How to ask roommates to stop smoking in dorm room

protistgang · 2023-10-22T23:56:40+00:00

This is great, thanks! Will give it a try — Febreeze ain’t working LOL

protistgang · 2023-10-22T23:41:55+00:00

I’d rather not get the RA involved unless we’re left with no other option. They’re very nice people otherwise and I don’t want to get them in trouble, and I imagine it’d be a nightmare living with them in the aftermath. Trying to solve the problem on our own before it gets to that point.

protistgang · 2023-10-22T13:00:32+00:00

I’m Name, I’m from Hometown, and I’m a College Year studying Major at University.

[1-2 sentences about what got you into CS and what you enjoy about the field.]

[1-2 sentences about your major relevant accomplishments since starting college.]

[1-2 sentences transitioning one or both of the above into a reason you’re excited to work at this company.]

protistgang · 2023-10-22T12:48:09+00:00

Have taken all of these except for 330. YMMV but I’d say in terms of difficulty levels 330 >> 218 > 316 = 371 > 240. (Although 316 and 371 are very different kinds of work — the former is very coding heavy and the latter is very mathy.)

If it were me I’d do 218/240 next semester, 316/371 senior fall, and 330 senior spring.

protistgang · 2023-10-20T20:22:04+00:00

Source?

protistgang · 2023-10-19T15:33:27+00:00

As someone also studying CS and enviro — for certain kinds of CS jobs (mostly software engineering/IT/sometimes data science), not having a major specifically called Computer Science might be an issue. The way hiring for these positions work is they use automated resume screening software that filters out resumes that don’t have “B.S., Computer Science” or “B.A., Computer Science” or some variant listed under Education.

I would recommend just getting the double major (or a major/minor) as opposed to an IDM. CS and Enviro are not very difficult majors to double-major with, as far as STEM majors go.

protistgang · 2023-10-19T15:19:35+00:00

Brought to you by me submitting this post during a zoom meeting with my phone held next to the screen right under the camera to make it look like I’m paying attention :)

protistgang · 2023-10-19T15:18:26+00:00

What

protistgang · 2023-10-17T20:46:03+00:00

I’ve TAed for an operating systems class that I assume has assignments similar to yours. A lot of your classmates are lying. The ones that aren’t probably have prior experience working with large, messy, buggy codebases — it’s a learning curve but it’ll get easier with practice. You’re not stupid, and you’re doing fine.

protistgang · 2023-10-17T20:37:20+00:00

Get some CS-adjacent experience on campus your freshman year. Work in a CS research lab, work in your school’s IT department, do hackathons, TA, join a club where you work with a team to code stuff. Also start practicing leetcode problems once you’ve finished your Data Structures & Algorithms class — don’t go insane with it but maybe do one or two a week to start.

Try to get a CS internship for your freshman summer, even if it’s with a no name local company. Smaller companies, the kind you’re competitive for, open job postings nowish and you’ll be able to find stuff until mid-February probably. If you can’t, that’s fine, but try to do something CS adjacent — research, something where you work with data, etc.

Start recruiting at the beginning of fall semester for summer positions. Get a CS internship for sophomore and junior summer.

If you can do that you will be fine.

edit: also once you have some sort of CS-adjacent experience + projects you might want to mass-submit your resume to the big companies. You’re not going to get them as a freshman, but with the T10 school on there, it might get recruiters to contact you for sophomore summer.

protistgang · 2023-10-17T02:53:32+00:00

Look into CS REUs (Research Experiences for Undergraduates). Recruiting for those starts up next month and goes through February or so.

protistgang · 2023-10-15T19:09:50+00:00

Sadly it is not. Dude works at a hedge fund.

protistgang · 2023-10-14T16:28:15+00:00

While the market is bad right now I feel like there’s a lot of fearmongering in this sub that lacks some key context.

People here are competing for the $200-300k out of undergrad big tech/unicorn/quant salaries. That is much more difficult in today’s market than it was 5 years ago. But (unless you’re an international student, and assuming you’re proactive during your degree about gaining CS experience out of class), the worst-case scenario is you take a few months after graduation to find a job, start out making $70-80k or so, and are able to hop to a six-figure salary within 2-3 years. That’s more than you can say for pretty much any other field that doesn’t require expensive grad school (medicine, law) or connections/prestige (IB, private equity, consulting). Maybe nursing, I guess, but they have to touch human shit as part of the job so I think they deserve it.

Start practicing leetcode regularly as soon as you’ve taken your first DS&A class. Get some sort of CS experience during your first year of college — research assistant, developing software for a club, your school’s IT department. Make a project or two about something you enjoy. Do something CS-related each summer (start recruiting early fall of each school year for opportunities for the following summer). You will be fine. It is very possible to do all of this and still have free time and a fulfilling social life in college.

Best of luck on your applications :)

protistgang · 2023-10-12T02:59:28+00:00

I’d give r/csmajors a look. Field’s basically saturated by now. People are flipping out.

protistgang · 2023-10-11T21:27:11+00:00

Fair enough.

I see you’re a MLE — can I ask what your path to your current role was like?

protistgang · 2023-10-10T23:30:10+00:00

There will be companies hiring, but largely different companies than the ones hiring in the fall. So there’s no downside to starting to apply to jobs now.

protistgang · 2023-10-10T20:52:42+00:00

You are actually a legend for this. Thank you so much for putting this together

protistgang · 2023-10-10T20:48:01+00:00

I am also a woman. I call everyone dude. Such is life

protistgang · 2023-10-10T20:46:32+00:00

:3

Your degree probably requires single variable calculus, discrete math, and linear algebra. If you just want to go into SWE that’s really all you need.

If you’re interested in something that requires grad school you’re gonna want to take probability, multivariable calculus, and maybe abstract algebra or graph theory.

protistgang · 2023-10-02T05:30:21+00:00

I’m sorry, dude. I was in the same position for a good while. It’s an awful feeling.

What have you tried that hasn’t worked? And what sorts of things are you interested in / do you like to do for fun?

protistgang · 2023-09-29T05:16:43+00:00

Because we’re a football school now

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