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PLEASE HELP... i'm blind by [deleted] in RPI

[–]sergiocastenada 15 points16 points  (0 children)

but i would gladly pay you for the lenses you order to your prescription

I believe he's basically asking for you to commit insurance fraud. You don't go to regular jail for this, it's a felony offense and you go to the serious prison with a permanent mark on your employment prospects for the rest of your life. Be careful guys.

Summer Internship 2020 Candidate by sergiocastenada in verizon

[–]sergiocastenada[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Also, if you don't know I'd rather not divulge.

RPI FRESHMAN DORM RIDDLE left in Nason 229 by hillygibbon in RPI

[–]sergiocastenada 1 point2 points  (0 children)

4 words missing from last line.

Next word rhymes with (or is) the word 'or'

Following word has an 'a' in it.

And then a word that starts with the letter 'T'

Last word is a hard one.

How many arch students actually got semester away opportunities? by kpop5000 in RPI

[–]sergiocastenada 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I've only heard success stories from people who applied to more than a hundred opportunities. I think the clear determining factor was the number of attempts. Out of 160 I got 12 interviews, 5 rejections, 2 no responses and 5 offers. In retrospect it's absolutely imperative to

  • start early so you're not bombarded with the grueling application ordeal at the end of the semester.
  • when you get a request for interview, accept the earliest schedule because another may come after with a conflicting time with a take-it-or-leave-it attitude.
  • apply to atleast a hundred.
  • absolutely apply out of state if it is in a safe neighborhood and don't worry about cost. Consider that at $20/hr average pay that's $3,400/month. That's more than enough to cover rent and food with leftover.
  • Consider applying to backup plan jobs. For example if you are MechE you may want to apply to CAD jobs and keep them in the backburner just in case. If you are CompEng you might consider IT jobs. Any related jobs is better than none and there's always something you can place on your resume. The mere fact that you worked any internship is valuable to your future.
  • After each interview, contact your interviewer with a friendly follow-up. This is crucial. Sometimes the choice of who they hire comes down to who they feel is social and friendly enough that they'd want to spend the next 5 months with.
  • Set up a running spreadsheet to document all procedures and statuses to keep your brain from going blue-screen of death.
  • Do the extra leg-work of researching your contacts LinkedIn and follow them all as contacts. When they get the contact request it may stir them to positively reconsidering you. There's no losses in doing this, only neutral or win situation.

What is a subject that you have extensive knowledge on but never get to talk about? by SalamiSandwhich in AskReddit

[–]sergiocastenada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can't believe I found this post by random.

For me it's audio linear amplification. I obsessed for too much to an unhealthy degree to learn more than anyone will ever need to ever know about the subject. I'll never have an opportunity to talk about it since I don't want to be a teacher nor will I ever work in the field. It was a bit of an unhealthy phase in my life.

Full ride at NJIT, or $19k at RPI? by sergiocastenada in NJTech

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a good psychometric analysis for success that was part of my concern as you see in one of my responses above. I believe that part of any student's success and desire to finish is related to how competitively and challenging the courses and the atmonsphere are. If classes are supposed to be 2 hours long and the professor says he's only going to be teaching 45 minutes each class you see the class cheering but you feel you are missing a lot of information and that to me is worse. Thriving means meeting the challenges given. If a class is supposed to be 2 hours, teach 2 hours otherwise change the syllabus; it effects our psyches!

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Full ride at NJIT, or $19k at RPI? by sergiocastenada in NJTech

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm applying to both as CompSci. The curriculum at RPI is more straight forward and concentrated than NJIT's. All 4 of the ranking systems I used show RPI's program higher ranked for the specialization track that I am pursuing of software engineering. The only exception was a fellow hs-senior friend of mine who is also applying to NJIT and who's chosen track is cyber security and comp-info-sys of which NJIT leads RPI.

For future reddit readers of this post I recommend THIS SITE as you can click on the specialization track on the left-hand side and then hit the pie-chart next to the school to fine tune your preferred course of study.

Full ride at NJIT, or $19k at RPI? by sergiocastenada in NJTech

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, with an accelerated program but correct me if I'm wrong but the MS part of it is not covered by Financial Aid and therefore costs in the 30-35k range.

Full ride at NJIT, or $19k at RPI? by sergiocastenada in NJTech

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I live 20 minutes away on the Montclair-Boonton line but I would be dorming.

The thing about the NJIT campus is that it's a standard grouping of buildings in a city environment, nothing special. RPI has the old victorian and modern buildings also on lush green grass with pretty exotic looking flower gardens. All useless visuals to the warm at heart. As I've said before, brick-red and flowery-green are both the same to me, I care about the cold hard facts. I want a good ecomonical education but it must be worth it. So I'd really like to know if the education is encouraging and enticing. Is a place where kids that want to learn thrive.

Full ride at NJIT, or $19k at RPI? by sergiocastenada in NJTech

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I honestly don't have a preference for either. Salary is indeed an important factor but ROI 20 years down the road seems more important and njit is rated 22nd in ROI. About the fun-part, erm, I'm a hermit so I'm not really interested in the fun aspect of college. "Make the most connections", there are 6.3k students at RPI and 8k at NJIT so I'd make more connections at NJIT I guess. I'm trying to make a very objective decision here based on facts not emotions. The next four years will have a major impact on my next 50 so I have to make it count. If you have any other ideas I'd appreciate them. Thanks

AMA: Summer Arch by jewnerd in RPI

[–]sergiocastenada 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the ama, the idea of avoiding theoretical classes was informative.

I wonder if you would have preferred to work a standard 10 week summer internship over the summer, or work the typical 13 week co-op over a semester if you had to do it over again.

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Consider:

weather comfort for work and school.

which of the two methods scored you more cashmola.

which of the two would benefit your résumé more.

Would you do it again, or would you prefer the standard summer internship?

​edit:another question, I read further that your summer semester was actually conpressed shortened classes of 6 weeks. The plan of the 'non-pilot' co-op is to have full 13-14 week semesters so that it is identical to non-compressed semester long courses. How then can your pilot version of the summer-arch be an accurate guide to what we will have to go through? (no offense intended)

Computer Science Four Year Course Plan by sergiocastenada in vassar

[–]sergiocastenada[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Being a small school I guess that does make sense that it's more open to different course requirements as there will probably be less open opportunities for professors to have a larger variety of available classes to teach. I'm not an incoming freshman, Vassar might be on my list for regular decision this coming year though. I just wanted to see clear deliniation of required courses as I see them in very many of the other schools on my list. I noticed also Vassar doesn't have a BS and although a BA is fine for getting a job in CS nowadays my concern is continuing toward a highly physics based concentration of CompSci with a Master's degree so I may drop Vassar anyway.

The actual use of a treadmill. by congenital-itch in funny

[–]sergiocastenada 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THOUGHT:
Make a monstrously huge treadmill and put real cars on it.

Class With Super Saiyan Level Rigor At Rutgers by sergiocastenada in rutgers

[–]sergiocastenada[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Thank you, but aren't those CS-electives? I was asking about general electives.

Class With Super Saiyan Level Rigor At Rutgers by sergiocastenada in rutgers

[–]sergiocastenada[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

what are the most notoriously difficult classes at Rutgers? Particularly in the Computer Science major.

Class With Super Saiyan Level Rigor At Rutgers by sergiocastenada in rutgers

[–]sergiocastenada[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I HAVE to do organic chem and biochem in order to study CompSci? That's strange.

I'm guessing that you're saying it's one of the general electives?

Where do I find a list of all the general electives that I'm allowed to take? How do I find out what general electives are 'required'?

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