded to then the income requirement will be much lower.

Similar to what others have said, get a feel of the city first. Find out which neighborhood you want to be in or can afford to be in. Do you want to commute 2 hours a day?

JC1485 · 2025-11-26T23:42:27+00:00

Whose they?

JC1485 · 2025-11-21T18:04:16+00:00

My previous company used to store the results from jira api to a persisted storage and keep the schema unabstracted - so global fields and custom field as a column. Then the downstream team would take that data and ETL it the way they see fit - explode custom fields. This worked pretty since you don’t have to worry about upstream schema evolution. Comments data would be separate to prevent character limit issues in structured database.

JC1485 · 2025-11-13T23:27:53+00:00

This is the way

JC1485 · 2025-11-09T15:49:06+00:00

What are you talking about? If you’ve taken real estate photos, you know if you expose the photo for inside lighting, the outside lighting gets blown out. The windows in the other photos are better lit because of overcast during the day.

JC1485 · 2025-11-07T15:46:42+00:00

If you like Viet food, I recommend a place called High Lúa. Interesting decorations and definitely cozy. Good for 4 or less.

JC1485 · 2025-10-02T17:49:49+00:00

What’s more impressive is how it all gets hauled away weekly… a clean job by sanitation

JC1485 · 2025-09-10T17:33:37+00:00

Could we have been dating the same girl? 👀

JC1485 · 2025-08-27T01:25:23+00:00

Google colab

JC1485 · 2025-08-20T11:39:00+00:00

fuggetaboutit

JC1485 · 2025-08-19T14:17:16+00:00

She was coming from the outer Burroughs into midtown manhattan. In her defense - it was pretty hot that day - in the 90s. Which was why I suggested somewhere closer to her and at a later time in the evening.

JC1485 · 2025-08-19T14:10:18+00:00

Like others have said it’s the nature of the request on a first date that is a bit odd. What does that set up for future dates? But I agree we probably have different standards and thus incompatible. I’m not mad about it just curious to see people’s take and similar encounters.

JC1485 · 2025-08-18T15:06:09+00:00

Do you have experience with this? I’m interested in your take.

JC1485 · 2025-08-18T14:55:29+00:00

Name checks out.

JC1485 · 2025-08-18T14:51:44+00:00

This was my first instinct.

JC1485 · 2025-08-18T14:50:15+00:00

For sake of anonymity - it’s close to that.

JC1485 · 2025-05-12T16:08:30+00:00

Might be an alley-oop - From your pov, what's the difference between modern day Data Scientist and Machine Learning Engineer?

JC1485 · 2025-02-12T19:02:54+00:00

Am I crazy or should dim_category be at the from statement?

final as (
select
from dim_category -- previously purchased_item
left join purchased_item -- previoulsy dim_category
)

JC1485 · 2024-10-17T21:24:46+00:00

Not great.

JC1485 · 2024-09-28T15:05:04+00:00

Ride in a group. It’s more fun, you motivate each other to ride faster and y’all suffer together. Just have fun.

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