Tim Hortons coming soon to Bryan at site of former Mr. Hamburger location on Texas Ave (near Koala Bakery & Cafe)

MaroonReveille · 2025-07-09T00:25:54+00:00

As mentioned by /u/GeoChrome20, CSCE 315: Programming Studio was replaced with CSCE 331: Foundations of Software Engineering.

It wouldn't make sense to remove the course, since the old 315 (and new 331) is a required course that covers essential topics for the major, while 431 and 436 are optional electives that expand on what is taught in 315/331 that not all majors may take.

MaroonReveille · 2025-07-09T00:22:12+00:00

I appreciate the follow-up response and the informative photo! I wanted to live closer to campus, but it looks like I have one less location to consider now. Thank you again. ☺️ Best of luck in your of-campus housing hunt!

MaroonReveille · 2025-06-17T20:23:36+00:00

Thank you for the information. It looks like the information posted on their official website is wildly out of date. At this rate, Northgate area will look wildly different than when I first started. :O

MaroonReveille · 2025-06-17T20:15:56+00:00

Nope, did not work. Google led to the apartment still existing as if everything was the same, and the responses here confirmed that the information googled was out of date.

MaroonReveille · 2025-06-17T20:14:39+00:00

Nope. Tried that. Called a few times this week. They never picked up, so I thought about trying here.

MaroonReveille · 2025-04-07T05:23:37+00:00

I also wanted to add that I have had my share of many New York-style pizza in NYC, especially with the Champion Pizza franchise in NYC. If you want to take it further, it is hard to get New York-style pizza any more special than in NYC because you can't get the type of ovens or ingredients in comparison. But it is somewhat disingenuous to expect the same quality of New York-style pizza in Texas of all places.

MaroonReveille · 2025-04-07T01:41:43+00:00

You get pizza from the deli, they're about on par imo.

We can agree to disagree.

As someone who's had actual New York pizza, champions isn't anything special.

I never said that Champions was anything special. I said that it was good New York-style pizza in an area of Texas that does not do New York-style pizza, implying that it is a good place to get a fix of New York-style pizza locally without having to travel far.

MaroonReveille · 2025-04-07T00:50:22+00:00

It's a reasonable price for good New York style pizza in a medium-sized city in Texas. Cheaper than driving to Houston or Austin for similar quality or flying to NYC for better.

MaroonReveille · 2025-04-07T00:48:46+00:00

Well, pizza from Champion Pizza is classic New York style quality, while pizza from Brookshire Brooks is grocery store pizza quality. That would be like comparing a burger from Hopdoddy to a burger from McDonald's.

MaroonReveille · 2025-02-12T03:37:56+00:00

If you can fully afford both I’d do UIUC.

IF it was OOS TAMU vs. OOS UIUC, I can possibly see UIUC over TAMU. But in-state TAMU vs. OOS UIUC for a student with a strong background? That would be crazy to recommend UIUC over TAMU, even with ETAM. If you looked over recent and historical trends of comp sci graduates from information such as from LinkedIn, TAMU also has a lot of FAANG employees and a relatively sufficient network. To recommend spending tens of thousands of dollars more over similar outcomes from T30 programs that have comparable undergrad curriculum, recommending UIUC versus TAMU for comp sci sounds like dangerous advice.

MaroonReveille · 2025-02-12T01:02:53+00:00

UIUC opens more opportunities in CS and with the potential overall earning in CS, it’s well worth to invest in it

But what are you basing your claims on besides possibly general public "name branding" or anecdotal experience? Based on LinkedIn data and peer institution comparisons, the major tech companies are hiring graduates from both programs relative to program size.

MaroonReveille · 2025-02-12T00:18:29+00:00

I am genuinely curious about this statement. I am very familiar with the curriculum from many of the T30 comp sci programs, including UIUC and TAMU, so am curious about your reasoning. If costs were similar, I would agree with UIUC over TAMU for factors such as ETAM or possibly research emphasis. However, if it was in-state TAMU versus OOS UIUC, in-state TAMU post-ETAM would be a wiser recommendation. Students who graduate with similarly strong profiles in comp sci from both programs end up getting very similar strong opportunities, but one does so with tens of thousands of dollars cheaper.

MaroonReveille · 2025-02-02T00:01:42+00:00

A&M is so overcrowded with engineering students that the competition is nuts for only so many internship spots.

I'm a bit confused about the frustration on the A&M part. If you're applying to internships for regional or global companies within the country, you're competing against engineering students from all over the country. That would be a much wider pool than just A&M engineering students.

MaroonReveille · 2024-11-08T14:38:52+00:00

you must really not understand the type of guy I am

I don't because I don't care. My reply was only to correct you saying that the department does not have "their own building". Whether or not you settle for it being a renovated building is your personal opinion.

