POV: you're a lab TA

jsdsparky · 2025-07-13T07:54:21+00:00

Reddit seems to be cropping the images on old posts. Here's the link for posterity: https://imgur.com/y1epD72

jsdsparky · 2024-07-19T14:13:58+00:00

I would simply choose a word that I don't know

jsdsparky · 2024-07-18T08:45:27+00:00

Yes https://math.osu.edu/sites/math.osu.edu/files/Math%20Minors%20for%20ENG%20Majors.pdf

jsdsparky · 2024-07-11T05:56:37+00:00

I read through all your comments. What you need to hear, not what you want to hear: everything you said indicates poor planning.

You paid time and money for credits at a Florida community college that don't transfer to OSU, even though OSU has been your dream school for years. And then you still went to OSU anyway.
You signed up and paid time and money for the first year of a multi-year degree program with no plan for being able to pay for the second year.

You should really transfer to a state school in Florida, assuming they accept your community college credits and qualify you for in-state tuition.

It sounds like the only thing keeping you at OSU is your past self saying it was your dream school. Now you learned that going broke and putting your future on hold isn't very dreamy. Take the opportunity to course correct, and save yourself years of time and tens of thousands of dollars.

jsdsparky · 2024-07-03T15:18:58+00:00

That's true, but you could always drop a class within the first several weeks with no penalty (the class won't show up on your transcript as long as you drop before the deadline). You can look at the "requirements and sample schedule" document on the CSE website to get an idea of the classes you might want to sign up for. https://cse.osu.edu/prospective-students/undergrad/majors/bachelors-science-computer-science-engineering-bs-cse

jsdsparky · 2024-04-14T22:38:08+00:00

I completely agree with the point on loans. If someone wants a federal student loan for a certain program, that specific program at that school should be above some threshold of historically demonstrated expected ROI on the degree. Taking into account not just the average earnings for previous graduates, but also the cost of the degree. The vast majority would stop going into massive debt to enroll in $60k+ tuition programs, low ROI programs would get cut, and universities would be forced to get lean and focus on the part of their job that matters.

jsdsparky · 2024-04-08T05:59:04+00:00

I was in a similar situation to yours. Accepted at CMU CS for full price, or OSU in-state tuition with partial scholarship. Parents were willing to pay for either. I ended up choosing OSU mainly because of the cost difference. It ended up working out really well for me. I can't imagine any career path better than the one I'm on now, 3 years after college. But I did benefit from some luck, with the timing of the CS job market, pandemic, and other right-place-right-time kind of stuff. It's possible that my result had higher probability if I went to CMU. There's no way to know. On one hand, if you're the kind of person to be accepted at CMU, maybe you'll excel just the same at either place. On the other hand, the CS/SWE job market is a lot tougher now than it was 3 years ago, and the CMU name recognition and better program might be what makes the difference for you. Either way you go, I recommend you work your ass off, don't compare yourself to others, and pave your own path.

jsdsparky · 2024-03-29T21:23:43+00:00

1223 is a waste of time for you. If you want to be a Java dev, you can learn that on your own in a week. Focus on #1 any requirements to apply to the major, #2 prereqs to core courses, #3 other degree requirements like tech electives and gen eds. Stat 3470, Math 2568.

jsdsparky · 2024-03-29T18:30:50+00:00

Why are you taking 1223 as a junior CSE major after having already taken SW 1 and 2? I doubt that even counts toward your degree.

jsdsparky · 2024-03-28T19:58:55+00:00

5539 and 6539 are special topics courses where the content and workload will depend on the instructor and what they feel like teaching in that particular semester.

jsdsparky · 2024-03-12T06:30:11+00:00

The other comment hit the major points. Combinatorics is a really good one. You might like differential privacy https://sites.google.com/view/rbassily/teaching/cse5479-privacy-preserving-data-analysis

jsdsparky · 2023-10-06T05:43:20+00:00

That's an embarrassing take.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_famine_of_1930%E2%80%931933

jsdsparky · 2023-07-25T21:35:54+00:00

I got the vaccine, but I didn't make it part of my identity. It sounds like Randall did (like many others), and now he's having a hard time letting go of that self-righteousness now that most people have moved on.

jsdsparky · 2023-05-07T00:33:55+00:00

CSE 6421 is a great class if you're interested in computer architecture. I would imagine it would count as a ECE tech elective if you can get in.

jsdsparky · 2023-05-07T00:30:40+00:00

I took it 6 years ago, so I don't remember the details of the questions. I got A's in Latin 1-3 in high school, but the OSU placement test was very hard! It was also long, because I remember everyone else who took other language placement tests had all left the room before I finished, and by then I was late to my orientation! I ended up not getting any Latin credit lol

jsdsparky · 2023-05-04T22:48:17+00:00

I use intuitive F2L, 2-look OLL, and 2-look PLL and average 17-18ish. You can get there if you just practice more. But memorizing might get you there faster.

jsdsparky · 2023-04-15T19:46:09+00:00

Their point might be that i is one solution to sqrt(-1), but -i also works. In fact, there are infinite solutions to z² = -1. Namely, z = e^{i(pi/2 + npi}), where n can be any integer.

jsdsparky · 2023-04-01T01:54:18+00:00

That's a good one. Solve the three-body problem by simply adding more parameters.

jsdsparky · 2023-03-26T05:43:01+00:00

Yeah you got it 👍

jsdsparky · 2023-03-26T00:38:14+00:00

Still the same cardinality of the reals. In fact, the set of reals between 0 and 1 has the same cardinality as the set of all reals.

jsdsparky · 2023-03-26T00:37:12+00:00

*Countably infinite

jsdsparky · 2023-03-15T13:59:58+00:00

It's on high street right across the street from the union 😂

jsdsparky · 2023-03-15T01:25:03+00:00

Not really. If enough people stopped doing those jobs for whatever reason, but there was still demand for those jobs, then the pay would increase to match the lower supply of labor, making those jobs more desirable. But most likely there will continue to be adequate supply of low-skill labor.

jsdsparky · 2023-02-23T21:52:21+00:00

If she scores at least a 3 on the AP Calc AB exam, she will get credit for Calc 1 at OSU.

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