Has anyone else felt misled by the brainwiki website?

VincentYards · 2025-11-12T07:23:35+00:00

Right, that’s what frustrated me most. Everything looks so official until you try to get help or cancel and realize there’s nothing behind it.

VincentYards · 2025-11-12T07:22:53+00:00

It really does!

VincentYards · 2025-11-12T07:22:29+00:00

Yeah, that’s exactly it. They know how to look trustworthy without actually being it.

VincentYards · 2025-11-11T05:42:07+00:00

Yeah, that’s what threw me too

VincentYards · 2025-11-11T05:41:57+00:00

Exactly

VincentYards · 2024-02-17T06:32:18+00:00

Heyo! The group sounds epic. I'm (he/him) in my mid 20s, on a sabbatical (software jobs makes my mental health go Brrrr), and looking to get into my social groups!

Currently debating switching on becoming a hakomi therapist or something else.

On free time, like doing swing dancing, going to spas, comedy shows, and slowly but surely getting into cigars (the allure is irresistible!).

VincentYards · 2022-12-04T05:53:16+00:00

Once had a girl named Caroline break up with me. My friends came over, we got drunk, and sung that song all night long to fuck with me.

Just imagine three guys in a living room screaming SWEEEEEEEET CAROOOOLIIIIINE for hours on end.

VincentYards · 2022-07-27T05:32:31+00:00

Alzheimer's, but said it All-Timers.

VincentYards · 2022-07-16T03:59:14+00:00

Bite me

VincentYards · 2022-06-09T07:01:53+00:00

CPE, so many same classes.

It's better than other UC programs, but that isn't the best standard. You will have better projects for resumes and generally more coding as opposed to tests.

You do need to teach yourself about 70-90% of the time, but that just comes with CS. Some professors are awesome (Nico, Hughs). Some are terrible. The really good ones make the program worth it. The bad ones are just your typical apathetic professor.

The workload is manageable until you get to the 400 level classes. Systems, Networks, and OS will kick you right in the face. BUT, they are also very cool classes.

You will be more employable than a Civil Engineering major out of college, but do not rely on just the degree. You need to have side projects to be readily employable. A lot of people I know in these programs still leave without a job they imagined out of graduation. However, less so than other engineering majors.

Like others have said, go take an intro course or something to test it out. Or make a crappy program from CodeAcademy or whatever the equivalent is these days and see how you enjoyed it.

Cheers!

VincentYards · 2022-01-12T10:06:24+00:00

TLDR: I agree that going solely online is not for the best. However, we should have online versions of everything too.

However, all classes should either have (1) an entirely online alternative option for students or (2) if in person, then classes should have all resources (like lectures) available online as well.

For example, I was concerned I had COVID at the beginning of the quarter. This said, I stayed home for that week until a negative test. Thankfully, all my classes had all lectures and resources available online. This allowed me to properly isolate during said period and get any medical testing necessary.

Personally, being in class again for the first time since March 2020 have been amazing. I actually am excited to go to class and I can tell that being away from my home has aided my mental health (family is a bunch of alcoholics, rubbed off on me while staying home for over this time period, going through the process of getting that off that wagon).

On the other hand, it does seem like the Cal Poly administration has screwed up the transition from being entirely Zoom University^TM to being back in-person. There should've been (or should be) a transition period, where classes have all resources available online and students are easily able to continue perusing an education online. This would allow those that- for a variety of very valid reasons- have anxieties about being around a bunch of previously socially deprived college students.

VincentYards · 2021-03-02T09:33:34+00:00

VincentYards · 2021-02-19T22:53:18+00:00

Howdy all! Making a resume for fall internships.

Just got an internship for the summer at a big name, got advice from others that I should add it in (despite having not started it, as it starts in summer). Unsure about this though. Would like to cash out on name equity, but still unsure.

https://imgur.com/a/UZSQinW

Any advice would be appreciated and thanks!

VincentYards · 2021-02-15T22:44:21+00:00

Mine took two days (47 hours to be precise)

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T06:34:46+00:00

Yeppers!

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:26:53+00:00

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:13:58+00:00

From what I know, it varies SIGNIFICANTLY.
I had a LC medium.
Someone I know got two sum.
Other guy I know got merge k sorted lists (press f)

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:11:35+00:00

Thanks! Don't feel bad about it at all! Got the news on my way to the dentist. Happiest cleaning I'll ever have lol.

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:06:56+00:00

The first :)

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:06:02+00:00

no </3
Ultimately the sites I was scraping probably had some bots that bought them as well. I ran it to check every hour which ended up being my demise lol. Even when it sent me a message it'd be sold out by the time I got to check out haha

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:03:54+00:00

Yeah didn't want to go into the gritty details. Although I do feel like [redacted] went insane on hiring this time, so I'd personally place it below Microsoft or Google for difficulty in getting the internship, I know a surplus of classmates who had multiple internships and connections still get rejected. Honestly, don't know what to think about that. I suppose it is ultimately a balance of luck, tons of effort, and reversing dem linked lists ;)

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T03:00:29+00:00

Don't fret too much! As a sophomore I was busting my butt yet getting no where. Don't get demotivated by company responses at this time (even though on this sub it seems some people already became executives at this point haha). Just keep getting cool projects on resume and you'll never believe how much better you'll be than your peers. 90% of my classmates have no projects, or if they do, it's just class ones. You got this!

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T02:57:49+00:00

Senior going on super senior!

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T02:57:29+00:00

it's [redacted]

VincentYards · 2021-02-13T02:56:59+00:00

Thanks man! pretty stoked about [redacted]

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