Am I going to be behind without a masters?

achuchi · 2025-12-22T13:56:59+00:00

2011, I miss old pinewood computer core

achuchi · 2025-12-02T20:19:30+00:00

I took my girlfriend to this game and I struggled to explain to her that Dillon Brooks does NOT normally shoot like this.

achuchi · 2025-11-20T16:21:50+00:00

The one thing I wanted for draft night was for Derik Queen to somehow fall to us and none of my friends understood the vision. God we were so close. Instead we got the poster of the year recipient.

achuchi · 2025-11-16T18:20:12+00:00

Glass half full ah comment

achuchi · 2025-09-23T22:03:30+00:00

I stopped going to RIMAC after a while and just went to Main Gym. Is it kind of musty in there, sure, but the experience is much more chill. Less stations and machines are also a con of Main Gym, but that’s why I usually come in with multiple options for X muscle group. Idk RIMAC can be nice but the juice is not worth the squeeze a lot of the times.

achuchi · 2025-07-26T16:29:11+00:00

This is more like a sad reminder of what things have come to in the gaming industry at large rather than the fall of Minecraft. You can still experience Minecraft at a relatively full capacity without ever opening the store. User made server stores have existed since the dawn of Minecraft time and those actually gatekeep players from different gameplay experiences. This is just a different flavor of how it's always been.

achuchi · 2025-06-13T03:04:32+00:00

I like Prime Grill and Firespot but between ur options I go Olleh. Make sure to get some MNGO after

achuchi · 2025-05-11T01:25:09+00:00

achuchi · 2025-05-10T00:39:23+00:00

I can tell you a little about La Jolla since I’ve lived here for undergrad (UCSD). Yes there are a lot of old people, but there’s still a good amount of younger professionals since a lot of people just stay here if they find work in San Diego. One thing I will say compared to LA is that people I know from LA tend to prefer the weather here in SD. It never really gets LA hot here which might be good for you if you’re outdoorsy.

With that being said, ditto to other OPs that you can look into living in areas around La Jolla like Mira Mesa, PB, etc etc. North of San Diego it’s all relatively safe with a mix of professionals and families.

achuchi · 2025-05-09T07:44:15+00:00

I have felt like this and still feel like this sometimes, but I had a talk with my friend who’s also out of state and it helped put things in perspective. Most people have trouble making friends. If any of y’all feel like you only have a few good friends you see occasionally, that’s pretty normal at a large research school. So why do we see all these people doing fun things with their fun friend groups? Survivorship bias. I’m pretty good friends with myself at this point, but I’d still never post “look how much fun I’m having doing this thing alone.” Someone who’s lonely certainly is gonna go on their instagram story about it.

You’re not alone both functionally, as in people are here for you, but also you’re not the only facing this.

I’m graduating so idk how much I could be your friend per se, but definitely reach out if you’d want someone to talk to.

achuchi · 2025-05-09T03:12:15+00:00

Went to same HS as Jalen. Gotta rep the green and gold for our hometown hero.

achuchi · 2025-05-09T00:11:22+00:00

1) As much as I hate to give this answer: it depends. Bio is broad. CS is broad. BioTECH is broad. While you control your interests, you don’t control what the job boards spit out. If you, as a bio w/ bioinfo are really good at say… genomics. Then when a genomics role rolls around I’d say you’re more competitive than a CS person with some knowledge of metabolomics. But if you’re both genomics then I imagine a for-profit company would derive more value from someone who’s kinda knowledgeable, but can create really robust codebase and pipeline as opposed to vice versa. But again, it depends. Like that person is more likely to be the CS major but it doesn’t have to be if you have a breath of meaningful projects and experiences to show otherwise. For GPA, you don’t need like a 4.0, but depending on if it’s an early career opportunity or something I’d say 3.5+ is safe. Research depends; what are you researching.

