2021_summer

[night surge]

Mine doesn’t have coop

It’s just aids but whtvr

[frosty ginkgo]

is it still 120 to graduate

[night surge]

No

135

[hexed wave]

I’m already taking a light course load and I’m still graduating in 3

[frosty ginkgo]

ohh dont that balance it out then

[stray spoke]

That’s pretty good

NEU is op

[hexed wave]

It really isn’t that op tho

[frosty ginkgo]

yea it is lol

[hexed wave]

How

[frosty ginkgo]

id go neu over purdue/umd/uw madison

bc of co op built in

[hexed wave]

Why tf

[night surge]

Yeah I just didn’t go Bc of price

[hexed wave]

Na bro it’s not worth the price lmao

[night surge]

Also I didn’t know any better

About coop

[hexed wave]

You can get a coop yourself

[night surge]

And this server

[night surge]

I can’t coop

[balmy blade]

wdym

co op built in?

[night surge]

If I do I have to stay another year Bc of gatekeeper classes

[frosty ginkgo]

they give u opportunities to do fall/spring internships

[balmy blade]

ooo northeastern?

[frosty ginkgo]

yea

[night surge]

That dude is currently HRT

[frosty ginkgo]

yea

[night surge]

Lmao

[balmy blade]

Is UMD same tier as purdue?

[frosty ginkgo]

yea u could group it there

[hexed wave]

Not everyone gets those tho lmao

[frosty ginkgo]

yea ik

[night surge]

Pick 2 lmao

[charred roost]

Around the same imo

[balmy blade]

Very interesting

[frosty ginkgo]

but my resume is decent so neu would have given me the opportunities to be like that guy lol

and jump right into internships

[night surge]

I don’t think I would’ve for swe

I would’ve for hardware

[charred roost]

I think Purdue might be rated ever so slightly higher than UMD

[nova knoll]

I would def put UMD over Purdue

[charred roost]

o

[nova knoll]

For CS

[balmy blade]

UMD is > purdue ??

Sheesh

[frosty ginkgo]

yea in cs rankings

[balmy blade]

Good to know

[frosty ginkgo]

but overall id group em together(big picture)

[balmy blade]

Ya fair

uwmadison not bad eithe

[hexed wave]

Umd has a better location

[balmy blade]

Ya

[nova knoll]

Purdue engineering is elite but that’s just CS

[balmy blade]

Purdue is middle of no where lol

[charred roost]

ye uw madison is pretty good

[frosty ginkgo]

you get to hang out with @flat vine

[charred roost]

the people I know that go there are pretty smart

[balmy blade]

Ye

[charred roost]

that's facts

same with uiuc

[frosty ginkgo]

how did uiuc become a powerhouse in cs but now uic

[hexed wave]

I don’t know who that is but good I guess?

[balmy blade]

Since school was online

Doesn't even matter where its located

for the last year

🤣

[charred roost]

uiuc been there since the invention of the computer

uic much newer if i'm not mistaken

[flat vine]

• me

[frosty ginkgo]

and uic in chicago

ohh thats prolly why

[charred roost]

yeah UIC only been around since the 80s

[frosty ginkgo]

wait no @charred roost it founded 1859

[charred roost]

and went under a lot of changes

[frosty ginkgo]

uic 1859

uiuc was founded 1867

[night surge]

Those 80s lol

[charred roost]

lmfao

[night surge]

Idk man

[charred roost]

I mean UIC in its current incarnation been around since 1982

Could also just be bc the state prioritized UIUC?

