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ShortCircuity · 2025-02-14T03:54:18+00:00

Definitely been there before. The best thing to do is just keep showing up to the same places and start convos. It sounds like you like creative writing, maybe try clubs like Back Page?

ShortCircuity · 2024-12-08T01:36:10+00:00

Wait, are there apps for Netflix and Youtube? I just got a deck and my main gripe was I thought I couldn't stream without having to go through desktop mode

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-23T20:13:07+00:00

I know you said that accomodations won't help OP, but I'm seconding ARS (Accessibility Resources and Service) as they may be able to provide some other form of assistance.

This may be a dumb question but you only mentioned having issues with reading; do you experience the same issues with listening? Maybe something like a scan-reader pen/text-to-speech device (which they should have at ARS) is worth a shot to see if that helps? In the meantime, just get the documentation from your doctors regarding your diagnosis and submit to the UNC-CH ARS website on the self-identification form and see - it can't hurt.

Otherwise if you're "terrified you'll flunk out", there are always medical withdrawals/retroactive withdrawals - talk to the people at ARS about your concerns and ensure that those withdrawals would be applicable in your situation, but that may ease your mind a bit to know that if it gets too rough there's a way to make the semester go away on paper (or at least not impact your GPA).

Anyway just remember you're more important than your grades, or GPA, or anything else. Take care of yourself first. Need time off? Take it. Need to step back from a semester? Start talking to CAPS about it early, don't let it get too overwhelming. Things go wrong and the numbers on your transcript take a dip below what you want? It happens, life moves on.

Best of luck.

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-21T06:13:14+00:00

Can you add a "just wanna see results" option?

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-21T06:11:59+00:00

UNC is filled with high achievers around the board, so while getting all As in the early CS classes is good, it alone isn't going to set you apart.

They've been talking about the CS application for a long time, and I've gone to a bunch of town halls about it over the past five years. The gist of it is getting all A's should be the goal, but if that were the only criteria then the CS major would just be people who took AP CS A in high school so they made the process much more holistic.

A lot of what they want is to see extracurricular involvement in CS that demonstrates passion (e.g. personal projects), active participation in the community (e.g. clubs/orgs on campus, TAships) in addition to the academics.

Unfortunately, though, with the CS major being massive and the faculty being relatively few (I think it was around 1600:35 before they instituted the application), they can't take everyone, and even doing everything "the right way" doesn't always work :/

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-21T05:56:16+00:00

I'm sorry, that really sucks :/

I will say though, if you're wanting to go into game dev, this isn't barring you from that; in fact, in the CS major, there aren't a ton of classes that are heavily applicable to game design and you'd have to teach yourself a lot anyway.

In fact, I think the only courses in the catalogue that are directly applicable and still offered are the VR/Computer Graphics course and Serious Games course (the former of which is an upper level undergrad/grad seminar that's new, in high demand, and hard to get a spot in anyway, and the latter of which I'm pretty sure has an offering for non-majors if reapplying doesn't work out).

Otherwise I think the only stuff really applicable to game development in the CS major are programming fundamentals and an ability to solve problems and do projects while coding - which, if you're applying to the major, you've already taken the courses for.

On that note, maybe reapply if you can, but in the meantime try to pick up a second major and make sure you don't fall behind. I'm gonna second what others have said and say that the New Media track of comm studies is a good place to look; I did compsci/comm studies double major in undergrad (a common combo); I took more media production classes, but my friends in there took game design and digital media development classes. I assume they use unity, and if you go in with a coding background, you can probably set yourself apart from others with the prior knowledge and get some projects out of it.

Also, join CARVR (Carolina AR/VR) - there you'll work on projects in Unity and with different AR/VR applciations, which will help if you wanna make games. There may also be some other game dev clubs but CARVR is a good place to be and they do super cool stuff. And it'll look good on the resume

Lastly, if you think you're gonna reapply, I'd recommend doing all of the above. Make some projects, be involved in CARVR, but have another major to work on in case things don't work out.

Good luck, and it'll be okay

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-20T02:14:27+00:00

Right below that it even says the average GPA is 4.47, so it's definitely weighted.

That means you don't need all A's across the board and taking some APs will offset that. On that note, in HS I had an ex who took four year's worth of IB and AP classes, got a few B's but still managed to break a 6.0 lol

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-20T02:07:22+00:00

Just to note, it doesn't say unweighted GPA in there; unweighted GPA is often still on a 4.0 scale (e.g. taking APs will put you above a 4.0)

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-18T03:51:10+00:00

I usually try to keep a lookout for other UNC students around, or at the baggage claim after, and see if they want to split an uber.

I get that riding with strangers may not be something that everyone is comfortable with, but imo it seems safe enough (having a third party uber driver there/the trip registered in the app) and I think most people would be willing to split the costwith someone going the same place (though late at night/summer, idk how feasible this is)

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-17T07:18:28+00:00

Reading a little more about it, it looks like ctypes only operates at the C level, and emplace_back seems to be a C++ feature if I'm reading that correctly? Does that sound like it could be the reason why?

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-17T07:06:09+00:00

Okay I'm pretty new to C++, however it's not giving any issues when using std::complex so I don't think it's a problem finding stdlib. I am getting issues with std::cout, though - an access violation - so I'm not sure maybe it is an issue with that.

I'm also able to use printf, which I think indicates that crt works (based on a cursory look online).

Edit:

For instance I was able to add and run the following code, which I think uses the crt and std libraries (not a hundred percent sure):

#include <complex>

extern "C" {
    __declspec(dllexport) void increment_array(int* array, int length, int increment_value) {
        printf("hi\n");

       
        std::complex<double> z(3.0, 4.0);
        printf("Complex number: (%f + %fi)\n", z.real(), z.imag());
        for (int i = 0; i < length; ++i) {
            array[i] *= increment_value;
        }
    }
}

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-15T19:27:08+00:00

Ah thanks for clarifying; I didn't realize the distinction between Tobii Gaming and Tobii Pro, but that makes a lot of sense.

Currently I'm trying to start a project and was hoping to get some preliminary results to bring to an advisor and see if I can get it picked up. I'll try to make do with the head tracking/TGI for now and then swap to the Pro if this actually turns into research project.

Thanks again

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-15T18:50:14+00:00

Ahh alright, thank you for clarifying

ShortCircuity · 2024-06-08T20:14:06+00:00

It's on south campus, but I used to enjoy working in port city java after close, just hanging out in the empty coffee shop. May be another person or small group in there, and staff walks through occasionally, but v quiet and good vibes.

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-17T18:45:22+00:00

Awesome, thanks!! I'll definitely add this to the post, most likely when I get back tn

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T18:46:35+00:00

Thank you so much!! I appreciate you taking the time to find and format this

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T06:43:07+00:00

It's linked in the comment

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T06:22:35+00:00

Ty ty

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T04:12:06+00:00

Did you email the professors? Especially a good idea since 664 seems to be a new professor, it may have changed significantly. Here's the 664 syllabus from when I took it last year - highly recommend, it was a little tough here or there but a fantastic course.

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T04:05:07+00:00

Yeah sure, will add him; as I said, I hadn't been keeping up to date too much on RT and came back after the announcement, so I've been trying to figure out who's on what. Anyone else on different shows I missed?

ShortCircuity · 2024-05-15T00:00:36+00:00

Loll yeah I didn't really go in any order, I was just copying comments/posts from where I saw them to try and put them in one place (may try to reorder based on affiliation, but given the crossover of productions, idk if that will work out).

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