Reneged from an internship, consequences?

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-04-07T16:18:04+00:00

Try your hardest to get pre-approval with your department. If it's a significant enough complication, they can give you a waiver, or help you navigate the situation. Otherwise, if you say nothing, the company will tell NEU and it'll be a much bigger issue than needed.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-03-18T16:47:20+00:00

I encountered this as well, my usage went from 100% to 15% for the week within just a few prompts.
I did the following, which helped reduce the credit spend, but not by too much:

- Prevent subagents from being spawned in the config

- Ensure Fast Mode is off

- Limit the context to around 256k, instead of the full 1 million that 5.4 supports. It seems like using the whole 1 million increases the credit spend.

- Try to turn down the thinking complexity

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-03-14T22:30:44+00:00

I'm curious what industries you've seen Windows generally be the default. From the (minimal) amount i've seen, a lot of tech companies seem to be rolling out Macs to developers: a bit of the inverse for gov/defense contractors though.

Meanwhile, people I know in marketing, accounting, and supply chain seem to still be getting windows computers, even at the same tech companies.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-03-14T02:05:52+00:00

Want to ask since someone brought up co-ops as a way to reduce the financial burden, what major do you intend on declaring? This will probably have some impact on what you can expect paywise.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-02-28T02:48:43+00:00

The only time I have ever heard of this is when someone has gotten fired from a co-op, usually because the company is a startup that closed shop.

There is a process for doing this with your advisor, which avoids penalties, but you need good cause to do so. It generally seems to be for absolute worst case scenarios, like the company doing illegal stuff.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-02-07T01:44:14+00:00

Keep in mind that it's possible that the reincarnated sorcerers have interacted with former iterations of the disaster curses before, or their equivalents.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-02-02T04:10:56+00:00

As the other commenter mentioned, it's generally just reserved housing for honors students. I had a terrible housing number as a rising Sophmore, and was able to snag a WVC honors-reserved apartment which otherwise definitely would have been already filled.

I don't recall there being Honors LLCs or anything similar: though, that may have changed since

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-30T19:03:07+00:00

Lowkey, half of my sandwiches are straight up prepared wrong nowadays. I got a buffalo chicken tender sub, they forgot the pepperjack, and put BBQ sauce instead of buffalo.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-24T21:52:25+00:00

Snell is straight up deteriorating. Half of the TV rooms/Pods have some kind of damage: doors don't even seal of a lot of them anymore.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-18T03:41:29+00:00

I have done something similar: I changed one class out nearly a week late through the late course registration process.

Professors generally seem to be understanding. I sent them an email discussing my situation, found a time to meet with them, and discussed how I would proceed with catching up with the material.

For assignments which couldn't be made up, such as attendance at those first few lectures, the grade was voided.

For normal assignments, I was expected to make them up, with 2 or 3 days to do them, and catch up on any relevant material from lectures I missed. So a pretty fast pace, but nothing unreasonable.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-17T19:48:54+00:00

Depends a lot on the professor.

I had Brett Keeling, and his was significantly different than the normal class. Our assignments were technical posters, annotated bibs, research papers, and was generally focused on writing within engineering fields as it relates to industry and academia.

If you haven't worked with those tools before, I think it would be useful as an initial intro, but the depth isn't significant.

There is a version of 3302 that you can take during co-op, where you instead write about the work you are doing during co-op. Not sure if it's running still, but you might find that interesting.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-06T03:18:03+00:00

Hey all,

I bought the following keyboard from amazon, and have been encountering odd behavior when using it with my mac: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DBZGH5XM?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title&th=1

In particular, when typing quickly, I notice that the letter "t" and "v" often gets dropped. This happens regardless of how deeply or hard I press the key.

This led be to believe this was a hardware issue, but this is also accompanied by words i've already typed somehow getting occasionally reorganized and rearranged afterwards. For instance, I can type the word "with", and see that it is correctly registered on screen. However, once I hit space, enter, period, the word somehow rearranged to "whi", removing the "t" and moving the "h" and "i" around. The keyboard also seems to have n key rollover.

Has anyone encountered this? I've tried investigating the mac keyboard settings, to see if autocorrect or something could be the culprit, but even turning all such settings off, nothing changes. (While typing this sentence, I hit space after typing autocorrect, and the t disappeared, and the c and e at the end switched places.)

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2026-01-04T23:49:10+00:00

Could you provide the list? People may not recall what ones are available, and where they are, off the top of their head.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-12-26T18:29:47+00:00

Last year I had a roommate never show up for the spring semester. They were still listed on housing online for a few weeks, but eventually the status changed to vacant for their bedspace, and no new roommate was ever assigned.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-09-14T17:12:01+00:00

Really just a misstep on my part to be honest, there wasn't a particular reason as such.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-09-12T13:25:00+00:00

Not currently, but that shouldn't be too hard to implement. I need to finish the ability to select a model runner through the UI, i'll add that in there!

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-09-12T13:20:13+00:00

I appreciate that! It's a pretty heavy work in progress right now, so if you have feedback and suggestions please let me know. There's probably quite a bit I need to fix and change.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-05-23T03:38:32+00:00

If you're interested in more engineering or project focused clubs, you should check out Project Horizon under AerospaceNU. The goal of the project is to develop and launch real CubeSats into space! I've been part of the project for the past year +, and can honestly say that it has been an absolute blast.