[frosty ginkgo]

yea thats enough time for hfts to develop

[charred roost]

uiuc do be the flagship institution of the u of i system

[frosty ginkgo]

what crackhead decided a school in the middle of nowhere was the flagship over chicago

thats like making uc davis the flagship school over berkeley/la

[night surge]

Yeah I was gonna say I think people back uchicago

A lot

[charred roost]

lol it was the first to call itself the University of Illinois

so the state just went with it

[night surge]

Davis kinda fire

[frosty ginkgo]

lejoro love smelling the cowpoop

[charred roost]

fr

[night surge]

The coop cowpoop

[frosty ginkgo]

wait @night surge do u go to university of washington

[night surge]

No

[frosty ginkgo]

damn

my guesses way off

i still remember when i guessed a guy here went to mit

and he dmed me saying yea he did lol

[charred roost]

lol nice

[hexed wave]

@night surge goes to bing

[night surge]

No

Ew

[frosty ginkgo]

yall use bing?

i use duckduckgo

[hexed wave]

Wait but you have the ny vibes

[hexed wave]

Also bing is valid

[night surge]

Idk about that

[abstract wagon]

bro

[night surge]

Stony is better

[charred roost]

ddg kinda bad ngl

like privacy good and all

but its results werent always great

[hexed wave]

My friend at bing is cookin rn

[frosty ginkgo]

wdym results

search results?

[charred roost]

yea

[frosty ginkgo]

oh yea true

[night surge]

Wdym cookin

[frosty ginkgo]

im just in it for the privacy

[night surge]

They our year?

[charred roost]

yee

[frosty ginkgo]

@night surge ur in NY?

its so late if u are

[night surge]

Yeah I am

[charred roost]

i'll use ddg but if I'm not liking the results, I'll just do a quick !g

[night surge]

I’m ded rn

[frosty ginkgo]

ooh wait its weekend

[night surge]

But whtvr

[frosty ginkgo]

ur g

[night surge]

Nah

Finals bro

[hexed wave]

I told you you’re in ny

[night surge]

I’m ded

[frosty ginkgo]

ohh shsit rihgt

yea same

ap exam prep fucking me lol

[night surge]

Yeah lol

[hexed wave]

Yeah facts I have a report to write

[charred roost]

damn

[night surge]

How is ur friend cookin

At bing though

[charred roost]

i've just got one final left

[night surge]

What if it’s the same person

[charred roost]

got like 4 days to cram all of probability and statistics 1 into my head

this is gonna be fun

[hexed wave]

We both interviewed for step this year and he got in but I didn’t

[abstract wagon]

are you done w school after

[hexed wave]

And I go to the “better” SUNY apparently

[night surge]

Nice

I mean

[charred roost]

yep

final at 7pm on a thursday lmao

[night surge]

You make urself good

[abstract wagon]

wowowow

[charred roost]

so I get to enjoy my friday

[night surge]

Bing is worse

Imo

[charred roost]

Bing pretty decent

I forced myself to use it for a while since Microsoft had some rewards points system

[hexed wave]

The difference is not that much that it barely matters

[charred roost]

but then they shut down the rewards system so I stopped lmao

[night surge]

Wait

[charred roost]

Ye

[night surge]

It’s still up

The rewards

Wdym

[charred roost]

Wait really?

[night surge]

I have 35k+ points

[charred roost]

Damn

[night surge]

3 months game pass

[charred roost]

Epic

[hexed wave]

He’s prob gonna break into quant firms Also ngl

[charred roost]

I really spent money for game pass rip

A whole $1 for 3 months

[night surge]

Yeah if he’s nice, he’s nice

[charred roost]

rip $1

[night surge]

I don’t know him

[hexed wave]

Bing made him nice

[night surge]

Uh

[hexed wave]

Stony didn’t make me nice

[night surge]

I mean

I know more Amazon FB from stony

It’s a lot more

Plus remember that Reddit post

[hexed wave]

Lmao that’s different

[night surge]

The conversion rate

To faang

Pretty solid

[hexed wave]

At least if I went to bing I would be able to Major in cs

[night surge]

Tbf though the ppl who I know went to Hunter college HS

[hexed wave]

That’s cuz of the masters students

[night surge]

Which is imo insane

[night surge]

Oh I thought that was undergrad whtvr

[hexed wave]

Oh I thought they included grad

[night surge]

It’s whtvr

I wouldn’t think people would go there for grad

Unless they’re already there

[hexed wave]

The try hard international students do lmao

[night surge]

So that shouldn’t matter

[hexed wave]

All those try hard intl students that go for masters all get into faang they’re mad elite for no reason

[night surge]

If I went there I would’ve gotten master in 4 yrs

[hexed wave]

No you wouldn’t

[night surge]

Uh they’re not all international

Uh yeah?

