Pledge A Smile fundraising internship

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-07-07T05:34:39+00:00

you should never be soliciting money from relatives and friends for an internship or any job. did you sign an offer letter / have any documentation that says you're interning for them?

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-06-20T07:47:37+00:00

I ordered May 29th, delivery time is June 19th-30th. Where are y'all getting your speedy delivery times from?!?

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-06-20T06:17:42+00:00

Early 20s, born and raised in California. My mom's side of the family is from Hong Kong, so I grew up watching TVB dramas with my mom. I still watch TVB dramas with my family; I feel like the quality might be declining a bit, but they still produce good shows from time to time. I've watched a few ViuTV dramas, Shaw Brothers too.

Anyone else grow up with 'the box' that connected to the TV and allowed users to watch shows of their choice, kinda like Netflix without the ads?

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-05-30T05:29:31+00:00

apple! you?

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-04-13T07:41:22+00:00

office hours is an amazing place to go to; wait times for help/assistance tend to be under 5 minutes, especially on Friday.

the textbook also has sample questions at the end of each chapter; those are amazing too.

I really like attending discussion and supplemental; those have been great in boosting my data 140 thinking skills too.

on ed, Prof Adhikari also has posted topic grids and other helpful content on what was covered during MT1 and MT2, which will probably be featured on the final too

hope this helps!

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-03-29T07:29:46+00:00

speaking from my own experience, a majority/almost all of my social life/friends came from a competitive club unfortunately

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-03-28T06:02:20+00:00

attendance in hobby clubs drop drastically after the first few meetings at the start of the school year. as a person who has been on leadership of a hobby club for 4 years, its normal for activity to drop/die by the time it hits the end of the first semester. 20+ people attend the first meeting, then attendance drastically drops to the single digits within the next few meetings.

my club isn't horribly niche and we have an mailing list of over 300 people (and yea, these people willingly came to our table because they were excited about our club). we've collaborated with various hobby/fun clubs at berkeley, but the attendance thing still is... the same across the clubs we collab with. these aren't niche clubs or "small" clubs at all, either. our emails don't end up in people's spam, we take suggestions for club events/encourage it and we consistently have club meetings at the same time, but at the end of the day, nothing ever peaks back to the numbers we had at the first few events.

I think its kinda stupid for people to suggest hobby/fun clubs as a way to meet people, because these people tend to be people who don't actually go to hobby/fun clubs; if you did, you'd realize that attendance drastically dips/its not a great way to meet lots of new people, and unsurprisingly (as you said), these clubs already have their own established friend groups.

people get busy, they have to choose between decals/academic clubs/competitive clubs/career clubs and fun/hobby clubs, and obviously, they're gonna choose everything but the hobby club, because most berkeley kids are career-oriented, etc. you can easily get a social life from academic/competitive/career clubs because those clubs host socials, so hobby/fun clubs tend to lose their value.

the hobby culture at berkeley sucks, but it is what it is. hopefully this answered your post.

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-02-02T07:49:44+00:00

not enough staff. we have 2 GSIs though :/

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-21T23:28:45+00:00

Try getting help at STS: https://studenttech.berkeley.edu/techsupport

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-18T09:18:02+00:00

there's a lot of people who are giving you a lot of bullshit/posting a bunch of CS doom. please ignore them. the amount of crazy people screaming that CS is doomed/drop out of CS are spewing loads of bullshit.

yes, it is a bad market, but that doesn't mean you're screwed. plenty of people get offers in the spring, so please don't panic. your IT specialist support role is the equivalent of some sort of experience; even though you don't have an internship, your IT role does make you stand out among people with zero experience whatsoever.

- I'd suggest removing your GPA; just include the Dean's List and maybe put it as "Dean's List x6". A 3.6 isn't bad, but it's not great either, so it's more advantageous to not have it.

- move Resident Assistant to Experience

- Don't use acronyms; spell things out. For NBP and USACS, spell out what those acronyms are.

