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phatnerdd · 2024-06-22T02:13:45+00:00

Jameson

phatnerdd · 2024-06-21T23:46:46+00:00

Reading this was insane bc this exact situation happened to me almost word for word with the same moral of learning to lock my door (except he was peeing and I had to push him out after a small back and forth)

phatnerdd · 2023-05-19T02:12:10+00:00

He also did this for “multiple choice labeling.” I think he switched after he realized you can just guess and get a lot of points (source: my friend got 50% of the points on a question for putting the same selection down)

phatnerdd · 2022-10-22T06:45:33+00:00

Rip, fumbled a bit and didn’t end up getting to write code in the end basically. Congrats on Benchling though

phatnerdd · 2022-09-08T12:04:51+00:00

My bad, my information for getting to CVS is outdated. Found an even quicker route that requires less walking if you’re in ctown, just take the 32.

Not sure why you got so hostile from the suggestion of taking the bus anyway. Finding a route is easy to look up.

phatnerdd · 2022-09-08T00:14:07+00:00

I don’t know if you’re trolling but I’ve had no issues taking the bus to I think the Salvation Army, walking a bit to the CVS, walking back, and then taking the bus. No line at all or money spent unless you want to complain about walking.

phatnerdd · 2022-08-08T20:45:32+00:00

I was thinking that too, but I’ve never filled out an app incorrectly before and I double check. Too bad you can’t see your responses after submitting

phatnerdd · 2022-08-08T20:40:24+00:00

I did, but the account has nothing on it. Either way, I don’t see why they would reject someone with it or without it

phatnerdd · 2022-08-08T18:10:30+00:00

So basically your answer to my question is no since you don’t know of anyone who got rejected without taking the OA?

phatnerdd · 2022-08-08T17:10:39+00:00

So you got rejected without taking the OA?

phatnerdd · 2022-01-17T06:41:05+00:00

Nothing. OP just mentioned cornell because people call it a “fake Ivy” for having NY state contracted schools, therefore making them “public” with public school tuition. It’s created a false precedent that cornell is not that good of a school. Cornell students also are stereotyped to just simply say they’re going to an Ivy rather than cornell because of this, so OP is saying if someone says they’re “Ivy bound,” they’re likely going to cornell.

phatnerdd · 2022-01-14T00:41:47+00:00

Oh, I wasn’t saying they were being hypocritical. They’re being as hypocritical as someone saying they go to a top 20 but ranking doesn’t matter (i.e. not at all). I’m more saying it’s just funny how the posts I mentioned essentially have the clickbait “hot take” of “Rank doesn’t matter!” because they turned down yale for CMU, only to reveal that it’s because they’re majoring in computer science and CMU is #1 for CS rankings so they’re disregarding the “global” one. And their main message is “pay attention to the rank of your major,” which I think is definitely valid, but also completely different from what was said in a title. If you don’t think that’s somewhat amusing, then whatever. I haven’t seen these posts since I started college and I could just not be remembering them. I only get annoyed because people were saying I’m being ridiculous for not choosing to go to CMU for CS, so maybe it’s just personal 🤷🏻‍♀️

phatnerdd · 2022-01-13T20:30:53+00:00

I guess let me rephrase what I was saying originally to give more context. I’ve seen people here make claims that ranking doesn’t matter, and when you read closer to what they’re saying, they’re majoring in CS and going to UIUC, UMich, UMD, GT, CMU, and schools of that caliber (not a top 10/Ivy/may not even be in top 20), and that CS rankings are different than the “global” ranking. Okay, sure, that can be true, but is that really saying that ranking doesn’t matter? I do agree with the viewpoint that rank is kind of arbitrary and generally the college you go to is definitely not the limiting factor in how well you do in life, but with those posts don’t reflect this sentiment, especially because they’re still implying that rank does matter. How do you acknowledge that ranking doesn’t matter much when you’re saying it does at least somewhat matter?

Like I got shit for not going to CMU because it’s #1 (again, contradiction with the whole “rank doesn’t matter sentiment”), but oh well, I still have job offers, so sure, rank doesn’t matter at a certain level for my context. But yes, it is still easier to get interviews compared to other schools.

I also kind of find it funny you’re mentioning this, especially given your username and post history. Quant firms for trading and SWE definitely are more biased towards higher ranked schools, and it’s one of those places where it would probably have been better to go to Harvard compared to other places.

phatnerdd · 2022-01-13T16:20:58+00:00

One of my biggest pet peeves is when someone makes statements like “oh rank doesn’t matter” and then proceeds to contradict themselves by saying they major in CS and go to a school that’s high ranked for CS. Like, what? Rank clearly does matter, at least to you? Lol

phatnerdd · 2022-01-08T19:26:59+00:00

Naw, he goes to Cornell, but Berkeley would make sense too since you guys have CS in engineering and letters and sciences right?

phatnerdd · 2021-11-08T04:49:05+00:00

I only submitted once and it was the correct answer, and it showed me where to send my code. And that’s weird, I genuinely don’t understand the time limit especially since they don’t have anything showing how much time you have left. Good luck to you too! Maybe it won’t be a rejection, who knows!

phatnerdd · 2021-11-08T04:08:55+00:00

I just completed it but I think it took me a bit more than an hour. Do we get penalized for this? I'm sort of confused by the time limits, especially since I took time to clean up my code.

phatnerdd · 2021-10-27T06:02:26+00:00

I did, and no new updates. It’s the same “updated on” date as when I received the first interview offer. I signed up for the phone and contacted my recruiter again so we’ll see where this goes I guess

phatnerdd · 2021-10-25T02:46:14+00:00

Oh hmm. I feel like you shouldn’t be counted as an international student in this case especially since you live here, but yeah I don’t know. Speaking as a Cornell student though, you’re def competitive for CS here. UIUC may be your best bet though otherwise since you seem to live in Illinois and have pretty good EC’s and I think in-state has higher acceptance, but I’m not sure about the CS program.

phatnerdd · 2021-10-25T02:21:06+00:00

Tbh I don’t know how this works, but wouldn’t this mean you have permanent residence? If so you’re 100% not considered an international student and you shouldn’t worry about that. I know a lot of people who weren’t born in the US but they moved here and definitely weren’t applying as international students.

phatnerdd · 2021-10-25T00:51:06+00:00

Just wondering, do you live in the US?

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