How you telling me that

[charred roost]

Lmfao

[hexed wave]

Cuz I know bro

Just like how you know

Me

[night surge]

Ok I mean I got into the honors college which makes me take seminars

I forget for how long

But then my ap would carry over

Wouldn’t that cut a year

[hexed wave]

Damn you got into the honors college and I couldn’t even get into the major

Lmao

[charred roost]

Rip

Lmao

[night surge]

What about now

[hexed wave]

You should’ve just went to stony smh

[charred roost]

Lmfao

[night surge]

Yeah but the dorm is expensive

[hexed wave]

Still no 4.5 years

[charred roost]

Do you gotta take special honors classes too

[night surge]

And I didn’t know better

[charred roost]

And early a certain number of honors credits over the course of your degree?

[night surge]

Yeah those seminars

[charred roost]

Ah

[night surge]

I didn’t look into it too much

I went to accepted students day

And it was toxic

[hexed wave]

Rip

I never even visited lmao

[night surge]

People who also got in were like are we better than the people in the other room?

[hexed wave]

That’s mad funny

[night surge]

Ask about the fukin curriculum not the person next to you

[charred roost]

Lmfao

When I was in the honors college at my old uni, that was a common mindset lmao

[hexed wave]

I mean I can see their concerns tho

[charred roost]

Like you were "above" the regular folk

[night surge]

“My friend who’s in the other room didn’t get in can he get in next year?”

Like bruh

[hexed wave]

I hate people that think like that it’s mad stupid lmao

[night surge]

Pretty sure he’s talking about himself

[charred roost]

Lmao

[night surge]

He’s was a +1

Has to be

[charred roost]

Definitely

[night surge]

Like bruh eat ur free food and move on

[charred roost]

Do you get to register classes earlier as a honors college student?

[night surge]

Yeah

[charred roost]

For me that was the best part ngl lol

[charred roost]

Nice

[night surge]

Lol

The dorm though

[charred roost]

Now you can get all the high demand cs courses before everyone else

[nova knoll]

Yeah this was huge benefit for me

[night surge]

They do you dirty

[charred roost]

Rip

yeah my old uni made honors college students live in a honors dorm

[night surge]

So I went to explore on my own

And looked on the map for the dorm

[charred roost]

which were worse than the regular engineering dorms

Rip

[hexed wave]

Yeah

[charred roost]

My old uni had a metal gate around the honors college lmao

[night surge]

Zoom out and then print ur maps

[charred roost]

Like one corner of the campus was dedicated to the honors college and it was surrounded with a metal gate

so regular students couldn't get in

[night surge]

Bro is tuscanini still off the map?

[hexed wave]

But honestly I still register earlier than everyone cuz of my hs

[night surge]

Partially?

[charred roost]

Tuscanini?

[hexed wave]

LMAOO

[night surge]

The honors dorm

[hexed wave]

That’s mad funny

[night surge]

I would’ve been there

[charred roost]

oh lol

[hexed wave]

Do you have a skateboard or a bike

[night surge]

A boosted

[charred roost]

^ Having a skateboard/bike is useful for getting around campus

[charred roost]

Oooh nice

[hexed wave]

That place is actually off campus housing lmao

[night surge]

Yeah it’s off the map

Like bruh

[charred roost]

Just don't get run over by cars when on your boosted lol

[night surge]

You see the top half of the name on the map

[hexed wave]

It’s like a 20 min walk to the center of campus not that bad tho

[night surge]

Is it?

It felt like 10

Center is what? Student activities?

