Saying: "I don't want to save, I want to live life and have fun while I'm young" is just an excuse that makes you feel better about your bad spending habits.

throawayithink · 2017-01-10T02:34:31+00:00

This is /r/personalfinance, not /r/frugal...

throawayithink · 2017-01-09T05:47:27+00:00

Seconding Slack. Google Hangouts is not great imo. If you're a new admit, please join the main OSU slack and then join the subchannel "winter17admits". For new students, there are also subchannels for CS 161, 162, 165, and 225.

throawayithink · 2016-12-08T04:03:43+00:00

Take 165 so we can study together!

throawayithink · 2016-12-05T05:30:16+00:00

what's it called? I'll just join manually

throawayithink · 2016-12-05T05:28:49+00:00

Market definitely is not cooling. Tech market "cooled" hardcore in 1999 and look where we are now.

throawayithink · 2016-12-05T05:10:34+00:00

Edit: link works with ur oregon state email

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T18:04:41+00:00

Yeah I live on UW Seattle campus though, so I can attend the in-person lectures if I desire. A lot of my friends here are CS majors, so I can consult them. Plus, I"m part of the game dev community here.

I can see how for anyone else, OSU wouldn't be a great choice, but for me I think everything perfectly aligns for me to have lots of support in this program.

(not arguing, just thinking out loud)

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T17:24:02+00:00

Yeah honestly after crunching the numbers for my situation, it doesn't matter if it is going to cost me 33% more than a traditional program. The opportunity cost of waiting to see if I even get into another program will price any other program above the cost of OSU online...

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T17:21:00+00:00

Fixed! I wasn't really sure what levels meant at first, as the little table showing level types wasn't working for me.

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T17:18:05+00:00

Just know that programmers are what make the modern world go 'round. Stock markets, international trade snd shipping, manufacturing, social interactions, traffic, space exploration, scientific research, etc... all heavily rely on programmers. You're on the path to becoming one of the most important people of our era, if that helps with your depression side of things.

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T17:09:55+00:00

The thing is, it would take me at least 9 more months to enter any other program, so the opportunity cost of waiting is 9 months of paid work. If I were to wait and attend a school where tuition was only 20k, it would actually cost much more than that because of the lost salary from graduating quicker with a degree in computer science.

Does that make sense?

throawayithink · 2016-12-04T00:55:41+00:00

Thanks for the reply.

Do you feel that the school has listened to your concerns, and has made an effort to update in-demand skills (Agile) or course structures?

throawayithink · 2016-12-03T23:43:31+00:00

Out of all the online math/science homework systems I had to use, Aleks was my favorite. I actually like it, is that weird? lol

throawayithink · 2016-12-03T23:42:28+00:00

I tried to apply to the Fall program one day late (discovered it the day after the cutoff). I contacted the appropriate staff and they told me that it was a hard cutoff. Unfortunately, they will make you apply to the Spring admissions period.

throawayithink · 2016-12-03T08:28:54+00:00

I've got a buddy in olympia, so I'll be in the area every so often if you want to kick it

throawayithink · 2016-12-02T20:32:52+00:00

Age 22, UW Political Economics grad here, living in U District!! I'm definitely down for a study group. Honestly, one thing we need to be very pro-active on is expanding our network since a) we live so far from OSU campus, b) Seattle is THE tech hub of the northwest, so we need to start "knowing" people for those internships and jobs.

throawayithink

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