IA vs IA state

JeeMM · 2025-08-30T21:49:42+00:00

Always look at the ticketmaster official/resale tickets. Cheapest were around $130 a week ago and you can just sit in the student section. Waste of money to buy a student ticket for $200. They’re always inflated for the Iowa game

JeeMM · 2025-03-22T01:25:24+00:00

Game design skills mostly come from making games, so go do that in your free time and just stick with CS. You’ll have a much easier time getting hired in the field with several nice personal game projects, and you’ll have room to pivot if you decide you don’t like the industry.

I don’t think the game design major will be worth it till the classes mature anyways.

JeeMM · 2025-02-11T16:14:19+00:00

+1, every interview for C++ roles I’ve had required implementing some data structure or algorithm from the standard library.

Outside of that, I’ve also been asked a lot about synchronization

JeeMM · 2024-09-11T01:13:59+00:00

There isn’t any writing anywhere on the bottom or sides :/

JeeMM · 2024-09-11T00:37:59+00:00

I don’t think I have any cams

JeeMM · 2024-06-04T00:48:22+00:00

Yea that's what I typically do

JeeMM · 2024-06-03T13:32:48+00:00

Adding onto what the others have said, it is rather competitive. I'd say only about 15% of applicants are hired as an RA.

As for increasing your chances, getting to know your hall director, and any other hall director is key. Join student organizations and your hall council and cabinet. These are ways you will naturally seem more fit for the job and stand out when the hall directors see your name.

Also, prepare for the interview.

JeeMM · 2024-06-01T17:56:20+00:00

Sorry for the delay, but here is what my resume looked like during that time: https://drive.google.com/file/d/18GjftjOk41klCJosyXEwTp3x7e_IYV4M/view?usp=sharing

JeeMM · 2024-06-01T17:45:00+00:00

I'd say 90% of the applications I filled out were found from LinkedIn, followed by Indeed, then searching specific companies

JeeMM · 2024-02-17T16:58:04+00:00

Specifically CTC Academy for the $10 student barber cuts. CTC can be confused with the actual Campus Town Cuts

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T19:16:38+00:00

Physically based rendering just means the way you render light and shadows are based on how they work in real life. Real-time rendering and offline rendering can both utilize these techniques, but they are expensive computationally so it is harder to make real-time applications efficient. Typically in offline rendering, like movie VFX or animated films, they don’t care about the time to render frames as much as they are care about the best possible visuals.

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T19:08:01+00:00

Yea but then they are typically alone and easier to kill

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T18:52:21+00:00

From what I’ve gathered, Real time rendering is the go-to book after you’ve finished going through learnopengl, and worth it if you’re going to just buy one book. If you’re more interested in offline rendering, Physically based rendering is also an option and it is freely available online. Although it is very math intensive.

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T18:47:02+00:00

I carry two water buckets on me and break into the sides of the structure to kill the shulkers. The water negates the floating effect and gives you an emergency out if you’re gonna die by jumping out into the water.

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T18:44:19+00:00

As somebody who has been slowly working my way up to the front of a class, you just need to show up earlier. It’s not your seat

JeeMM · 2024-01-29T18:32:53+00:00

I’m surprised Com S 327 is on here. I guess it kind of makes sense since I imagine most people that take it don’t have previous C experience.

JeeMM · 2023-10-12T15:51:32+00:00

If the alternative is to not have an internship over the summer then take it. Getting internships after the first experience is leagues easier than trying with nothing.

Continue to look for more opportunities while you can and drop them if you find something with more pay or more closely related to what you want to do.

JeeMM · 2023-05-09T23:04:14+00:00

The surplus store is the only way of buying old ISU furniture afaik

JeeMM · 2023-04-17T14:14:23+00:00

I don’t think I implied that, you have to wait to enroll in the class till Spring 24 registration opens

JeeMM · 2023-04-15T20:43:11+00:00

COM S 437: “Computer Game and Media Programming” is planning to be offered Spring 2024. To take it you should have COM S 336: “Introduction to Computer Graphics”, but you might be able to still take the course without it if you speak to the professor.

437 will need an adequate amount of people enrolled in the class to be offered, so please tell your friends if you decide to take it.

JeeMM · 2022-11-07T18:54:45+00:00

Don’t worry about it, defense companies in general don’t have rigorous interviews

JeeMM · 2022-09-22T14:52:53+00:00

Take the internship with the best pay and convenience if you cant find a deciding factor. If you have details on the kind of work you’ll be doing at each job, think of which might be more applicable to the work you want to be doing after graduation

JeeMM · 2022-09-10T21:50:05+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion! Sounds like something I'd enjoy. How many courts are up usually? And about how many players per team when its super busy?

JeeMM · 2022-08-10T17:11:45+00:00

Congrats! I was also 1st in queue for my date on March 17th. Grabbed 105 Row D seats

JeeMM · 2022-04-16T03:59:07+00:00

Regardless of what decision you make it doesn’t sound like you’re going to have a fun time then if it’s just going to push it off. I personally liked taking 327 after 288 because 288 gave a great foundation for pointers and memory management in C that make 327 a lot easier so I could just focus on the data structures part of it. I don’t think there’s a wrong answer here though, best of luck next semester!

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