[hexed wave]

Idk I never walked over there I would either drive or take the bus

[night surge]

Yeah Amtrak is 20

[hexed wave]

It depends which way you walk

[night surge]

Sure that makes sense

You go there

[hexed wave]

Lmao

[night surge]

I still remember

[hexed wave]

How

[night surge]

Bc it was nice place

[hexed wave]

Lmfao

[night surge]

At the lakes

[hexed wave]

I never go to that specific area so I honestly don’t know lmao

[night surge]

It’s along the way from tuscanini so I would’ve had to step over that

[hexed wave]

Why do you remember this lmao

[night surge]

Traumatized

Plus it’s funny

[hexed wave]

Good thing you didn’t go

[night surge]

Yeah I mean I saved money

But also it might not have been a good fit

[hexed wave]

All cs majors at stony want to leave as soon as possible and don’t like it there

I’m not a cs major so I actually kinda have free time to enjoy

[night surge]

Yeah I hear that

But I think it’s also cap

On their part

Which bring me me back to this

[night surge]

Why

I wouldn’t do it if it was longer than 4

[hexed wave]

Idk I really don’t see cs majors when I go out to events and stuff. I’m wondering if they’re just stuck in the room

[night surge]

I see them playing league

[hexed wave]

Cuz you need to finish gen ed requirements

[night surge]

So Ik it’s not as hard

Uh I can handle that

[hexed wave]

That garbage game

[night surge]

I never played

[hexed wave]

Good

[night surge]

It’s so popular though

I can’t hate

[hexed wave]

True lmao

[hexed wave]

You’re taking grad classes

[night surge]

I am now

That’s normal

[hexed wave]

You’re not tho

[night surge]

As a junior yeah

[hexed wave]

That’s cap

I’m not taking grad classes

[night surge]

Ok?

[hexed wave]

So you’re not taking any either

[night surge]

18+ semesters so I can

But again we go to diff school

It’s normal here

[hexed wave]

At stony the advisors would make you slow down

And screw you over

At least when you start

[night surge]

Oh if we don’t take 6+ classes it’s bad

[charred roost]

damn

[hexed wave]

Wym bad

[nova knoll]

That’s whack

[charred roost]

i'm out here with 3 lmfao

[night surge]

You can’t chill senior year

[hexed wave]

Wym

[night surge]

I need 135 to graduate

But a lot of courses are annual

[charred roost]

Oh rip

[night surge]

So if you push back you can’t take electives

[nova knoll]

Me over here getting degree and 2 minors in 127

[night surge]

That happen to also be annual

[charred roost]

lmao

[night surge]

Wait what lol

That’s pog

[charred roost]

lot of overlap?

[night surge]

Probably right?

[nova knoll]

Some yeah CS math and stats

[charred roost]

ah ok makes sense then

[night surge]

Nice

I think for minor I need 135 + 9

[charred roost]

Yeah I'm still contemplating about whether or not I should get a stats minor

[night surge]

And masters is 135 + 15?

Or 12 not sure

[nova knoll]

Annual classes are dumb makes scheduling nightmare

[night surge]

Can’t do it anyways

[charred roost]

I think its like 4 extra classes for me

[charred roost]

yeah it sounds real dumb

really trynna milk students tuition money lmao

[night surge]

Yeah gatekeeper and annual is not fair

4 is normal

You should do it

Or try to

[hexed wave]

Imma graduate with like 150 credits at this rate...

Bard is op

[night surge]

That’s pog

AP doesn’t count for me

[charred roost]

rip

[hexed wave]

Ouch

[night surge]

Neither does CC

[hexed wave]

Wtf

[charred roost]

double ouch

[hexed wave]

How does cc not count

It’s an actual college class

[night surge]

Only for transfer

But not me

[charred roost]

damn

[nova knoll]

That makes no sense

[hexed wave]

That’s messed up

[charred roost]

your school got some real annoying restrictions bruh

[hexed wave]

My major is only 40 credits lmao

[night surge]

[charred roost]

Damn

[night surge]

Quadruple major bro

[hexed wave]

Lmao imagine

[charred roost]

my major is 70 hours

but then again, its a weird combo degree

[night surge]

Idk what mine is but I’m on track lol

[charred roost]

its called math&cs

[hexed wave]

I need to graduate and get out of there

[charred roost]

but its a single degree lol

not a dual degree

[night surge]

Just like the cs kids

Wait single?

