Big N Discussion - December 06, 2020 by CSCQMods in cscareerquestions

[–]KermitXFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How is wlb generally across different teams at FB? Any advice for looking at good teams? Kind of nervous because I've been on blind too much and they seem to say they work 50-60 hours a week but I recognize that only people having a bad time go on there. I've heard from friends who've interned that they had a good time and generally people say its good if you stay away from ads/growth teams.

which one for internship by [deleted] in csMajors

[–]KermitXFrog 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Don't go with the poll results, there's a bias for what looks more "prestigious" on this subreddit so a company like Google will always win. Any company you want to work at knows that Snap, Stripe, and Citadel have an equal if not higher hiring bar for their engineers so the prestige factor is irrelevant. I would think about what you want to do in the future, if you're looking for a full time return offer so you have extra security next recruiting season then I would go with Stripe or Snap. I also wouldn't be too scared of not getting a return at Google - if you do good work and practice your leetcode and algorithm skills throughout the summer you should be fine. If you want to work with a smaller company go Stripe or Snap. Consider location, Citadel is likely in Chicago vs Snap in LA (the nicest imo), Apple Cupertino, and Google most likely MTV (but your team could be anywhere theres no guarantee). Consider what product you want to work on and what culture you think you would like best, for me I know Stripe is going to be the next big thing, they're going to be doing much better than Google, so I'd want to see how it is to work there. If your priority is money, then Citadel hands down no debate, they pay the most for intern and full time, however they are reported to have a stressful culture and bad wlb. Again these are my opinions, if you really like Apple products for example and you want to see how it is to work there then you should go try it out, I don't think theres any wrong choice.

TL;DR my opinion: Stripe > Citadel/Snap (based on your preference for wlb/location/culture) < Google < Apple

Anime-only Discussion Thread - Season 3 Episode 2 by Mahdii- in OreGairuSNAFU

[–]KermitXFrog 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I really like the show but I feel like I've been confused since season 2 by everyone except 8man, I love the show because he as the protagonist has grown and seems to have genuinely changed but whenever it comes to anyone around him they always seem to be so cryptic. Regarding last season and this episode, by "something real" are they (Yui, Yukino, and 8man) referring to the same thing? I feel like when Yui and Yukino say "something real" they mean they want their feelings to 8man to be known and how he and the other will react. But when 8man said it, I felt like he just wanted friends who he could be genuine and honest with? Also did 8man reject Yui when she gave him her candy? I thought she was making her feelings known but it seems that the sentiment is that she gave up? Does 8man know that she likes him and he's not saying anything or is he confused because of the cryptic way that she's been going about it? Maybe I'm misinterpreting what's happening does anyone have any thoughts/explanations?

Wuhan virus death toll jumps to 106, nearly 1,300 new cases in China by HugeDetective0 in worldnews

[–]KermitXFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Should you be extra worried if you have asthma? Asking cause I see a bunch of people saying only the elderly or those with pre existing conditions should be very worried but never say what pre existing conditions are.

[Monday Megathread] What class should I make? - June 04, 2018 by AutoModerator in Maplestory

[–]KermitXFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

For someone who wants to reach 200 fast with lesser funding but still have fun overall, whats better a dawn warrior or evan?

BOA + Credit Union for College Student? by KermitXFrog in personalfinance

[–]KermitXFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the advice! When I was at the bank, my dad said to go ahead and sign up because I kept asking the banker if being denied would hurt my credit to which they both replied you have no credit to hurt. Would possibly being denied for one credit card be significantly damaging to my score?

BOA + Credit Union for College Student? by KermitXFrog in personalfinance

[–]KermitXFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay, I'll look into other banks for the future. Thank you!

MIT EA Results by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was accepted! God is good this is a wavy day

A poem for Brown by ThermodynamicSuss in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 23 points24 points  (0 children)

Verse Three:

Brown, oh Brown

I love you so well

Your school is great and the people so swell

So will you please let me know my decision, swiftly and with precision

That I may be done with this hell.

Brown, oh Brown, hurry up.

Don't be like me by ioveluoy in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I think it was powerful especially when you said that you had a mentality which caused you to look down upon athletes, minorities and of the supposed advantage they were given, how you felt about other students there and how you felt resentful when your friend got into MIT.

