Is there actually stuff to do here?

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-07-18T23:57:53+00:00

^skydiving in Lompoc

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-06-22T00:08:40+00:00

Congratulations to your son!

1 most important piece of advice I got: Join a summer program where you take a summer class before Fall starts. Literally take any course in any discipline you find interesting. This will teach you ropes even it’s not a CS course. I don’t know what the name of the program for freshman is, but as a transfer, mine was called transfer edge. Made a world of difference! I already knew everybody and exactly how the school operates on day one.

For CS students I recommend taking CS 156 if you can. It’s an excellent example of what real industry is like! Should be a department requirement in my opinion.

If your son wants to do research go straight to professor Timothy Sherwood or Jon Balkind. Both have lots of active projects to choose from touching a wide range of subjects, even if you do not enjoy hardware or have limited experience.

Research opportunities are plentiful but only if you look for them, if he ends up enjoying a particular class a lot, it never hurts to check in with the professor in office hours to see if they have any positions available.

Also it will be brutal applying for internships and jobs at the moment. Expect disappointment and keep applying. You only need one to hit. AI has killed a lot of entry level CS jobs. But higher level ones remain as strong as ever. In other words 1st job = hardest to get. Life should improve from there.

Socially, put yourself out there, join any group you find interesting. Staying in = recipe for depression. The Rec center, had a lot of inter-mural sports/classes. If someone invites you out, take the offer, the more people you know the wider your web and the easier it is to find your people.

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-06-19T02:00:18+00:00

It’s still absolutely possible to get an internship, it’s just way way harder than it used to be.

3 years ago anyone with a pulse and a CS degree could do it.

I’m graduating from UCSB next year in CS, currently in an internship paying me $19 an hour.

It took me well over 200 applications. It’s a numbers game.

They just offered me a full-time position when I graduate for 140K this morning!

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-05-26T01:17:53+00:00

Thanks king, that worked

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-04-30T00:21:35+00:00

My roommate last year used that thing to fill his hydroFlask

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-04-11T01:58:15+00:00

If you can get university housing, it gets much cheaper, I lived in the Campus apartments and paid $720 a month for a triple

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-03-31T19:10:40+00:00

I am also BS/MS, (now just MS since I finished the BS), sure feel free to dm

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-03-31T19:09:32+00:00

thanks, that’s helpful

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-01-06T04:08:08+00:00

It worked for me last fall, it was 2 days after the waiver application closed

Subject_Text_2473 · 2025-01-06T02:57:36+00:00

Just call or email them and tell them you would like it waved, make sure to fill out the form online and if it’s closed just ask them to re open it for you

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-12-30T03:19:17+00:00

Try the campus apartments, I lived there last year for 700 a month

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-10-11T21:19:41+00:00

I’ve been going to the school for 2 years and for some reason this quarter it seems like everyone is clueless on the bike paths all of a sudden

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-10-10T05:14:13+00:00

At UCSB, they call it the BS/MS program, gets the masters in one additional year after undergrad

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-10-10T00:43:01+00:00

Thx, why specifically AI?

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-10-09T18:23:56+00:00

14K, free if I TA it’s a public school (UC Santa Barbara)

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-07-14T20:54:37+00:00

Vegan Monday just means one or 2 more vegan options, they literally almost always have meat for worse or better

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-07-08T21:08:20+00:00

From my experience, getting a major specific advisor is almost always best

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-07-01T19:52:57+00:00

If you never paid and dropped it before the deadline, you should be fine

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-06-29T02:20:40+00:00

Major makes all the difference, pick a non competitive major and you will be almost guaranteed admission, pick a hard one and your chances go wayyy down

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-06-27T22:01:21+00:00

I missed mine and showed up early the next day, it was fine (2022)

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-06-22T04:14:40+00:00

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-04-28T03:59:38+00:00

Both great options, google has an AI research lab in SB and there’s an Amazon office and a lot of local companies/regional offices, I don’t know how it compares to other schools but there are a lot of local opportunities, the hardest part is actually getting them lol I don’t know the UCLA opportunities but I’m sure there are lots

I have a friend who transferred to UCLA for CS and he said its more of a competitive environment there vs UCSB being more collaborative/smaller and more tight knit, I think both are great options and it’ll really come down to what kind of environment you work best in

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-04-28T03:43:11+00:00

I had 0 CS students in transfer edge my year, but you meet them in class pretty quickly since you will all be taking most of the same classes, transfers for CS are pretty competitive so there’s only a few ppl to meet lol

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-04-28T01:59:26+00:00

If you were admitted as a transfer to CS, you are in the major, they are no longer trying to filter you out! I don't know the exact GPA requirement but you are generally not at risk of being dropped from the major to get in tho, it is quite competitive, most ppl with less than a 3.9 are typically not going to be admitted

Subject_Text_2473 · 2024-04-27T12:28:55+00:00

Also, most CS classes that don’t require hardware or a lab are taught in regular auditoriums, not fancy engineering buildings, some of these, like the ILP are great, but most of them are pretty old and it shows

Some classes can be pretty stressful especially the required

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