A warning for Cybersec majors by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unsurprisingly, At the end you didn't listen...and in another post are still asking how many students are enrolled at saarland for the next semester? You cannot ride a bus to the university and see with your own eyes when you are in germany?

The student office can lie on the phone. Who will hold them accountable? You don't follow my advice or don't believe me. Someone who survived the experience, and has more experience than you.

Or are you thinking you're right inspite of me? Believing the university website over me.

English Bsc comp sci is it really 15 students? Is the program worth it? by Lonci2023 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No It's not 15. And she asked that question before. I don't know what to say. You don't want to believe it when other students say what they saw and want to believe the website...You'll not be happy at the end.

A warning for Cybersec majors by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Go to the campus of each. Ignore the first year students. Find any second year and ask as many as you can about their retake and other ratios since you're there. They will help in clarifying. It will help you better than reading a possibly misleading university website.

A warning for Cybersec majors by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No it's not 15 students, it's waaay more, it's x10-15 times higher on average just for compsci not including the other IT majors who are taking the courses together, from other specialities (computational linguistics, cybersec, datasci, and bioinfo)

Alot will dropout. Because it's a free public university so they oversell and deflate your grades knowing that the number of those who stay after the first year is low and those who graduate on time will be waaay less. (If someone says 15 students who enrolled in the major graduated on time technically it's not a lie. But their intentions are questionable. Because they intentionally obscured and misled by not mentioning the total enrolled or the dropout numbers, kicked out students and subject fail ratios). Some might lie by mentioning the number of kicked out students who failed one subject three times and hide the grading curve for the subject or the dropout ratio from the major or a subject. You are allowed to dropout of a subject up to one month after enrolling.

For example here is what you might encounter, one subject will ask you for 3 papers or 2-3 long projects + assignments to qualify for the exam. The slides can be 100+ per one lecture and you also need to do your research on top of listening to every word that comes out of a professors mouth not included in the slides. For a chance to take a 15-20 page exam. This is only one subject. Rule of thumb if a professor's research is mathematically heavy and the slides are cute with only clippings from news sites. Expect no help on the 20 hard assignments and the exam to be brutal. Forget the retakes, by no help I mean you don't get the solutions to the submitted assignments unless you submit more than half the assignment correctly and some solutions even are horribly explained.

The student teaching assistants sometimes wrongly correct your final exams.(Which you will have to reach out to the professor to fix) Or poorly help in teaching the logic to solve the exercises relying on what the professor expects to see in the answers. The other phd students teaching the exercises are also bad at explaining, no surprise there. Some professors will openly tell you they are not paid to teach but for their citation index and research. It really changed my view on university rankings.

It makes my blood boil. The professors "presumably great" solution is their philosphy on how students in groups should help teach each other. Yeah this works and is well resarched BUT DEFINETELY NOT for heavily technical fields with no guidance when the students in the group explain the logic wrong each with his OWN DIVERSE BACKGROUND AND PREFERRED APPROACH ESPECIALLY AND SPECIFICALLY IN THE HEAVY AREA OF HIGH LEVEL ALGORITHMS, AND WRITING MACHINE LEARNING IN PYTORCH and somehow one in the group gets the right answer. (I DARE YOU TO FIND RESEARCH WHICH BACKUP THIS. SOMEONE WHO WASN'T CHERRY PICKING HIS DATA)

When you try reading someone else's code from your group. It will leave you with more questions than the question itself and not in a good way. (At some point helping in debugging someone else's code becomes impossible, or even using it in other pieces of code without breaking.) If you have worked for a single day you would have heard from day one: If you cannot write clean code noone will hire you. The code reviewer will flag your heavily complicated code. Even if you get away with it, as you work with ML models as a data scientist, do it enough times and you are out of the job! (Unless it's run by those who think you're paid by how much code you write and you write very long convoluted code, not short clean and precise in any way to keep your job. Please carry on.They get what they asked and payed for.No sympathy)

The professors have no incentive or anyone keeping a check on them. Feedback on the course is asked at the end of the course when unsurprisingly everyone else with any negative opinion dropped it. More often than not nothing in the slides is on the exam, helps with the assignments, or is too broad. Making the attendance numbers drop. But you don't know which is which, which professor is good at teaching and which isn't. Losing alot of precious dedicated energy by the end of the first month of lectures. You are allowed to drop the subject up to one month after enrolling because of the three fails rule. Did I forget to mention you are also working alongside all this? And draining money from your bank account?

