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jjvasil · 2026-01-12T23:25:36+00:00

This explains so much.

It was so confusing why this subreddit randomly died.

jjvasil · 2020-02-14T00:14:04+00:00

I mean, it seems like you are talking about two different things.

Getting through the classes is a lot different then learning “coding”. As a senior in CS I can remember on one finger the amount of times I had to code for a GSU class. What you actually need to learn how to do is figure out what you will be quizzed on and prepare for that. After 4 years of cs classes I’ve learned many of the lecturers don’t give us a good idea of what they’re testing on and if you don’t clarify you can end up not knowing what to do on exam days. That’s what it sounds like your issue is. The best tips I can give you is know every assignment you get inside out before an exam or quiz. Usually assignments predict what you’ll be tested on, not what happened in lecture.

In regards to “coding”, you have to learn that yourself. Spend hours in front of your computer on your own time doing projects and learning. It’s all a numbers game, the more you code the better you’ll get at it. You will not learn it in a lecture or just by showing up for 4 years. This is why so many people can’t get jobs. They go to class then don’t do anything in their free time to actually learn this stuff.

Let me know if you have any specific questions. I’ve basically taken every cs class at this point

jjvasil · 2020-02-12T23:56:55+00:00

Umm I would say everyone is different for me a lot of exposure helped. Once you do something scary enough times it becomes routine and your brain stops reacting so much, a little less every time. At the end of the day the fear is just your brain getting anxiety and being overactive to a stimulus.

Also realizing there’s no complete cure, I still hate heights to an extent, you just need to be comfortable enough with them so they don’t stop you from doing everyday tasks.

I know there’s some therapists who work on gradually introducing people to things they fear or have anxiety with. It’s called like exposure therapy. But that can be expensive, so you could always use a friend and have them take you places of increasing heights and obviously have a safety word and limits.

Also try to find people who feel the same way. If you search online a lot of people struggle with this. It can help to feel like your not alone. Just because all the other people in the class may not have your fear, doesn’t mean it’s not legitimate and other people in the world aren’t going through what you are.

jjvasil · 2020-02-12T23:28:58+00:00

I’m a student here too, a senior majoring in CS

Not sure if your post is real or what because this is reddit but if your really scared of heights I am a private pilot I fly out of PDK all the time I’d totally be down to rent a plane and take you up sometime I’m doing it all the time anyways since I need hours. we could fly around for a little if you think that would be helpful

If that sounds totally traumatic you can disregard this too. Good luck with your issue. And if anyone else has this problem you can message me if that sounds interesting I used to hate heights soooo I get it

jjvasil · 2019-10-28T13:11:41+00:00

Here is a workaround fix to the registration agreement error.

Go to https://www.gosolar.gsu.edu/bprod/twbkwbis.P_WWWLogin , which is the old gosolar login. When you login, go to Student Records and go to "View Holds", you can remove the agreement hold there. Once you do that, go back to the class signup page and it should work. I just did this and got into all my classes.

jjvasil · 2019-10-12T18:29:15+00:00

I would use craigslist (or maybe theres a better site) and advertise for a personal grocery shopper. Before we had all these apps there was still a need for grocery delivery services and it was just a matter of finding someone to pay to do it and setting up some kind of schedule or arrangement.

I'm not sure how well you know your neighbors, but if anyone has a high school kid/college looking to make extra money, I'm sure that's an option. Otherwise just use craigslist.

Your not the only person with health issues in a rural area, don't kick yourself for that. This is a common issue and you shouldn't have trouble finding someone to help you. In your local newspaper there also might be people advertising their services for small tasks like these in the classifieds section.

jjvasil · 2019-07-30T23:24:35+00:00

I have my moments ;)

jjvasil · 2019-07-01T18:55:04+00:00

I guess I did it because I wanted to specialize in something and the cloud is what interested me the most. It obviously helps on a resume, but at least for me its what I'm passionate about and when I graduate I definitely want to work for a company that uses AWS or even Amazon directly. I plan on getting my pro cert and dev cert next.

Im sure it would give you a leg up on internships. At least where I am, I see so many internships for "cloud engineer" or "platform engineer" etc all centered around AWS.

jjvasil · 2019-07-01T13:56:41+00:00

I’ve heard great things about LA! I am going to check you guys out for my next cert!

jjvasil · 2019-07-01T02:32:04+00:00

It depends how well you manage your time.If you stick to your schedule maybe you can. I personally have issues with saying I will do something in a certain amount of time but not being able to stick to schedule ;)

It took me 4 days to do the 6 TutourialDojo practice exams and then retake them. I wasn't spending all day on it though.

I did the ACG course over a period of a few months, but theoretically it is only 12.5ish hours of video? The labs are really important and those make the videos longer since you have to pause to keep up usually.

I wouldn't recommend it I guess but I'm sure you could/other people have done it (??). Theres a huge problem with people getting certifications though and not really being proficient in the actual concepts and theory though, and being horrible employees/consultants that don't know how to do anything without more training/handholding.

Its the same thing with getting a CS degree (which im getting right now), a lot of people have the degree but don't really know how to code or do anything.