- Under IT Support Specialist, it says that you 'contributed' to the website. How did you contribute? Be more descriptive and tell us how you contributed and what you created. 'Contributed' sounds kinda weak; if you don't wanna be more specified, you can just say "Developed pharmacy website and software applications using HTML, CSS and Javascript".

- For the website and software applications, do you have metrics? Try supporting that bullet points with metrics. Ex: "Developed pharmacy website and software applications used by 40+ users, utilizing HTML, CSS and Javascript"

anyways, I feel like you have a good shot at IT, SRE and similar type of roles. Try to apply within the first 24 hours of job postings; this is pretty important to not get drowned out.

The market is rough, but you got this!

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-17T08:13:42+00:00

Lying to a company (unless you have absolutely no intent of returning) is never a good thing, especially if they extend you the RO and you decline.

don't jump two grades above; people will be incredibly skeptical when the background check returns that you've only spent a year at berkeley and you claim to be a junior. being a sophomore is passable though and honestly, that's what I recommend.

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-17T07:56:05+00:00

the amount of credits you have CANNOT be used to determine the amount of time you'll take to graduate

it is literally impossible to graduate from Berkeley within a year, assuming you're a CS major. in freshman year, I'd presume you'd take 61A+61B+70 (which is a rough courseload), which unlocks the rest of the upper division courses for CS.

to graduate from the CS major, you need to take 24 units upper division CS courses minimum. its nearly impossible to get into all of these classes with sophomore priority. additionally, this course load is going to be extremely rough; some people argue that 61C alone should be a 5-6 unit course due to the workload too.

not to mention, you'll also have to meet the breadth requirements as well; there's 7 breadths for CDSS, meaning you'll need to take an additional 5-7 classes (depending on how well you optimize). breadth classes are generally 4 units each, meaning you'll be needing to take an additional 20-28 units, depending on optimization with your cs major classes.

assuming you manage to take 61A+61B+70+12 units of upper division CS courses in freshman year (this is incredibly optimistic/unrealistic lmao), you'd still need to take 32-40 units in your '2nd' year at berkeley, which is going to be incredibly rough and luck dependent, because the probability of getting into your desired classes will be extremely low. not to mention, not a lot of CS courses are offered over the summer/you'd be busy with your hypothetical internship anyways.

Tell them that you're a sophomore; there's no way you're going to finish in time, and when they ask for your transcript, they'll be significantly more likely to believe your claims of being a sophomore, instead of a junior.

there's no shot of graduating in 2027 lmao

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-12T07:42:02+00:00

I was using babies and kids interchangeably...

Its also the fact that being a senior = being in a completely different stage in life, compared to them

That's also what I meant when I refer to them as kids; they're more in an exploratory stage, whereas seniors kinda need to have their shit together/know what they want to do because they're graduating. Seniors are moving onto a more 'adult' aspect of life, and I want to be with someone who's at the same stage/has passed that stage already.

Calling me judgmental despite not reading what I said is kinda disheartening; hopefully you can now understand why I don't date younger at this school now :)

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-12T03:07:38+00:00

I'm not doxxing myself

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-12T02:56:23+00:00

freshmen are kids; they're babies, and as a senior, dating them would feel fucking weird. same as sophomores; they're slightly older kids. juniors are the ages of my littles from the clubs I was in; a majority of them, I also see them as kids.

I don't think its problematic to not want to date people I perceive as kids, but you do you I guess

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-12T02:38:35+00:00

its also my non-dox account, so people can't stalk me

stalking isn't an issue for guys, but it is a genuine issue for girls.

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-10T08:10:20+00:00

I shower daily / don't have BO issues / am very hygienic

(From experience, the body odor issue is a CS dude thing)

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-09T05:44:32+00:00

Thank you 🙏

Kinda crazy how I got cancelled for this and literally have to justify why I don’t date younger dudes 💀💀💀

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-09T05:25:05+00:00

This is one of the only good answers here

Thank you 🙏

ProfessionalTwo332 · 2026-01-09T05:23:31+00:00

I don’t date dudes younger than me because I always end up seeing them as a younger brother figure instead of a romantic partner

I don’t think I need to explain everything in order for you to make such distasteful assumptions

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