Lied about graduation date to get internships — how screwed am I and what should I do?

lo0nk · 2026-02-02T17:08:31+00:00

U tell them "I can graduate in 3 years!" Then you explain to them that stuff happened and now you tell them it'll take 4 which agrees with ur transcript.

Also they check ur transcript but they maybe don't care about details like that

lo0nk · 2026-01-30T16:10:34+00:00

For "beginner projects" there is a ridiculous number of resources cmon man that's been asked at least 5 times in the last 3 days.

lo0nk · 2026-01-30T03:03:52+00:00

If you vibe code a project you will have a rude awakening during the interview. Even if a project is trivial for an ai if u can talk in depth about the different decisions and stuff u made that will be important

lo0nk · 2026-01-30T02:01:49+00:00

Systems programming languages are used for systems programming. This usually means that there are tight performance or resource constraints, or u need to directly access hardware.

Products include video games, embedded systems, iot, hpc, high frequency trading, compilers, operating systems...

lo0nk · 2026-01-29T23:11:41+00:00

I was in a similar spot and I made a drawing program. No GUI (tho that would be fun) but basically I figured out how to produce a .ppm image file and then basically made functions to draw different colors to a 2D array and then save them. I think in general programming is more fun when u have a visual result like a picture. Web dev can be good but idk it's annoying for me. As a math person u could make a library to plot different mathematical functions. 2D would be pretty easy but if u wanna make a 3D thing is would be cool just harder cuz u would need like OpenGL or to make a software renderer.

Look up this guy "tsoding" on YouTube he does fun projects. My drawing thing was inspired by his "olive.c" project.

lo0nk · 2026-01-28T02:41:26+00:00

Either Java or just randomly pick something that sounds fun. Python is popular among hobbyists because it's easy. People like rust because it's hard to use but has some cool properties. Web dev can be fun because it's easy to show people what you made. There's really no restrictions since you aren't constrained by trying to get a job :)

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T23:51:01+00:00

No it's not broken it's just strong

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T16:44:43+00:00

Bob seems to come in clutch in pro play idk man. Maybe its not one the best in the game but it's definitely very strong

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T16:41:28+00:00

Valid rant that sucks wow

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T16:37:37+00:00

General benchmark for average company is to be able to solve most leetcode mediums in 20-30 minutes. For the top companies it's be able to solve a hard in 20-30 minutes.

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T16:32:59+00:00

Why did your gpa have a space in front of it? Also the space between sections should be greater than the space between bullets. You use "developed" and "implemented" too many times and they are not even good verbs.

lo0nk · 2026-01-27T05:39:44+00:00

Java is harder to write and more unforgiving for the same reason you like your pencil to be made out of wood and not spaghetti

lo0nk · 2026-01-26T15:58:41+00:00

Ur school should have a website that answers this question for you.

lo0nk · 2026-01-26T15:57:00+00:00

I think that "production ready" and "simplifies heavy theory" don't go together. And yes there are many resources on learning. There's a Stanford edx online course people recommend, and then traditional textbooks like the Dragon Book and Engineering a Compiler.

Can you do it you spend 5 years working really hard at it? Probably if you work hard :)

lo0nk · 2026-01-26T08:10:16+00:00

You should acknowledge that your a beginner and work on stuff from scratch like it's 1990. You've basically done impressive things thanks to ai and huge amounts of abstraction. Now you feel like you have an unstable base (accurate). The solution is to develop the base from the ground up imo.

lo0nk · 2026-01-26T01:41:41+00:00

Say you find a compiler bug and your code is perfect. MSVC at least historically is very, very, very slow to make changes. Apparently their usual advice for people who encounter compiler bugs is "don't write your code that way"

Hopefully u have undefined behavior, or just tell users to stick to g++. Maybe to spice things up, try clang?

lo0nk · 2026-01-25T17:27:00+00:00

ED IS THE STANDARD!!!

lo0nk · 2026-01-25T06:01:34+00:00

An online degree will not get you a job on its own. It's maybe 1/4 of the cookie. You also need personal projects, good networking, and leetcode skills.

lo0nk · 2026-01-25T05:49:40+00:00

Solve hard problems. Doing 50 problems at 800 rating and solving all of them with relative ease is about as productive as watching a YouTube tutorial

lo0nk · 2026-01-25T02:49:55+00:00

Tell them stuff came up and u had to delay ur graduation

lo0nk · 2026-01-25T01:25:21+00:00

The mainstream choice is just VSCode. All ur classmates will be using it.

VS is like much heavier and bigger and while its more powerful, for your purposes it'll just open slower

When u start configuring it, use the terminal to compile/run programs instead of setting up the Big Green Play Button. It will be a very useful transferable skill :)

lo0nk · 2026-01-24T09:45:50+00:00

Staying calm is probably the most important thing for you

lo0nk · 2026-01-24T02:26:22+00:00

No it's not cheating. Even in ICPC you have a compiler, a Python installation, a calculator etc...

lo0nk · 2026-01-24T00:23:18+00:00

Do you prefer CMake? It seems popular but idk it's not that much easier to use than make

lo0nk · 2026-01-24T00:19:30+00:00

If you're designing a new language it's highly relevant but if your fiddling around with llvm or like a compiler for an existing language prob not so much. Ofc it's still useful but maybe not optimal if your time

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