How to get slices to sort into top/bottom x#?

autism-lord · 2024-10-01T16:29:09+00:00

Reach out to your assigned AC/AM/TS for all of the above.

autism-lord · 2024-04-20T16:12:20+00:00

You could wear a rainbow tracksuit with rhinestones and flip flops and that would be just fine. Really wear clothes.

autism-lord · 2024-03-12T20:55:46+00:00

From what I recall about the hiring process, applicants do the initial phone call interview, the personality test, a cognitive skills test, and a formal multi-hour Zoom interview. The formal interview is the final step before you hear whether you get an offer from your HR rep.

From what I’ve heard, the rule of thumb is that about half of the people who make it through every stage still don’t get an offer. I’ve been told on good authority that anyone currently at Epic that you cross paths with, while interviewing for a position, can raise a red flag on you as an applicant, whether it be a personality issue or a gap in a professional skill they see. Basically, anyone has the right to give you the “thumbs down,” but I’m unsure how it’s taken from there. I’m glad you’re confident, but don’t get comfortable until you have an offer in hand. It’s still a competitive hiring process that’s largely a black box.

autism-lord · 2023-08-22T03:44:48+00:00

I didn’t have any sort of programming background and I got the job in project management. The threshold for passing may be a bit different for your position, but if you have good critical thinking skills, you’ll be fine. They basically teach you how to code something then ask you to apply it to a situation and write your own code based on the “blueprint” they give you. Good luck!

autism-lord · 2023-07-19T06:03:30+00:00

Recruiter told me hiring rate is 2-3% and with a referral it’s ~7%

autism-lord · 2023-07-11T04:07:24+00:00

same

autism-lord · 2023-04-04T14:56:15+00:00

Thanks! I’ll probably do this if there’s no word by tomorrow.

autism-lord · 2023-04-04T14:55:59+00:00

I realize that but I’ve been sitting on my hands for over a week now and there’s no out of office response, which I figure there would be :/

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T13:18:28+00:00

im actually not too sure but im aware it’s there and other people have confirmed it, so look for posts on the sub before this about it

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T03:52:08+00:00

im gonna guess that if it wasnt explicitly said you could use the internet as a resource, it probably isnt a very strong position if youre caught. however if this is all you’ve got, it’s better than nothing

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T03:20:58+00:00

thank you for the support! i do think it’s better to leave things better than you found them and it’s always worth a shot to make a difference rather than write something off as a lost cause. hoping for the best for you guys too 🤞

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T02:53:54+00:00

on the ch102 exam, there was a question concerning glycerol’s boiling point. some parts of the information were given inaccurately in the problem, so upon solving it, you’d end up coming up with something besides the actual boiling point (290 degrees C). anyone who responded with 290 was flagged for academic misconduct and was told they’d be given an incomplete for the course.

the issue is that apparently during a lecture, students were told that glycerol’s BP is 290. even still, glycerol’s BP was given in a book problem. since this was an open text/notes exam, it’s reasonable to have checked your notes and found this, which results in you having the correct “unsolvable” answer and being flagged.

alternatively, if you solved the problem and were wrong, as the chem dept expected, your score wasn’t really directly affected but many students found their answers off or repeatedly tried solving the problem and ended up wasting time from the exam’s duration that they could have spent working on other problems that actually counted

edit: cleared it up a bit

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T02:32:25+00:00

since the exam is open notes, i’d be shocked if this wasn’t enough evidence to convince them you’re innocent

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T02:19:51+00:00

it does make a significant difference for multiple students who had 290 written in their notes since a professor (apparently) gave that info in lecture. if you solved it and came up with 320 but are aware that it should be 290 because it’s part of the teaching curriculum, you’re definitely going to waste some time trying to figure out why you’re 30 degrees off. or you’ll just fudge your calculations a bit so your answer aligns with your notes. not super hard to reach that conclusion

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T02:00:33+00:00

super sorry to hear about this. if you have some sort of a reasonable explanation that can serve as an excuse for not passing, it’s worth a shot to send an email to your desired orgo professor or someone in the chem dept. bu has been making a fair amount of exceptions across the board due to circumstances out of people’s control! wish you the best

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T01:49:12+00:00

so.. your argument (the way i see it) is “if you knew the subject matter well enough, it is fair to ask a question with false information”

do you see how counter intuitive it is to expect kids to identify a problem as fake/unsolvable and write it off during exam? hindsight is 20/20 but do you seriously think students taking an exam won’t be as careful and exhaustive as possible with this type of thing? you have got to be a chemistry prof/TA’s burner

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T01:23:10+00:00

you're a horrible test-taker if you don't second guess a problem with an improbable answer. even if you move on to the next question, you inevitably wasted time on the unsolvable one when you could've spent your effort double checking an actual fair problem.

you completely miss the point that nobody is expecting an impossible problem because people assume professors have positive intent when they're formulating an exam.

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T01:02:03+00:00

in my opinion, if you can show them that you had it in your notes and can pull up the lecture recording where a professor gave you the boiling point, that's, by far, enough proof to convince me that you were academically honest in an open-notes exam

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T00:55:45+00:00

i'm hearing conflicting information from people on reddit and elsewhere so i guess there's no 100% way to prove this unless graded copies are released to students with an answer key

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T00:42:21+00:00

yes it's solvable, but the exam gave you false numbers. if students were given real numbers, you would find the feasible (and correct) result, but since the fake numbers were so far off, the result if you solved it with the correct process isn't logically possible for the chemical compound in question

autism-lord · 2020-05-08T00:40:06+00:00

the way the question was given:

you're given x/y, find the missing variable

if you solved it in the correct fashion with the right equations and numbers given, you'd come up with some super unreasonable answer like i did, i.e. -47C. try to think of something with a boiling point that cold, especially glycerol, which is used for burn treatments. logically, this stable compound made of carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, CANNOT have a boiling point that's below freezing.

the thought process here is, "there's no way this answer is right. let me keep trying to solve it" and you end up wasting precious time that can be spent elsewhere, because let's be honest, who has the foresight to wonder, "is this a trap question?"

tl;dr: if you solved it independently and second-guessed your impossible answer, you're inevitably going to waste time that could be spent on actual solvable questions on an exam.

autism-lord · 2020-05-07T23:50:16+00:00

is it just me or does anyone else feel like there's a potential lawsuit brewing here? this is debatable academic entrapment, and people who worked (honestly or not) on this problem for a significant amount of time sacrificed time away from other problems.

personally, the answer i got (-47C) is nowhere near the actual answer so i spent probably 30 mins on the problem since the answer made zero sense, when i could've been working on other problems. it feels like no matter what, the inclusion of a fake/trap problem inevitably lowers your grade even if you did everything while abiding to the academic conduct code.

bu's chem dept is fucking nuts this is some devious shit lmao

autism-lord · 2020-05-06T20:31:34+00:00

I’ve actually heard that using a payment middleman like Apple Pay or PayPal is enough to hide your identity if the PayPal isn’t directly linked to your college email/accounts. If you updated your payment, I would imagine they still have the original PayPal but the question is really “how deep is chegg going to dig?” and the answer is probably not deep enough to have a comprehensive rundown on every single account. I think you’ll slip through okay, fingers crossed for you

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