[charred roost]

tho every single interviewer I've met thinks its a dual major lol

[night surge]

Hmmm

[charred roost]

and they think i'm smart

[night surge]

That’s good

[charred roost]

ye

[night surge]

I mean you are

But that’s even cooler

[charred roost]

its a thing our cs dept does

[hexed wave]

Lmao Na. All my hs friends are graduating in 3. I gotta graduate with the homies

[night surge]

I see

[hexed wave]

How

Wtf

[charred roost]

Wdym how lol

That's how the program is designed

[night surge]

Nice thing about our school is since you don’t get ap you all grad together

[charred roost]

You can dual major in Math and CS if you want

But this just combines the important classes of both into one degree

[hexed wave]

Lmao Math and Cs. That’s actually clickbait

[night surge]

Cs

[charred roost]

Yee

[night surge]

I read that as math and c the letter grade

[charred roost]

I mean my math grades this semester might just end up being the letter C lmao

[night surge]

I still have a final

[charred roost]

Also big sad

I miscalculated what I needed for an A in my CS class

[night surge]

I hope I don’t do the same

[charred roost]

So I ended up with an 89.99

instead of a 90

And the prof doesn't round

so I end with a B+

[night surge]

Wut

[charred roost]

[night surge]

Oh I mean you have plus minus

I don’t

[charred roost]

Rip

I think some of my classes have +/- others don't lol

[night surge]

I mean we all dont get it so it’s whatever

In school I mean

[charred roost]

Ah

consistency is nice

the only consistency we have is the inconsistency

[night surge]

The class I’m calculating is just points but happens to be out 100

[hexed wave]

Your school is interesting

[night surge]

Gimme gimme

[hexed wave]

My grades have been so subpar Idec anymore

As long as I get into a decent grad school

[night surge]

Yeah don’t worry

[hexed wave]

That’s valid

It’s 3?

[charred roost]

3am

[hexed wave]

Oh yeah it is 3 I gotta finish my report tho

[nova knoll]

3am yeah

[hexed wave]

Who told me to do stats. This thing is mad boring

[lone orbit]

3am

[frosty ginkgo]

vinodh

ask for a round down of 84.5

from 89.9

[charred roost]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[frosty ginkgo]

and say ur parents dont want to see that u were so close to an A

if he accepts ur request then ur back to square one

but reverse psychology could get u the A-

[charred roost]

[frosty ginkgo]

its a low risk high reward situation

what have u got to lose

[charred roost]

gpa

[frosty ginkgo]

oh right b+ vs b

ask for an 87 then

[charred roost]

I'm just trynna maintain a gpa above 3.67 just in case I wanna switch to stats&cs lol

[frosty ginkgo]

87 is b+ right

[charred roost]

its weird

so

[80 - 81) is a B-

[81 - 89) is a B

and [89 - 90) is a B+

[frosty ginkgo]

bruh

[lone orbit]

Bro

Why not curve it to an A

At 89

[frosty ginkgo]

ask to round down to an 89 @charred roost

[charred roost]

Its just for this class lol

[frosty ginkgo]

instead of like 84 or 87

[charred roost]

Professor didn't wanna put in the work

Also just bc they're hella understaffed

Or atleast, that's their excuse

[frosty ginkgo]

is uiuc overflowed with cs majors

i thought they cap it during admissions

[charred roost]

idts?

[hexed wave]

Another clickbait major rip

[charred roost]

Yep

We have a whole bunch of them

just search uiuc cs+x

[lone orbit]

Stats 😭

So tough

[charred roost]

we even have cs + cs

[hexed wave]

...

[charred roost]

Computer Science + Crop Sciences lmfao

[hexed wave]

Lmfao

[lone orbit]

I read cs+law somewhere

Which is just absurd

[frosty ginkgo]

law school or pre law

[charred roost]

We don't have CS+Law, I think that's a different school

[hexed wave]

Someone told me it was ez that’s why I switched my major to it

[charred roost]

Here's all the clickbait majors we got

[frosty ginkgo]

i applied cs + econ since i thought econ was most relavant to quant lol

[charred roost]

Lol

Wait did you get in?