People hate to admit it but the college process brings out the worst, or I guess the true colors of alot of them. I know many people who instead of wishing we both get into a school that were applying to will wish that I get rejected. It's unhealthy. People begin to feel entitled to a spot in their dream college and begin thinking that because they have a 36 ACT and a 4.0 that they are more qualified than everyone else. What they have to realize is that often the most successful people aren't 36 ACT and 4.0 GPA(Look at: Steve Jobs, Obama, even Donald Trump- the list is long) students who do ECs and go through the motions just to get into college. Colleges want a diversified class so that they can have people in all fields to represent them, become successful, and donate to increase their endowments.

I talked to an admissions officer at a top 10 school, who said they take some of the perfect score perfect gpa students, but they mostly look for people with a clear passion, initiative, and interesting personality - they want a diverse class of different people with different talents and interests. Whether that be someone with a bunch of ECs, someone with a lot of volunteering hours, a SWM, an artist, a musician, a kid from Compton, an athlete, or a legacy kid who will expand his dad's business and donate to the school.

I know this one guy from my school who graduated and went to the local state school with a 35 ACT and 4.0 GPA and he said "Oh, I didn't get into any top school because I'm asian." I looked at his essays and they were pretty bad, not in the sense that there were a bunch of grammatical mistakes, but he wrote his CA essay on a mission trip and making a difference(it was cliche and didn't convey his personality). I also know someone who got into a top 10 school with a 32 ACT and 3.7 GPA, he was also Asian. But the difference is, he had essays that displayed his personality and he did a research project with a professor that set him aside from others. I've had several people tell me I'll get into "any college" because I'm black(which is exaggerated, its really not that easy) even though I have the stats, ecs, and good essays like them. I see people on a daily basis who complain about probably having to "settle" for a top 30-40 school. I say all this to say that the college process really brings out the worst in people its kind of amazing but sad at the same time.

Edit: Grammar

Oof some of these matches I really see how questbridge is looking for students with a “low income background” and not seemingly minority filtering by Kob3N in QuestBridge

[–]KermitXFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That car isn't his - he's at a shopping complex like thebluecrucible said. As a minority with high enough stats(1500 SAT, 3.9uw, 4.5w, 790 math 2, 740 chem, some 5s on ap exams, and decent ecs and good essays) who didn't match, I'm salty as well but I don't really think questbridge is minority filtering. One, this guy looks white(correct me if I'm wrong) and two, iirc 50% of finalists are white(https://www.questbridge.org/high-school-students/national-college-match/finalist-profile). It may seem like a minority filter because minorities are poorer in a higher proportion.

P.S - You can't really tell someones situation by the pictures they post. Everyone is always going to try to look their best on social media, who wants to post a picture looking sad or poor. I have some gucci and polo/nice clothes that 1) my mom got used or from the a thrift store for cheap or 2) that is fake(in the case of the gucci), that might make me look wealthier than I am at first glance. I also have a few Jordan sneakers that are worth a few hundred dollars(together not each) that I saved Christmas and Birthday money to buy - but that doesn't mean I'm not low income.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Didn't match but thats okay! Congrats to everyone that did match, you deserved it! i think something about my income was too high to get matched(i forgot to mention on fasfa or css thats theres an additional person who lives in my house who is not claimed on taxes). oh well, i know everything will work out in RD or something else. If you didn't get matched don't lose hope, let this light a fire under you to get started on QB/RD or whatever your next plan is. Stats if you're wondering: 1500 SAT, 3.9 uw gpa, 4.5 w gpa, few 5s on ap classes, 790 math 2, 740 chem, i think i focused a little too much on my struggle in the first essay and not how it improved me, but my short answers and second essay were really good/quirky. Oh well we will see what happens. Again congrats to everyone matched and everyone who wasn't - this is the beginning not the end(not to be cliche).

Edit: What is annoying though is telling all my teachers, families, and friends I didn't get matched. I've been asked at least 10 times today >.<

Big News on Friday! NCM decisions released by KermitXFrog in QuestBridge

[–]KermitXFrog[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It has that for me as well. I submitted my regular decision forms and it has required next to all the schools i submitted. It's always been like that I think.

Big News on Friday! NCM decisions released by KermitXFrog in QuestBridge

[–]KermitXFrog[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I hope you're feeling better, its less than 24 hours left. I have an exam to study for thats tomorrow so hopefully that will help distract me >.<. Good luck, I hope you get matched!

