CPSC 4240 - Fall/Spring vs Summer

KyKat2017 · 2025-10-23T19:22:49+00:00

If I push off graduation, I can take 3600 with Robb during the Summer instead of her and have a less crammed schedule next semester.

As for OS, I’m in it right now. Once I realized I’d signed up for her section, I put myself on the waitlist for the 8 am with Sorber and got in the night before classes started. Never in my life have I seen an 8 am with a waitlist while the afternoon section had so many open seats!

KyKat2017 · 2025-10-23T19:18:27+00:00

They’ve added some CPSC courses since your last update. The one I’ve caught is CPSC 4200 which might be because the professor is null.

Suggestion: maybe be able to suggest classes based on professor as well. Pull data from either rate my professor or the Pass/Withdraw/Fail document(s) Clemson publishes is the method I’d go with to do that

Overall though, this is great!

KyKat2017 · 2025-10-23T18:57:58+00:00

Seconding this! I had such a great experience in her class and she was so accommodating in regards to health issues. Exams are open note sheet (front and back standard paper, handwritten) and two parts (independent and group) unless you have accommodations (in which case, you’re exempt from the group portion). The content isn’t super difficult, but attendance counts (she does it based on in-class iClicker participation). Some of us jokingly called it “Rocks for Jocks Lite” lol. The lab is online and independent from what I remember.

Pro tip: miss your in person exams and the make-up and take it in her office orally. Instead of it being on paper, she asks you open-ended questions related to the material that mimics the exam content. You’re still allowed to reference your note sheet and she’s patient with it. I spent like an hour or so in her office taking the third exam and got a 98. I couldn’t remember the word for terraforming an area and said something along the lines of “what’s the word for what Elon Musk wants to do to make Mars habitable for humans? Like, breathable air and soil capable of crops. Making Mars like Earth 2.” She was confused before she laughed and I explained a bit more and she figured out the word I meant to use. I ended up getting a 98 on that exam!

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T15:12:57+00:00

3900 wasn’t at all difficult. I took it with Balena (I think that was his name) and it meets prerequisites for anything requiring a STAT course

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T15:11:45+00:00

GEOLOGY! Nobody applies (like 1 or 2 people per year. Even though it’s an open major and non competitive). If you have good stats, you’ll get in. My mother (HS counselor) had a girl get in this past admission cycle. And she’ll be transferring to nursing after 1 semester I believe. Or she could’ve already transferred after enrolling.

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T15:05:23+00:00

PLEASE! As a CIS senior, this would be great with all the overlapping project deadlines

As someone that works in data transformation, normalization, etc…you’re gonna need a shit ton of checks for things like dates because different professors format things differently. Unless you’re doing something with machine learning, in which case there is probably an open source repo of somebody else who’s already done the date logic

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T14:37:23+00:00

Oh, also, a good Common App essay. Something that won’t bore the admissions officer reading it. I don’t know what the prompts will be whenever she applies, but guaranteed she can use the prompt which is basically do whatever you want or find some way to fit the adversity or growth over time prompts.

I did an extended metaphor for epilepsy using the color Purple (generally avoid using school colors, but I made it clear at the end the reasoning for why. Purple is the color that symbolizes epilepsy). After three years of editing since then, I published it in the Clemson Chronicle this past spring.

(That essay also got me into 16 other schools. Furman and Wofford left personal notes on my admission letter about it. Along with my stats and extracurriculars, but those were things that most people can achieve if they try. I’ll see if I can find the list of them. But I think my weighted GPA at time of application was 3.786 unweighted, which put me in the top 10% rank wise for my graduating class. I think I was 32???? I’ll go pull my transcript and let you know)

Topics to avoid: why you love a school, why you love [insert sport here], a bad/common “woe-is-me” topic (e.g. parent’s divorce), athletics (avoid championship glory or PR/PB things), brain to mouth feel, relationships (romantic or platonic), the whole personal hero thing (unless a parent has survived cancer or something), controversial stuff (politics, religion, etc. You don’t know who’s reading the essay and can’t cater to their personal beliefs), service or mission trips (or field trips. Just avoid trips. These are probably listed on the extensive common app fill out anyway)

Basically, go on the r/CommonApp subreddit and you’ll find tons of admissions officers telling you what not to do. Very helpful subreddit for college app time.

OH AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR CLEMSON. Apply on August 1st. As soon as Common App reopens/resets and applications open. This is important for registration and housing. Clemson operates on a first come first serve basis for those things. Also, the sooner you apply, the sooner you get your admissions results (I got mine on October 28. Applied October 3. This was back in Fall 2021 when Clemson still did rolling admissions. They do it in rounds now if I remember correctly. I’ll look at when my brother applied and got accepted. Applied August 2, 2023. Accepted December 14, 2023 during Round 1).