[hexed wave]

Isn’t Econ boring

[frosty ginkgo]

imao

[charred roost]

CS+Econ fairly new so I think it shouldn't be too hard to get into

[lone orbit]

Econ is nice, ive only done a few courses tho

[charred roost]

relative to others

[charred roost]

rip

[frosty ginkgo]

i got rejecteed

[charred roost]

[frosty ginkgo]

i think cs + x has the same rigor as normal cs tbh

[charred roost]

uiuc's rejection page is brutal

doesn't even have a rejection letter

just says "Decision: Denied"

[frosty ginkgo]

ucla has a worse one

[charred roost]

UCLA gives you a rejection letter tho

[frosty ginkgo]

it just has an unstyled page of this

no idts

[lone orbit]

Whats uiuc

[hexed wave]

Might as well do stats then tho

[charred roost]

UIUC's like "gtfo bruh what you want"

[charred roost]

I got one when I applied in 2019 lmao

I be speaking from past experiences

[frosty ginkgo]

or idr if it was berk or smt

[hexed wave]

...

[charred roost]

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

wtf

lmfao

midnight dracos kinda wild

[frosty ginkgo]

you should see me at 3am

[charred roost]

ah i didn't apply to berk lmao

[lone orbit]

I am stupid, literally one google search away

[frosty ginkgo]

wait why lol

[charred roost]

knew i was gonna get rejected so i saved myself the money

[charred roost]

Lol

[hexed wave]

I have a slight feeling that might be wrong

[lone orbit]

What you guys doing in the summer chat

[frosty ginkgo]

oh wrong

i cant read

[hexed wave]

It’s summer

[frosty ginkgo]

why tho

[charred roost]

talking about stuff not related to summer

[charred roost]

^

rip messages

[lone orbit]

What’s the range for an A+ at your school ?

[hexed wave]

They don’t exist

[lone orbit]

Wut?

[charred roost]

It varies from class to class

Most usually say anything above a 97% is an A+

[hexed wave]

A+ doesn’t exist

[charred roost]

Oh yea some schools also just don't have an A+ in grading

[lone orbit]

Bro 97 is a lot :/

[hexed wave]

At a lot of schools

Who tf is getting a 97

Might as well just remove the A+

[charred roost]

the super smart ppl with 3.9+ GPAs lol

[lone orbit]

Lmao

Wait what’s your grading scheme again?

[frosty ginkgo]

me

[hexed wave]

I always wondered how it felt to be smart lmao

[charred roost]

Bay area tryhard smh

[lone orbit]

Like what is A+ in terms of gpa?

[frosty ginkgo]

naw its only for linear

[charred roost]

on a scale of 4.0, 4.3

[frosty ginkgo]

1 class sample size

[charred roost]

[charred roost]

Nice

[lone orbit]

So A+ is 4.3/4?

[charred roost]

I struggled so much with linear lol

[lone orbit]

Bruh why so confusing

[charred roost]

yep

[frosty ginkgo]

mine was non proof based

[charred roost]

same

[frosty ginkgo]

so like freshman year hs me could take it

[charred roost]

virtual lectures were just garbage lol

[frosty ginkgo]

wait bruh

what was hard abt it then

[hexed wave]

Na bro if I work that hard to get a 97. I should get like a 5.0

[charred roost]

professor couldn't explain the conceptual stuff

[frosty ginkgo]

ohh shit

i used 3b1b

[charred roost]

and our exams were half calculations, half concepts

[frosty ginkgo]

or was it 1b3b

[hexed wave]

Bruh that’s mad light lmao

[frosty ginkgo]

idr

[charred roost]

yeah I used 3b1b as much as I could

[frosty ginkgo]

i came to cs for cs not the math

[charred roost]

Ended with a B+ but still

really struggled lol

[lone orbit]

Depends 97 is doable in courses that have no final exam, getting 100s on assignment is doable

[frosty ginkgo]

idgaf abt a matrix or a derivative

[charred roost]

Professors explanations were always garbage

He'd explain things in a circular manner

Where A relies on B but B relies on A

and wouldn't explain A or B

[frosty ginkgo]

i just decided to dip the lectures and self study lol

[hexed wave]