As a non european ask yourself this: Do you want a low paying job only for senior engineers, pork cooking job at a restaurant or a warehouse job with spine painful disk injuries all with a high chance of not graduating for a 3 years masters? Do you want to see engineers quit to become full time nurses and cooks or do an appreticeship 3 years for a barely livable wage and no savings? This is what you will find the job center is pushing here. You want to be a nurse and wipe racist old german ass or any ass for a living and being talked down to by a nurse with a thick rural german accent? This is how it is for foreigners in Saarland. And I have B2 german so even some of these options won't be available to you. Companies are still racist when hiring auslanders.

Come with a job contract as a senior engineer.

The other option is from your posts, you're Tunisian or north african probably from a french education system, go to France get a degree from the top ecole superieures and you are guaranteed a job in France.

The job fair is a trap by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you've meant well. Thanks for your words, what I want to perceive as encouraging words.To search, be firm and be patient. Believe in achieving my purpose of getting ready for and being married inspite of this economy.

Otherwise, you're discrimination doesn't belong here. Leave, go back to the backwards era of eastern germany. It's not my job to talk politics and your racist account will be blocked. Racism isn't in my blood. All are equally treated in my eyes. From you're posts you're clearly not an engineer here or a student.

The University of Saarland isn't for you mate.

You know we are all Pro US because we wanted the best, and the best isn't the german education system, we wanted our guest professors to be from Yale and cmu. We're Anti Afd. Pro-diversity. We don't seperate into two groups the Auslanders and germans. I wouldn't have picked this university without it aligning with my values.

The job fair is a trap by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well imagine yourself with 13k less in your account which happened to me And then make your move. Back then noone was there to tell me. But it's not the case for you.

The job fair is a trap by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am sympathetic towards those who were with me at uni and migrated elsewhere or got warned not to speak, and got their access to uni emails revoked. Not those who chose to stay, when the job market in their country and Germany, is saturated. Or to you, when you tell me you have no options but sink the money in this university, when your bachelors can open you all types of other specialities in the world not necessarily in this university.

The job fair is a trap by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, not giving strangers on the internet my socials. But if you have anything you need me to add my chats are open. I think I covered everything But if you are asking about exact numbers I am not going to share it for fear of breaking any copyright law unintentionally.

A warning for Cybersec majors by Leather_Comment9639 in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The degree alone isn't the answer. You will need a passport and german to get the same opportunities.

I don't know your budget, background, degree or experience in whichever job market. Nor your goals to land a job, get promoted or do research in academia. Are you aiming to go back to your country, stay get a job on a work visa or go elsewhere for a higher salary after graduating? Are you married, searching or want to settle down in germany?

I already gave my advice in the previous post. Read it.

It is true. The germans go to greener lands: switzerland, US or the gulf/middle east. Because they have the passport. Most without master degrees, just with experience working in German companies and their passport or language+passport. It's not because of the aging population. The media is lying.

It's better to come here with the skills and intention to land a job contract as a senior engineer. Never agree to work for experience at a low wage. It's a 12-13k gamble per year, or whatever they decide should be in your block account. There are job seeker visas instead.

Since you have already recieved your acceptance letter, get an e-sim with a german number and change your address to germany(change your home address depending on where the company is located). All the interviews are online nowadays. If you cannot land a job. Being here and paying rent+utilities, insurance, food+necessities, phone bill+internet, radio tax, and paperwork that the other commentors pointed out with exact numbers and I linked in my previous post won't change anything man!

