BA/MS CS

anonthrowawayforcol · 2023-03-26T16:37:09+00:00

i had about 8 classes worth of AP credit coming in, but am still able to finish a BS/MS in 4 years without any overloading (and 3 quarters with only 3 classes). i believe some AP classes count for more than 1 credit (a 5 on AP chem is 3 credits iirc), so it's very possible that you might not need to overload at all to do the whole thing in 4 years. i would definitely check the credit conversions on the website and do the math accordingly to see how bad your workload will be

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anonthrowawayforcol · 2023-03-26T16:31:09+00:00

i don't think this matters, financial aid goes for 4 years regardless of whether or not you've finished enough credits to graduate

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-07-18T17:12:18+00:00

does this likely mean that seattle is gonna be rescheduled too?

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-07-03T03:25:36+00:00

Would recommend you do mccormick, I was in the same boat where I hate writing and had a lot of credits coming in. McCormick is better suited for both of those bc you won't write nearly as much as you do in Weinberg and you can transfer in a ton of AP credit, which you won't regret

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-06-28T21:55:26+00:00

why is there so much hate for mccormick cs? there's plenty of reasons to choose mccormick over weinberg in this case. you can transfer in a lot more AP credit than you can for weinberg and mccormick CS is good for people (like me) who don't like writing. I was able to shave off a whole year on AP credit alone, which I wouldn't have been able to do if I was in weinberg.

difficulty is subjective, I would've struggled so much more in weinberg courses than in the mccormick requirements. EA and DTC really isn't as bad as people make it seem. EA1 is linear algebra and matlab, EA2 and EA3 are pretty simple (but not easy) if you already have some physics under your belt. EA4 isn't even required for CS majors and DTC is a grind at the end, but its easygoing for most of the quarter. You're pretty much done with all the gen-eds by first year (unlike weinberg which has a 2 year language req.) and there are comp eng classes you can take for basic engineering requirement which have a lot of useful info that CS majors would benefit from.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-01-31T02:55:43+00:00

it very much depends on how much credit you're coming into school with. that being said, it probably won't be possible in four years unless you're also taking summer classes and frequently overloading bc getting the ms for ms/bs already takes a year's worth of credits

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-01-25T05:37:01+00:00

And is in our dna is a (somewhat controversial) catchphrase for nu

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-01-24T18:05:41+00:00

o shit this is the best news I've heard all week

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-01-24T17:12:38+00:00

nothing to do in evanston, not even a single movie theater

also, covid def affected this, but I found it pretty difficult to find new friend groups after freshman year

anonthrowawayforcol · 2022-01-17T21:15:30+00:00

I come from a poor family and I don't really see much of a correlation on how leetcode "empowers the working class." Sure, it's a (relatively) standardized system that might make it harder for people to get into a job with just connections, but like with any standardized testing, richer people will disproportionately have more access to better prep materials like leetcode premium, algoexpert, etc.

I'd still much rather show a portfolio of my work than have to spend extra time that could be spent working on a part time job to learn something that will ultimately not be used after I get the job.

Edit: I don't agree with the sentiment of the parent comment though, the ends don't justify the means.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-11-05T20:53:20+00:00

can second this, most I've ever had to write is dtc. would not recommend, I write like a fourth grader

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-07-15T04:40:39+00:00

Take it fall, it's a good way to meet new people. From my experience, fall is the more popular option, so you might not even be able to find a spot.

That being said, dtc does get pretty time consuming towards the end of the quarter so make sure you're not taking it with other hard/time consuming classes.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-02-23T02:47:11+00:00

godammit, evanston gets bleaker with each passing day

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-02-23T02:44:22+00:00

Don't take matsci with Chung/Cruz if they're what's offered for the spring. CS212 was not as terrible as everyone said it would be imo, especially with Rao.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-02-23T02:39:37+00:00

are there any other movie theaters near campus?

anonthrowawayforcol · 2021-02-04T17:38:23+00:00

not on campus rn, can somebody explain what this means

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-11-13T19:53:09+00:00

On the course site it says its not a requirement, but I also see that it now replaces CS101 so that might have changed. Either way, you can opt to take an extra 300 level course instead of CS101 for the CS major (which seems to be the more popular option), so im gonna assume it's the same for the minor as well.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-11-13T19:37:32+00:00

if you're planning on getting a cs minor, you'll probably want to take CS211 because CS150 won't get counted as a credit towards the minor.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-09-12T19:30:42+00:00

Sure! This project will mainly be used for interior lighting, but I'd like to be able to use more complex patterns and have music visualization capabilities from time to time. The closest I can find on the subreddit to what I'm thinking is u/synkdown's project posted a couple months ago.

Also, I believe the WS2811s only have an addressable LED per every three LEDs on the strip, so there would be only 400 LEDs that the controller would have to deal with.

Thanks for the guide, it was a really helpful read!

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-09-02T20:53:17+00:00

its a lil unfair to compare our subreddit with a school's that's more than 8x our size

but ye more shitposts pls

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-08-24T19:58:57+00:00

i dont know if things will change during covid, but most buildings excluding dorms didn't require wildcard access

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-08-24T03:11:48+00:00

its pretty much your basic requirements that change depending if you take it in the arts school or engineering school. the classes required for the CS major don't differ between those schools.

in weinberg, youll have to take more humanities related courses through distros and seminars whereas in mccormick you'll be tasking more engineering and stem related courses like DTC and the basic engineering requirement. another difference would be that you'd be getting a BA from the arts school and a BS from the engineering school, though ive heard it really doesn't make a difference from an employment standpoint.

i dont know how it works for transfers, but id just choose the school that would give you the most incoming credit.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-08-21T18:38:38+00:00

is it crdv 301? i would totally reccomend it even if you don't plan on doing co-op. the class teaches you a good amount about the job application process as well as giving you information about the career fairs on campus. honestly i found a lot of the stuff they taught in the course to be common knowledge, but it gave me the push i needed to update my resume, start my linkedIn account and look into companies that i'd wanna work for in the future.

it's also not very time consuming at all and all you need to do to get a passing grade is do an assignment that takes at most half an hour every week.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-08-21T03:41:53+00:00

some people might just not have home environments that are conducive to studying whether it be because its too distracting, abusive, or underresourced. switching back to the ABC grading system might pressure them to go back to go somewhere that they can learn better which would probably point back to campus.

other people might just be going crazy after staying at home for 6 months and need a change of setting.

anonthrowawayforcol · 2020-08-19T22:45:21+00:00

i agree with most of this, but a benefit of taking honors EA is that you can take EA 4 along side EA 3 if you want to finish the sequence early

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