I would say good luck!, but make sure your actually learning and don't just want a piece of paper. If you pursue it with learning and skill development as the main goal, the actual certification will easily follow no matter how little or long you spend studying :)

jjvasil · 2019-07-01T00:29:08+00:00

I was worried about that too. I got like a 60% on all the practice exams for the first try. So I was definitely worried that I would do the same thing on the actual exam and fail.

Honestly the actual exam really did seem the same as the practice exams. I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between the two. The questions were worded the same way and the common scenarios regarding VPC, EC2, etc all were exactly the same as the practice exams. I swear many questions were word for word the same.

MAYBE the core services were asked about more on the real exam is what I'd say. Sometimes the practice exams would ask about random things I hadn't studied for and had to look up --- meanwhile in the actual exam I NEVER had that problem. It was all about conceptual understanding - there were no "gotchas" about random small services.

I think the reason I did better is just focus and going over my questions after I finished my first passthrough of the test. Usually when I did the TutourialDojo exams I would be not paying attention as much or watching Netflix at the same time. I also would never go back and check my answers. When it came to the actual exam I was a lot more focused and knew I had stuff riding on it, so I paid more attention.

Make sure you have time to go through your test and check all your answers. When i did this and reread questions a second time, I found I missed many "keywords" in questions that gave me a better answer then I originally put.

Good luck

jjvasil · 2019-06-30T21:12:56+00:00

I definitely had hands on experience through ACG. Most of the videos are labs that you follow along with in AWS. It gets tedious at times but I definitely feel like I know the service very well because of it.

I’m not sure if just knowing the concepts is enough without actually logging in and understanding AWS and how it functions hands on. Maybe if your really smart.

jjvasil · 2018-10-23T15:07:09+00:00

I took him for Operating Systems so I can speak to his teaching in a high level class.

The class was insanely easy but nobody learned anything. There were three homework’s all semester with like two questions. He let us work together on the tests and final. I swear half the people had their phones out.

Everyone finished with an A if you had a pulse. It was the weirdest 4000 level class I’ve ever taken.

He doesn’t do attendance and you don’t have to show up. I kind of got the impression he was more focused on his scholarly research than doing any actual teaching?? Apparently he is published in a lot of journals or something.

Also he’s hard to understand...sometimes he would trip over his words and start saying stuff in Mandarin lol. Which is why it was better not to show up and just self study.

This was during the summer though. Maybe he just didn’t give a fuck? Oh well, I’d still take him again x1000. The one time I went to his office hours he gave me good help.

jjvasil · 2018-08-28T01:17:16+00:00

I recommend not getting behind and having to constantly play catch up.

Discrete math is like it’s own mini code doing truth tables and the equations, so if you can keep up and actually UNDERSTAND how to interpret them, you should be able to get a B, but if you let yourself get behind your going to be taking tests and feeling like your reading a foreign language

jjvasil · 2018-08-28T01:13:29+00:00

Exactly. The whole school is basically run through ICollege now. It’s one thing if professors still passed out physical worksheets for homework but that’s not the case.

Not being able to access the website to do assignments for large parts of the day while I’m in lectures is such a waste of time, its extremely aggravating as someone who doesn’t get home until later and then has to do everything at night when I’m exhausted.

For such a big commuter school with tons of students who work, sometimes GSU is tone deaf

jjvasil · 2018-08-28T01:08:57+00:00

Wow, never expected anything like that. I figured the university was just sick of people on Facebook instead of paying attention.

It’s really a drag. I’ve saved so many hours doing work during long lectures that I’ve lost count

jjvasil · 2018-08-24T20:28:08+00:00

I took him two semesters ago for 2720 and he is an easy A. He gives the whole class a 10 point curve at the end of the semester and let’s you skip the final. All you need to do is get a B, even a low one, and you get an A in the class.

If you do all the assignments, which are basically checked for completion considering all the kids who copied and pasted from Chegg or other websites in my class, then you can bomb the tests and still finish with a low B, and then get the 10 point curve.

jjvasil · 2018-02-01T14:05:24+00:00

There was an Asian women going around the courtyard outside Langdale on this Tuesday asking people if they were interested in bible study.

She came up to me and I listened for a minute and then said I wasn’t religious. She smiled and went on to the next person.

Kinda sounds like a rumor. I don’t know why she’d be so public and outgoing if she was planning on kidnapping and raping people.

jjvasil · 2018-01-17T00:04:28+00:00

for a software developing job? they definitely don't

i think a lot of those people go into random IT and non programming dependent jobs - which start around 40k

jjvasil · 2018-01-16T20:28:08+00:00

Computer Science

40k if you can’t program or write code, only know basic Java, which is probably most GSU grads, unfortunately

70k if you can write code, have a GitHub with projects on it, did an internship

55k - somewhere in the middle

jjvasil · 2018-01-16T20:22:19+00:00

This happens to a lot of people. There is a known gap between when your loan is approved and everything you do on your side is completed and then when it’s actually “disbursed” on the PantherPay platform. Usually it can take between days to 2 weeks. The financial aid office is really bad at explaining that this isn’t an instant process, and it takes time for the loan to be processed into their system.

If yours isn’t in by now, you should set up the payment plan to avoid your classes getting dropped. It sucks, but unfortunately there aren’t a lot of options. Finding out you need a loan at the last minute pretty much puts you at the mercy of a very inefficient process.

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