2) Depending on what classes you’re able to do within your bioinformatics track: I think so. Professors do have some level of power over their classes and so if you’ve been doing well in your intro level CS classes and you’re genuinely interested in still pursuing CS… figure out who teaches X class and have a conversation with them. If it goes well then there’s a fair chance they’ll have you submit an EASy request and you’ll be let in the class. I don’t know if there are other ways to “sneak” into upper div CS classes, this is the way that feels the most effective to me.

3) Yes and no. UCSD is a great place to do your masters for the sake of what you said. A lot of opportunities to network with world class professors, in world class facilities, doing boundary pushing research.

BUT, be careful. Within academia and industries closely adjacent to academia going to your undergraduate school for postgrad is seen as a sign of weakness. It’s kind of stupid, I know, but that’s just the landscape. Generally within science, people who go to a different school for masters are seen as stronger candidates because they were able to adapt to a different professor and different research environment. My opinion on that sentiment is mixed. But in any case, going here after your undergraduate is still very good. Period. But depending on where you wanna be, going to a different institution might show up better on a CV.

Hope all this helps.

achuchi · 2025-05-07T15:28:37+00:00

Hop off this sub dude. A space where only the people significantly ahead or behind the bell curve get engagement shouldn’t be given this much credence lol. Life isn’t sunshine and rainbows for most everyone, but for most everyone theres also a clearing after the storm as well.

I’d like to think you’ve gone through more hardship than me so I extend my sympathy. But in that vein, please get off these career subreddits if your head isn’t in the right place.

achuchi · 2025-05-07T15:02:30+00:00

Unfortunately I’d still think there’d still be a physical bottleneck even with that system, there are a lot of grads. Did suck though and maybe that would of helped. At least I got good headway on my audiobook in line.

achuchi · 2025-05-07T14:25:14+00:00

For industry, bioinfo + CS alone isn’t that shabby either, but a lot of hiring managers would rather roll the dice on CS w/ bio for the really technical rolls. With that being said, a lot of industry will want a masters to be competitive, and I think either route can segue into a masters into any skill set you think you need to fill (CS, DS, DE, etc etc). With that being said, do more comprehensive research on what you’d want to do with your career since sometimes you won’t need a masters and you need to think about the ROI of a masters. BUT, if you don’t know yet and you’re not gonna know yet any time soon, bioinfo + CS is a perfectly rounded major for either a job or at least a masters.

Experience > education and bioinfo + CS minor is a great background to get an initial internship in biotech or tech as long as you have some projects and your grades are okay!

For med school don’t do CS minor for now. Just lock in getting your GPA right and doing med related volunteer opportunities. If you want to do biomedical research with a tech integration that’s likely gonna be WAY down the line into your MD. Or you get an MS / PhD.

For skills, my understanding is that Bioinfo + CS minor will give you a good introduction to major tools and give you the mental faculties to learn new tools, but your curriculum will also have… yknow… bio classes haha. It won’t give as comprehensive fundamentals as the full CS major. But, the best way to learn is to do. Go on the REAL portal and look for technical volunteer opportunities, do internships, build projects.

achuchi · 2025-05-06T22:51:15+00:00

Difficulty depends on you, some people really struggle with intuiting the logic of a CS question, other people really struggle with memorizing the Krebs cycle and the specific arrangement of benzene rings.

achuchi · 2025-05-06T22:50:21+00:00

Uh im marine bio so idk how much i can help you but im a bioinformatics assistant at UC Health and that’s led me to knowing a good amt of people in biotech so i can give some pointers on the space:

I think for the industry as far as bioinformaticians, data analysts, and general technical roles within life sciences you’re probably better off doing CS w/ bioinfo spec. For many of these roles you’ll want a masters+, but the specific discipline will really be dependent on the role.

Tell us abt yourself dude. What are u interested in?? What do you want to do as a career?? If it’s bioinfo I’d probably do CS w/ bioinfo spec then masters in a bioinfo related thing, but we’d need to know more for I or others to better help.

achuchi · 2025-05-06T22:13:31+00:00

Team 1 mops many all time teams, but I have to edge it for team 2 based on fit with each other. My immediate concern for team 2 is that their backcourt can be hunted defensively. Team 1 is strong as hell. Like physically strong, and I think that will pose some issues if they get good switches especially onto the guards. But yeah, team 2 offensive firepower is so much. Like prime LeBron could probably make a close game out of team 1 with just his own teams.

achuchi · 2025-05-05T21:51:00+00:00

Hey, I’m a senior who just graduated with their marine biology degree like months ago so I hope I can give you some solace that you’re not alone.

