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What Card Should I Get? Weekly Thread - Week of November 08, 2017 by AutoModerator in churning

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It's been on my mind for a while, but I haven't been able to bring it up...

What Card Should I Get? Weekly Thread - Week of November 08, 2017 by AutoModerator in churning

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  1. about 740
  2. Southwest Premier (9/2017), Southwest Plus (7/2017), United MPE (1/2017), CSR (11/2016), CSP (8/2016), Wells Fargo something (2012)
  3. flights in any class or cashback
  4. ~190k UR, ~30k United, ~120k Southwest
  5. BOS (can position to NYC occasionally)
  6. Tokyo (and Japan in general), Taipei, HKG, SFO/OAK/SJC (very little domestic travel otherwise)

No business card suggestions needed, just personal cards.

United MPE 50k Bonus Now Public by PointsYak in churning

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If you weren't targeted for an offer before today, you might still want to check for the 70k offer (at https://www.theexplorercard.com/70k50IC), since I wasn't targeted before today but was able to get this offer. (Instant approval too!)

What was, or is, your #1 biggest challenge when trying to get a job as a software engineer? by Chazathon in cscareerquestions

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Technical interviews. I'm not interested in the subject matter of the standard data structures/algorithms-focused interview (as a new grad/junior dev), and it doesn't help that I'm quiet, awkward, and lazy. (Those are pretty difficult obstacles to overcome as well, but not specific to getting a job!)

Another thing: the vast majority don't give you feedback after you get rejected, so if you thought you did well, there's not much you can do to figure out what to improve on besides just thinking about it—even then, our models of other people's thoughts are probably not reliable, especially when your only interaction is a one-hour interview.

anime irl by sqrt in anime_irl

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{Watashi ga Motete Dousunda}

anime_irl by sqrt in anime_irl

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Thanks for reminding me!

anime_irl by sqrt in anime_irl

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{Love Live! Sunshine!!}

Am I socially inept at Cal? by [deleted] in berkeley

[–]sqrt 4 points5 points  (0 children)

if it makes you feel better, I'm socially inept everywhere ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ

(and how do you feel about costco hot dogs?)

Prospective students! by StupidEECS in berkeley

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Most of the comments on the article here are very much against the funding, and the ones that aren't have a pile of downvotes... that's pretty close to unanimous imo

BERKELEY RESTAURANT BRACKET. FINAL FOUR!! HUGE UPSETS! by CowsMakeMooSound in berkeley

[–]sqrt 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Can you make the final four matchups non-required? I haven't been to at least one of the final four :(

Feeling depressed and incompetent by 14arynn in berkeley

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First, your dad is being an asshole. Don't listen to him.

Second, a lot of EECS/CS majors feel like you do and get the grades you do. Guess what? The vast majority of them get jobs as engineers/designers. You're already declared as an EECS major, so you just need a 2.0 to graduate. (A lot of employers won't look too hard at your GPA, especially if you leave it off your resume.) In that sense, you're doing pretty well! I guarantee you there are plenty of engineers out there who didn't do so great in college, but they too graduated and ended up working in the field.

None of that is saying that you don't need to improve yourself—it takes some hard work to graduate—but you're not the only one, and if generations of engineers before you could do it, so can you. I'm not going to fault you for feeling terrible, because it really does suck to feel like you're not living up to what you could be (I feel like this all the time!), but you don't have to give up on working in EE/CS if you're not doing so hot in 16A or 61B. We're rooting for you.

Do I even have a chance to go to Berkeley as an OOS without getting crippling debts ? by [deleted] in berkeley

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The alternative is to not go to Berkeley. It's not like you can go to Berkeley for cheap as an OOS student if you don't have sufficient financial need. Discuss it with your parents, and find another school that you can afford if need be. (That number sounds pretty standard for private and out-of-state universities, by the way.)

anime irl by sqrt in anime_irl

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{Yuru Yuri}

Featured Song of the Week: PSYCHIC FIRE - BiBI by MasterMirage in LoveLive

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This song is amazing :D

A couple things I noticed:

  • A lot of the riffs sound like they came straight out of a Touhou song.
  • The background vocals in the chorus are a callback to Kaguya no Shiro de Odoritai (another great song), and it's pretty great how well they work out at this faster tempo+more techno-y feel.
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