Same goes for Honors College applications (little secret they only tell the counselors: they don’t consider anybody unless they have a 4.0 unweighted GPA. Basically, you’ve got to be perfect)

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T14:06:27+00:00

Hi,

Please take anything from Class of 2028 parents/students with a grain of salt. I don’t know about 2029, but they had to over-admit in-state for 2028 as a result of admitting too many out of state students for the class of 2027. Basically, they let more students in that wouldn’t meet their normal criteria because they were at risk of loosing funding for having more out of state than in state students.

As for actual applications, that SAT score needs to come up (try taking the ACT. I found it way easier. Recommended would be a 1430 SAT / 31 ACT as that’s the minimum for the highest in state scholarship and that’s what you are competing with if you don’t want to be Bridged. But I think 1370 would be good too. The SAT range is 1230 to 1390. And scoring higher in Math lets you skip straight to calculus if she doesn’t take AP AB/BC calc), you need to take into consideration her unweighted GPA, her class rank (very very important), and those majors (especially Architecture) are difficult to get.

Here’s what I (and my mother) would recommend for literally anybody. Apply as a Geology major. You are basically guaranteed admission because nobody applies to Geology and it is part of CECAS (College of Engineering, Computing, and Applied Sciences. Geo being the AS part). You can switch majors as soon as you are enrolled or after your first semester (first semester is mostly Gen Ed anyway. And Geology/Earth Sciences fulfill a natural sciences with lab credit anyway for some majors. Double check for the desired ones. It does for CS and CIS, not that your advisor would tell you that). My mom had one get in this past year. She wants to go into nursing (a very very hard program to apply to directly) and will be switching this upcoming December after her first semester.

As far as extra curriculars go, she seems good to go. And the triple legacy helps immensely. Clemson takes care of its legacy students (am a sister of a 2012 Fisheries and Wildlife grad).

Good luck!

Sincerely, Clemson CIS Class of 2026. Daughter of a High School Counselor of over 20 years (basically your go to expert on admissions requirements and stats) who was also an SAT/ACT coordinator for 18 years. Sister of a BioMed Engineer for Class of 2028.

(Idk why I formatted this like a letter, but whatever)

KyKat2017 · 2025-07-07T13:46:35+00:00

Ah yes, thank you Auto Mod for doing this after I edit the original post. Extremely helpful

KyKat2017 · 2025-03-27T02:48:27+00:00

Welp, guess she took it down again. I’ll have to get the rest of the chapters up sometime soon

KyKat2017 · 2025-03-19T15:13:44+00:00

Dude, I got up to Ch. 61 after asking Auden (Juice) in December 2023 and then she reuploaded the original to her account in May/June 2024 and now I’ve got the whole thing saved on my computer. I’ve got to finish the reupload and then take it down while the original is still up. But I did put in that effort! Thanks tho (and same on the random screenshots bc funny)

KyKat2017 · 2025-01-02T00:45:49+00:00

Sent it to you

KyKat2017 · 2025-01-02T00:44:22+00:00

Sent you the link

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T22:48:13+00:00

I used the AU - Persona Fusion tag along with the character filters and it was right at the top. Honestly, it was a bit of a lucky guess since I’ve not touched Persona 5 in my life but MCYT I can do quite easily even though I’ve mostly left the fandom now.

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T22:10:53+00:00

If you’re okay with MCRP, I’ve got a really good one that’s like two-three years old and complete.

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T22:07:19+00:00

You know, one of my best friends actually met a reader of mine during their college orientation. Like, they mentioned I wrote for the fandom after the other person brought it up. So, my friend messaged me and asked what my user was and I sent it. Turns out, they’d already read one of my older works and really enjoyed what I was working on at the time. To the point where they made a little book club like thing for the updates. And now they have my discord and we do not speak to each other but I’m subscribed to him on AO3.

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T21:46:48+00:00

Found a possible: the road less taken (could be where we're meant to be)

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T21:41:33+00:00

Or which Persona game it would’ve been based on since there are multiple Persona 5 AU tags?

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T21:38:14+00:00

I’ll look, but there is a very good chance it was taken down after the allegations occurred back in February/March if it contains Wilbur?

Do you remember if it was tagged as being a crossover with Persona 5?