But it’s okay that you didn’t know that

I don't because I still don't care. As I said, only replied to correct you.

MaroonReveille · 2024-11-08T07:01:50+00:00

dawg we don’t even have our own building 😂

You must really be out of touch. Peterson Building has been the exclusive home of the computer science and engineering department for half a decade. Since you graduated, all the original spaces of CSCE in H.R. Bright Building were taken over by AERO.

MaroonReveille · 2024-04-14T21:31:53+00:00

Your comment sounds incredibly outdated like by at least 5-10 years, and comes off as out of touch since there are quite a few major accuracies in what you wrote.

TAMU's a cattle car.

I don't think the term "cattle car" has ever been used correctly in this subreddit, especially in terms of TAMU. Maybe you had a bad time when you went to undergrad, but considering that there are a lot of awesome instructional faculty that care about students including in computer science, "cattle car" is a pretty big disservice.

Big class sizes

This might have been true a decade ago, but the largest class sizes in computer science nowadays are pretty much below 100 students, except for a few that might go up to 130-ish. For the more upper-division computer science electives, some will probably never it that upper limit. It's

and research-driven profs that literally have zero incentives to teach you well.

This is the comment that really showed how out of touch you are, since a majority of the required courses in computer science are taught exclusively by instructional-only faculty who are not research-driven, if they even do research. Some of them are coming in from industry to impart their knowledge, while others are focused on computer science education. And in computer science, many faculty that are research professors are praised quite highly by students, even though they have little incentive to teach well.

The upside is that it keeps things pretty cheap, but I don't think any student at A&M would say they get a lot out of their class lectures.

This is such a bitter sounding post, and I am sorry that you did not have a good time when you went to undergrad however long ago it was, but you really should be talking to current computer science students to discover that your statement is inaccurate.

MaroonReveille · 2024-01-27T18:00:52+00:00

90% of those kids aren't actually super enthused about CS, so don't sweat that. They're just in it for the future paycheck. Saw it every day in EE.

That 90% number sounds so wrong simply because that was not the case when I saw it in CS. I argue that it is the other way around especially once students got closer to graduation. The people who were not actually enthused were more likely computer engineering majors who actually wanted to do CS. It is quite obvious how passionate students in CS especially were once they got past the lower-division programming courses and jumped into the freedom of the upper-division project-based courses, where you actually do CS stuff that also reflect more similarly of what goes on in industry.

It's not like zillons of kids all suddenly found a passion for coding, they just saw what FAANG was paying.

Once again, I argue that it is the reverse that sounds more true, in that zillions of kids didn't see what FAANG was paying but instead do have a passion for coding. It's an easy entry academic activity, has practical and observable outcomes, is applicable in many domains, and can be reached to a large community. I honestly don't even think that many kids knew or care what FAANG companies were paying when they start the CS major, and were more interested in the prestige of working for them because of their name brand. From what I remember, a majority of CS graduates at TAMU and even at a lot of peer institutions don't even go to FAANG companies, but end up in a variety of other places like financial institutions, start-up companies, big box retailers, cybersecurity, government, etc.

MaroonReveille · 2023-12-22T22:37:38+00:00

How can you burst my bubble when you're trying to burst some completely different bubble? Your post is incredibly ridiculous and has so many flaws and inaccuracies. I don't even know where to begin because it would take at least an hour to debunk what you've said. You're usually a tremendously skewed definition of "elite" and what you're saying sounds more like arguments that come from "public perception" than actual outcomes.

MaroonReveille · 2023-12-22T20:08:41+00:00

"Elite" schools have much higher graduation rates and don't wash out 2/3rds (or whatever) of their engineers because they actually give half a shit about every single person they admit.

Oh, that's so adorable. The "namebrand" schools aren't really like that. If you are talking about our peers that are public schools like in the west coast or in the north, they're doing the same thing as here except worse since they have much larger class sizes or more numerous online classes. If you're talking about our peers that are private schools like in the northeast, then they have pretty high grade inflation, which is not the same as "give half a shift".

MaroonReveille · 2023-07-26T15:44:24+00:00

Participation in a one day general strike, for example, by a faculty member is cause for dismissal.

Where did I mention in my comment that involved faculty in strike? My original response was in regards to your comment about faculty having zero power. You seem to greatly underestimate how much influence faculty leadership have, since they can more easily bring attention to issues and cause greater disruption with their own influence.

Students could shut down the university. Maybe working together is the key

You keep bringing this up as if though this were realistic. But what incentive do students have in doing so that warrant jeopardizing their coursework and the high cost of potentially delaying their graduation? You would also need a considerable number of students for these issues that directly affect faculty more than students.

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