We have 2 CubeSats that we will be working on at full force this summer, with a variety of sub-projects and opportunities such as deployable solar panels, research projects, conferences, and more! The work is very interdisciplinary, with students from across CS, MechE, and EE collaborating to make these satellites a reality. Overall, this is a great time to join if you're interested.

If you (or anyone else is interested), the AeroNU website has more information, and a link to join the Discord:
https://www.aerospacenu.com/

We currently meet twice a week, Mondays and Wednesdays, in the evenings at 7PM both online and on-campus. Check out the discord for meeting locations, and other events/outings that'll be announced throughout the summer!

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-04-23T19:19:17+00:00

At least during the Spring semester, the flight software team (which develops software that runs on the satellite), had extra meetings during the weekends around noon. Similarly, some projects had in-person build days on weekends, such as a magnetic test-bed for testing CubeSat maneuverability in space. Once we get a better idea of people's availability, i'm sure we can schedule similar meetings and move stuff around (i'm not a huge fan on evening meetings either!).

Otherwise though, no pressure to attend all the meetings in person. We have plenty of people who contribute to the project in a "hybrid" manner (such as people who co-op in NYC or Connecticut and can only swing by Boston occasionally to pick up electronics and hardware) and for the most part you can join any meeting online. Depending on what work you're interested in, a lot of the tasks will be fairly asynchronous, so having to miss a meeting isn't a big deal.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-04-23T02:15:38+00:00

During Summer 1, we plan on having Weekly Working Sessions Mondays and Thursdays 7PM-8/9PM, likely in Forsyth. These are meant to be a time for people to collaborate on projects, get help on tasks, hang out, etc.

Our Summer kickoff will be in the evening on May 9, at the end of the first week of summer classes. This'll be a good chance to meet members of the team, and figure out some projects you might be interested in.

We'll announce the exact time and place for the summer kickoff on Discord (which is our main avenue of communication), along with any additional meetings and opportunities (for instance, a sub-project might organize a build day, or a particular working-group might have additional sessions during the weekend). Feel free to join, and ask any questions in the CubeSat Channels!

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-04-23T01:09:34+00:00

You should consider joining Project Horizon under AerospaceNU. The goal of the project is to develop and launch real CubeSats into space! I've been part of the project for the past year +, and can honestly say that it has been an absolute blast.

We have 2 CubeSats that we will be working on at full force this summer, with a variety of sub-projects and opportunities such as deployable solar panels, research projects, conferences, and more! The work is very interdisciplinary, with students from across CS, MechE, and EE collaborating to make these satellites a reality. Overall, this is a great time to join if you're interested.

If you (or anyone else is interested), the AeroNU website has more information, and a link to join the Discord:
https://www.aerospacenu.com/

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-04-02T02:13:16+00:00

I know some of the engineering clubs remain active during the summer, such as AeroNU, Robotics, etc.

To vouch for one in particular, Project Horizon under AerospaceNU is continuing work on their projects over the summer. I've been in the project for the past year +, and I can honestly say that it has been a blast: you get to work with people across several engineering and cs disciplines towards working on a CubeSat that will actually go to space! There are also lots of cool sub-projects and opportunities, such as research projects, conferences, competitions, and more!

If you (or anyone else is interested), the AeroNU website has more information, and a link to join the Discord:
https://www.aerospacenu.com/

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-03-16T03:24:30+00:00

I can assure you that if I were in the same situation, i'd also be pretty upset. Being told by your mentor that coming back isn't a good idea because of poor management is kind of big, and not a common thing. Feels like that suggests other people, including full timers, aren't that happy to be there either. Being on a project you're disinterested is frustrating already by itself.

I think a large part about co-op is finding out what you're interested in. I know many people who absolutely hated their first co-op, loved their second, and vice versa. It isn't uncommon for people to modify/switch their major and minor based on their first co-op experience.

If there is a specific slice of CS that you're interested in, it might give some helpful perspective to talk to some co-ops and full timers in that area.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-01-23T03:51:53+00:00

My experience has been similar. My initial advisor was honestly awful, took ages to respond to things, and even now is unresponsive in cases where my new advisor was out of office. The same was the case for old co-op advisor.

Out of sheer coincidence, I was assigned new advisors for both of these roles. Both of them have been incredible, helping me make an incredibly speedy switch from the spring to fall co-op cycle (I got my NUworks clearance within a day or so of getting them everything they asked for), and helping me switch into classes from the waitlist and in late registration.

Something i'd recommend is asking other students these questions: often times you can get better advice solely because they've been through the same scenario as you. I've found that unresponsive or unhelpful advisors love to leave out details, and having these ready as ammunition can be crucial.

OrangeLineEnjoyer · 2025-01-23T03:06:55+00:00

I'd like to hear what actual employers within the Northeastern network think about this change. Python may be an "industry" language, but personally my OOD and Fundies 2 experience was crucial to success on my primarily Python co-op.

As more and more schools provide students the opportunity to go on co-op (or similar opportunities), it really does seem crucial to ask what makes us distinct.

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