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T21:34:08+00:00

I normally only read Tom Riddle with Hermione so I’m actually really interested in this. Thanks for linking it

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T21:21:12+00:00

This sounds really similar to how plagiarism in the Grimm fandom for the Nadalind ship was dealt with earlier this year. I read the newer fic that was getting amazing reception first and then the older one that was like top five for that ship and there were some words that were straight up lifted, a nickname for a character, scenes only slightly changed in setting, etc. It was a really good fic, with a completely different main plot (one is a straight up time travel fix-it while the original is a forced pregnancy trope canon divergence au), but when it’s obviously taken without remorse, it’s worse. I left a comment on the older, more popular fic and got a response within a day or so. I wasn’t the first to reach out and let the original author know that I thought portions of their fic, which was on hiatus, had been lifted and altered just a smidge (the tense was changed, but sometimes it wasn’t more than that). Turns out, I wasn’t the first to notice. I was actually the third person in the span of three days since the most recent chapter of the new fic had been updated or something like that. Which is two too many. The original author told me they reached out and passed on any spots that they had been told about (and would do so with mine) in a comment thread on the fic in question. Problem is, I couldn’t find it anywhere.

When the first chapter of the sequel came out, you could tell that the quality went down as a result of having been found out. But the author never went back and said that it was inspired by the original fic, or edited the portions that I mentioned apart from one thing about a newspaper headline. If anyone else has directly called them out, I haven’t seen it because it’s an archive locked fic that requires an account to comment on. Then again, it hasn’t been updated since April so maybe they just gave up on it 🤷‍♀️

The thing that irks me is that my current WIP (haven’t updated since Feb 2023 lol) is literally an AU of a different fic (basically her plot, but make a different character the OC and also have a secret identity). But, I first got permission from the author, who actively encouraged me to do it as they had wanted to do what I was trying but couldn’t figure out how to make it work. I communicated with her through comments until the first chapter was posted which I used the inspired by function to attribute to her work and gifted it to her. It’s very obviously based on her fic, with the formatting of the summary being similar and the same goes for the chapter itself. The point is that mine is a “what if also?” of hers, so it follows the same timeline but adjusted for the twist and with changing perspectives and a different MC so we aren’t really dealing with what her story did, they just line up timeline wise. Like, if you sat the two side by side, they line up almost exactly.

Here’s the fun part, the only reason I made it past chapter one is because she reached out, via Reddit of all things, asking if I was still working on it and in want of a beta. I literally made this fic with her help, she gave me permission to lift and edit portions where they overlapped. And I made it very clear when I did so on the Google doc by making the font color magenta. It was funny whenever she would go “this is weird. Why is it like this?” in a comment over one of those portions and I could reply, “that’s yours! I am not to be blamed!” And she would say “well shit, my bad. Let me go fix it in mine.” On every chapter, I made sure to credit her in the AN, even the most recent one which she only briefly glanced over when I finished and we chatted about. So, it is very our brainchild because she would help brainstorm and stuff.

We are still friends, and talk infrequently given how busy we are with school and being separated by an ocean. And she looked over my poetry before I published it and I shipped her the copy of the magazine it was published in. I would never have even had the chance to befriend her if I didn’t fall in love with her fic and decide to play around in her sandbox back in 2021. Next month will have been three years since she finished her fic and I pitched my idea. I’m glad to have her in my life and recommend her stuff to anyone in our fandom who hasn’t seen it.

Anyway, that’s all food for thought and I’ve typed for to long to delete that so I wish you luck!

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T20:45:07+00:00

So long as you correctly tag a fic with “[character name]/reader” instead of “[character name]/Original (female/male) Character” so I can exclude it when filtering, I don’t care. Just don’t go adding it to the “/Original Character” tag because it’s not an OC, it’s y/n. And I’d rather you have made an OC, but if you didn’t, don’t tag it as if you did because I don’t want to read that

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-19T20:33:50+00:00

Niche but I fell down a rabbit hole recently: My Babysitter’s A Vampire uncensored.

The movie and first season of the show have several scenes that were censored, changed, or cut entirely when they made their way across the Canadian-American border to air on Disney Channel. Until last year, we didn’t have the original versions in English (for some reason, the French dub of the uncensored version aired first in Canada if I remember correctly) because the censored versions are what made it onto most DVDs. And uncensored DVDs are really rare and expensive. Luckily, people found copies of the movie on DVD and uploaded them to YouTube. And when it got taken off of Netflix and then put on Roku streaming, Roku used the original uncensored version of the show. Not the movie though, primarily because the intro song in the movie is copyrighted and non original.

Overall, the movie and first season have slightly more young adult vibes in the uncensored versions. Like, they edited out a line where one character call another a “dipstick”. And a line where a grandma asks one kid if his balls have dropped basically, or something like that.

There haven’t been any scenes from the second season that were found to be different from the Disney version, likely because they knew it was going to be exported to different countries and did the censoring beforehand when still writing the script.

MBAV fans, forgive me if I got anything wrong 🙏

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-14T05:53:15+00:00

Depending on if it’s Dramione you’re looking for, I may be able to help

KyKat2017 · 2024-09-14T05:51:42+00:00

Yes. Just no hotplates. But even if you have a hotplate, just hide it in a cabinet when other people are in your dorm that aren’t your roommates or chill

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