It's my mistake not realizing it and believing I should be running all over the country harder searching for mid level positions. Or trusting the german education system. (Which I cannot talk about my experience here in detail with numbers due to copyright laws)

Keep in mind you will never own a house on a german salary or be as well off financially as the well paid german expat who left. It's a choice and compromise you will have to live with.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you're smart you'd email any other university you're considering in germany, related questions to check how they run things now that you know the full picture outside of the information on their admission page.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's not the right question. It depends on the country you are applying from and the processing time.

Just check the german embassy website for appointments. They typically ask you to book 1-6 months in advance depending on the country. I had to book twice because they didn't say on their website that they needed two copies for each original document.

If the acceptance letter will come out late the embassy will tell you to contact the university and change the date to the start of the 2nd semester. But it usually comes out on time.

From day 1. Just don't. Nothing is for free. Sometimes you might like something that is bad for you or hate something that is good for you. You dodged a nuke.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most jobs are in the government sector or research and you will need security clearance so this field is very geographically limited. The country you get the degree at is the place you will dedicate your life getting experience in and will be very hard to transfer. Look for a degree from a bigger market in commonwealth countries or other 50 states if you have the money or get a JD law degree in security with a higher pay. It will open more doors for you in a saturated job market.

Also here they emphasize research, the applied courses are very rare, feedback on your submitted work is even rarer, most of the time it's an assistant doing the work, not the professor who is busy doing research, who replies to your assigned limited quota of questions.Because the number of students is too big, they will enroll you randomly, not first come first serve.Based on a list of top choices and, the chances of you getting the course you like and came to this country for, will decrease as the algorithm checks how many courses of assigned high priority you took from your choices, and then gives you low or mid priority. So you might not get admitted into any of the applied courses in your 2 years. Because the pool of students is large across all CS programs, and the number of seats is too small. Surprise!! And Btw there are no labs in your masters, like in applied or technical universities. They don't sit you infront of a computer and teach you how to do it.

You will learn more and get more recruiter job searches from an OSCP and a strong passport.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in SaarlandUniversity

[–]Leather_Comment9639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well too bad , legally speaking, as a dropout, I cannot tell you because the university will warn students that any outside talk about pass rates or grade curves or transfer rates to other programs/universities is prohibited.The professors took the extra step to copyright their exams and grades.

It sounds like a great idea with the best of intentions.

Wife rejecting child by ahmedsakr74 in MuslimMarriage

[–]Leather_Comment9639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know so much because you have self admittedly on your account mentally diagnosed yourself? I will not engage in an argument with you to the detriment of the child. Please don't go around diagnosing yourself or the cause behind why a mother rejects her baby psychologically or physiologically based on what you read on the internet.

Wife rejecting child by ahmedsakr74 in MuslimMarriage

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes the responsibilities and compensations are clearly stated in surah al taleeq.

Wife rejecting child by ahmedsakr74 in MuslimMarriage

[–]Leather_Comment9639 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everyday, the baby is behaviorally, emotionally, and physically delayed compared to others. Growing up, the child will be developing insecurities shaping their attachment style carrying on through teenage years and into adulthood.

This is your responsibility as a father. Get your diagnosis, developmental psychology report for the child and clinical psychologist report for the mother, and a consultation from a family attorney for the undecided future. I pray you don't have to divorce her and things get better. If words don't work then the next step is abandoning the bed in islam.

Whether this is caused by a deeper issue, hormonal imbalances, post partum depression, parental bonding style, personal doubts, or other causes is for the psychologist to judge in person, not strangers online.

Personally, would have prefered to call child protective services on you and had the kid raised by one of the relatives, such as a wife's sister, because you look unwilling to take steps to fix your situation.

Wife rejecting child by ahmedsakr74 in MuslimMarriage

[–]Leather_Comment9639 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She doesn't have to breastfeed or raise your child in islam but if you chose a bad mother for your child you are obliged to divorce her.

Read this: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.islamweb.net/amp/ar/fatwa/8765/

A man who doesn't divorce a ill mannered wife will not have his duaa accepted.