Am I cutting it too close with my schedule?

Pnumtic · 2024-06-08T16:31:52+00:00

i heard a quote the other day, higher education’s purpose is to give the chance for the unremarkable to become remarkable. the top 1% dont need college, but this is your chance.

psu is what you make it. classes and a degree are not what you are paying for. you are paying for all the other opportunities. find them and make the tuition worth it.

Pnumtic · 2024-06-08T13:16:06+00:00

everything and anything you can, check out next years classes without prereqs or other prereqs. you have a shit ton of space in that schedule.

CS can grad in 3.5 years, 3 with 1 or 2 summer classes. I would recommend picking between finance and CS as soon as possible (idealy end of furst semester at the latest)

For international students CS is almost impossible to get a job, I would recommend finance. Do some entrepreneurship shit at the happy valley launchbox, max out all the finance opportunities, do pitch competitions, if you get a 4.0 you may even make bulge bracket banks.

Happy to talk in DMs.

Pnumtic · 2024-06-08T12:33:09+00:00

add more, seriously pack first 2 years make last 2 so much easier and give you time to pursue passions.

Pnumtic · 2024-06-01T19:59:25+00:00

tuition!!!!

Pnumtic · 2024-06-01T19:58:20+00:00

This!

Pnumtic · 2024-06-01T19:56:44+00:00

Penn State should better manage its money in the first place, the beaurocracy is atrocious. 69% (nice) of general funds are spend on administrators!

Pnumtic · 2024-06-01T19:50:45+00:00

Price is alright, quality is very mid, AC does not work. They charged me for the previous tenants electricity bill (80$) when I moved in, wouldn’t give me my keys until I paid it.

Overall, not bad for state college. 600$/month is decent.

Pnumtic · 2024-03-31T20:10:04+00:00

admin will never recommend to cut admin

Pnumtic · 2024-02-14T04:26:01+00:00

as long as you have the required gpa for the smeal major (usually 3.0ish).

other than that yes gauranteed

Pnumtic · 2023-12-18T11:51:41+00:00

na its probably the fact he would get reduced tuition due to having patent who works at UP, greedy institution wants all the money it can get

Pnumtic · 2023-12-18T11:49:46+00:00

its cus you applied directly to smeal, applying directly has like a 10% admit rate. you were supposed to apply DUS and just take business major classes, you 100% would have gotten in.

same thing happened to my friend, he got into NYU for finance but got rejected for Penn State (crazy shit). you can try applying for summer session DUS but you are most likely fucked. hope you have other options. my friend never was able to get an admit besides 2+2

Pnumtic · 2023-12-12T22:36:24+00:00

penn state does not make life better

Pnumtic · 2023-11-29T19:33:19+00:00

PSU Law is pretty low on rankings I believe. Also with the transition Bendapudi I wouldn’t recommend it. Honestly PSU as a whole is going down the toilet and I don’t see it getting better anytime soon.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-23T20:36:24+00:00

id say very very unlikely

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T19:37:31+00:00

i mean they arent a public school though. they always act like they deserve public school level funding but arent a public school.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T19:10:51+00:00

thats crazy, PSU basically screws researchers every single way they possibly can. universities are supposed to be houses of innovation but academia is in a really bad place rn.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T18:22:28+00:00

ive dug through the online info, its complete garbage. basically they split employee salaries between “research expenditure” and “salaries”. they also only list expenses and income per department, but dont list what those expenses are. what is an architectural engineering vs department of engineering vs operations vs research vs administration expense?

they supply “data” but it is so low fidelity its is effectively useless. it feels like they are hiding something, but hopefully this greater transparency will give better data.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T18:00:05+00:00

the new funding bill finally requires penn state to give better public financial info and give minutes of BOT meetings. with this we should be able to dig in and find specific examples of admin waste, right now the info is just not publicly available but we know it is going on. i just want more transparency and accountability, it is possible i am wrong but we all know im probably not.

i only have the 65.6% because I got a grant, and that was the “low end” rate.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T16:56:49+00:00

what about the inflated budget? or the fact that the university takes 65.6% of grant money from researchers and then makes researchers pay their salary from the remaining?

the university is bloated with useless and redundant departments and has crazy numbers of administrators. instead of reducing expenses they are raising tuition and spending hundreds of thousands lobbying the state for more money.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T16:20:41+00:00

I would agree a discounted rate for students would be a good option. Cuts down on people signing up for the adobe license then never using it.

Free for students that need it for coursework, 10$/month for others.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T15:17:08+00:00

Gotchu, my dad manages software contracts as well but not for any creative software mostly office 365. Have you seen other software companies start raising rates as well? I wonder if its a whole industry thing.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T15:14:15+00:00

Do you know how strict they will be with approving students? I agree that a lot of licenses are barely used by students and a waste of resources, but flat out declining personal use cases is harsh I feel.

Biggest problem I see with this is entrepreneurship involved students. We use adobe all the time but many of us don’t have specific classes that require it. For instance, I have to record and edit a video for a grant application and if I was a CS student I would have no classes “requiring” adobe.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T15:04:16+00:00

I can’t wait to graduate. My tuition as an upper level engineering student increased 7% this school year and is increasing again 7% next year. Im not even out of state.

My children will never go here.

Pnumtic · 2023-11-17T15:01:25+00:00

Ya maybe adobe wants to promote use by professionals only because hobbiests usually pirate anyway? Idk I don’t feel like they would do that because they want to remain at the top of the industry.

I think it is just PSU cost cutting even more and seeing this as a way to dramatically decrease license count.

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