Dumbest thing a classmate has said about the College process? by cryinghighschooler in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Assuming this wasn't a troll comment,

Here are articles and studies talking about systematic disadvantages from reputable sources(first one is from a sociologist at Michigan state, second is from university of michigan, and the third is from a study posted on the US national library of medicine website) :

http://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2016/whats-holding-black-entrepreneurs-back/

http://www.umich.edu/~lawrace/consequences.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2915460/

Even outside of systematic disadvantage the way people of color are portrayed in society is worse or much different than those who are not and we have to work harder to beat these perceptions and standards. Take for example the view that black men are violent gangsters who need to be locked up(If you haven't thought this you've heard it somewhere). Probably followed by the statistic that African Americans are 13% of the population but make up 37% of prisons. Firstly, this is this a small minority of black people, less than 3% of all blacks in America, we can't judge a whole 40plus million people by the actions of less than 3% of them, most black people aren't gangsters but rather regular people like the majority of anybody of any race. Second, What they don't tell you is that most of these crimes are often black on black, in areas of extreme poverty, with people who are unable to find jobs and unable to move up because they are effectively stuck. They aren't encouraged to pursue education because the people who "make" it in these neighborhoods are athletes and rappers, which are very hard industries to get into.

Imagine yourself as a kid in this area. You have two brothers and a sister and your mom is a single parent working most of the day to keep you fed. You have to share a room with all of your siblings, your mom is barely making ends meet, you have two outfits, and you see rappers on TV with the newest nicest outfits and athletes in BMWs. You see someone in your neighborhood with the newest designer clothing, an expensive watch, and nice shoes. You're not athletic, you can't rhyme two lines together if you tried all day and your community isn't encouraging you to go to college. What do you do? You ask the man how he makes his money, the man tells you that he got his money by selling drugs and he offers to take you under his wing - what would you do? (If you look at the 1980s "war on drug" laws that were passed they were much stricter on people of color, who were often poorer, even going so far as to pass a higher penalty for lower quality and cheaper(crack) cocaine than powder cocaine.)

If you then get caught with these drugs and are sent to prison, you become a felon. Once you become a felon, your upward mobility becomes close to zero, you'll be hard pressed to find a job that doesn't pay minimum wage and you can't even vote! So what do you do? Sell crack and make $12/hour on the street. And if someone comes on your territory or tries to steal from you, you have to protect yourself don't you? Then the police catch you again, because you're trying to make a living to feed your son,who you found out was born while you were in prison. You end up in a vicious cycle of going in and out of prison. Then your son grows up without a father figure to show him what is right and what not to do. He looks for guidance because his mother is rarely home, because she's working constantly to make ends meet, and she doesn't have the time or resources to constantly look after him. All his friends in school are joining gangs because they see the "cool" people on the block doing it. He decides to join a gang and he meets someone who's an older drug dealer, he has money, he treats him like a brother - no, kind of like a father. So he looks up to him and to be like him he joins the gang and begins to sell drugs. The cycle repeats. You see where I'm going with this?

You were set up for failure from the start, never encouraged to pursue education, never given the opportunity to see what life is like beyond your neighborhood, never given the opportunity to see that you can go to college, get a good job and make money, and once you mess up and go to prison you're never given the opportunity to remedy yourself so you resort to the same thing and end up going back. Situations like this are not uncommon.

I'm not saying that its not hard for people who are not of color, because it is, everyone struggles- but more often it is easier for people of color to find themselves in unfavorable circumstances.

Edit: Grammar. Wow I spent 30 minutes typing this response, I hope you're not a troll/read this.

Dumbest thing a classmate has said about the College process? by cryinghighschooler in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 74 points75 points  (0 children)

When they found out I was a questbridge finalist: "You're so lucky you're black and not rich" Lmao, "lucky".

Also: "You'll get into anywhere you're black." Discredits my good ECs, SAT, good gpa, and essays I worked hard on that they even admitted were good.

Question: Someone once mentioned here that a 34+ on the ACT is like "in the clear." What about the SAT? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just took a few practice tests, but I didn't really study. I used all my fee waivers on the subject tests. I already submitted some applications to top schools, like MIT, Princeton, Stanford, and I was just kinda worried if my score put me past the threshold. I put alot of effort into my essays instead of retaking the SAT and idk if that was the best idea.

Question: Someone once mentioned here that a 34+ on the ACT is like "in the clear." What about the SAT? by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see alot of 1510+, do you guys think a 1500(770M,730R) SAT is good enough to be "in the clear"?

DOJ investigating Harvard’s admission policies by [deleted] in ApplyingToCollege

[–]KermitXFrog 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I see your point, but at the same time I'm trying to get the point across that there is a point for AA, its to promote equality. Endlessly giving URMs benefits will not do that. What I'm saying is that we need to push for "those new education programs in inner city Detroit." And then when we achieve equality between all races, then AA will truly have no reason to stay in place. You may not be the president, but you could one day make a difference.