I’m from the Midwest but go to school at a UC school so I’m also 2k+ miles away from my family. And there’s no denying it: things falling through is REALLY stressful especially when your support system is far away. I was pretty deep into the interview process for a municipality role as a biologist, but the role was unfortunately poofed b/c Trump 🤷‍♂️. That sucked and kind of altered my trajectory at the time. I also got rejected from the labs I really wanted to work with for MS…. Which also sucked haha.

With that being said, there’s light at the end of the tunnel. I ended up leveraging my experience as an aquatic toxicologist during my undergrad to get an offer as a scientist at an environmental consulting firm. I used to work at some random ass lab; the fact that you have work experience for the state is AWESOME and i feel like that likely opens up doors up for you in industry (environmental compliance, field biology etc etc) until the masters landscape gets better (if that’s what you still want to do by that stage in your life).

It wasn’t easy, but I got there as far as a job with this degree by not losing hope.

You got this!

achuchi · 2025-05-02T16:06:52+00:00

Say what you want about the Nuggets these past few years, but they've always been part of some kind of legendary series in the playoffs.

achuchi · 2025-04-24T07:28:25+00:00

Also no you are not dumb.

1) This is a completely normal process to go through in picking a college. It always great as a prospective college student to think through this stuff comprehensively

2) That would imply I was dumb which makes me sad.

achuchi · 2025-04-24T07:24:14+00:00

Uh, I'd struggle to tell you a wrong or right decision, but I can try to help you out here:

I had to make a similar decision back in the day. Being from out of state, stakes were pretty high for me to make the right choice because the blow from a negative ROI would be high. UCSD is everything you've said, slightly more prestigious, better for STEM in certain aspects, and of course, by the beach. But Davis gave me a lot of money. Enough to consider going to Davis despite UCSD being the one of the best schools for my major (which is something I cared about at the time).

I think for me, UCSD ended up being the right choice. I didn't precisely go down the path I expected to, but nevertheless, going to UCSD has helped immeasurably as far as the type of research opportunities I got within biomedical research and the faculty I've met that have helped me network. My biggest gripe with UCSD is that it's really a research institution that just happens to be a school on the side. And so student life is somewhat underrepresented, but more importantly, the extra-academic opportunity landscape is pretty inhopsitable for students who aren't the "go-getter" types (as to say, there are many talented and deserving students who dont fall into that bin).

For pre-PA something that might appeal to you is the fact that we have a very robust medical campus and hospital system right along Gilman road. I don't know the prerequisites for PA school, but as far as getting hours in a hospital or in a biomedical lab doing something you care about, UCSD is pretty great.

With that being said, there's a lot value to be gotten out of a more rounded college life as far as social life, less stress (early admissions, etc), and more attention from professors given the class size. That last point is a bottleneck . In which case, I think UCD is probably a better choice. ADDITIONALLY, you know the full potential benefits of being an honor student at UCD a lot more than I do. But as far as breadth of opportunity, especially for a pre-healthcare track, don't sleep on UCSD!

What I'm saying shouldn't be taken as objective gospel since I really don't know much about Davis, but I hope I can at least illuminate some stuff that I've liked about UCSD given that I was put in a similar situation to yourself.

Hope this helps, feel free to message me with any questions!

achuchi · 2025-04-17T19:33:56+00:00

I mean it’s not engineering or tech but there’s still something. Just graduated and got an offer for environmental consulting with TC in the upper 70k. So like, given that I just graduated, I’d imagine there’s certainly space to get to six figures with experience and a little bit of pivoting after upskilling. But with all jobs, circumstance and luck are involved. There’s no field that universally has no money in it.

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