Advanced cs topics require linear algebra and a lot of math tho

[charred roost]

We had mini lecture quizzes after every lecture

so I had to watch lectures

[charred roost]

same

and i say that as a math&cs major

[frosty ginkgo]

then ill die bc of the cs not the math

[charred roost]

🤡

[frosty ginkgo]

bet

[charred roost]

bet

i'm really not looking forward to algos next semester

[hexed wave]

Idk being a cs major feels like a waste of time ngl

[charred roost]

its all theory

i cannot do theory

this is going to be an L

[frosty ginkgo]

algos def gonna help u in interviews

[charred roost]

yee

I could take it next fall in 2022

but i moved it up

just bc interviews

[frosty ginkgo]

is there a class after algos

[charred roost]

yeah

[frosty ginkgo]

what is it

[charred roost]

there's intro to algos which is what i'm doing next sem

[hexed wave]

I’m kinda glad I didn’t get into cs. That major is a waste. I can just self study what I need to get a job

[charred roost]

and then theres actual algos

[frosty ginkgo]

i thought undergrad stopped at algos

[charred roost]

which does implementation

[frosty ginkgo]

yea whats after undergrad algos im wondering

[charred roost]

ah

[frosty ginkgo]

bro arent u in like math or stats

[charred roost]

one sec, i forget the class names

I remember the numbers

[hexed wave]

There’s 2 algorithms classes

[charred roost]

for my majors its CS 421 and CS 450 which is Programming Languages and Compilers and then Numerical Methods?

I forgot what 450 is

[stray spoke]

UIUC sounds stressful

[hexed wave]

Stats isn’t cs tho. I don’t gotta worry about networks operating systems etc

[charred roost]

Nvm its Numerical Analysis, not numerical methods

[frosty ginkgo]

idt i have to take those at madison

lemme check again tho

[charred roost]

It can be at times

But I enjoy the environment here

people like to compete with each other but its also extremely collaborative

[hexed wave]

Good

[stray spoke]

That sounds nice

How do you make time for interview prep?

Discard sleep?

[charred roost]

By procrastinating

That's how I got a summer internship lmao

I essentially just stopped going to my discrete math lectures

[frosty ginkgo]

fuck ur grades up

[stray spoke]

Worth it tho Glassdoor OP

[frosty ginkgo]

thats what i did

[charred roost]

and used that time to schedule interviews and stuff lol

[charred roost]

Yeee

GPA taking a hit but its beneficial in the long run

[stray spoke]

Aim for 3.6 but settle for 3.0

[frosty ginkgo]

ucsd

[charred roost]

You headed to UCSD?

ucsd got a beautiful campus

[frosty ginkgo]

anomolys in college afaik

[charred roost]

o

oh yea

[stray spoke]

Yeah I got accepted

[charred roost]

Nice

[frosty ginkgo]

wait ur a senior

[stray spoke]

As transfer

[frosty ginkgo]

ohh

nicee

[charred roost]

Nicee

transfer gang

[frosty ginkgo]

bro if i get out of waitlist from ucsd

imma ditch madison

[charred roost]

[hexed wave]

Don’t care about your school work

[stray spoke]

Still waiting on the Berk waitlist

[frosty ginkgo]

prolly not gonna happen with a C lol

[charred roost]

ucsd waitlist chances always slim but

Just hope you get into your major if you get off the waitlist lol

ucsd cs declaration is a literal lottery

[stray spoke]

Aye you also applied for transfer this year?

[frosty ginkgo]

yea fr

no im a incoming freshman

[charred roost]

I remember thinking I'd do cognitive science if I got off the waitlist at sd lmao

[stray spoke]

Pog

[charred roost]

good times

[charred roost]

[stray spoke]

Planning on it

[frosty ginkgo]

@stray spoke did u go to cc in the bay area?

[stray spoke]

Yeah

[charred roost]

Nice

[frosty ginkgo]

evc, deanza?

[stray spoke]

De Anza

[frosty ginkgo]

dam u near me

[stray spoke]

DVC is more op for Berk tho

[hexed wave]

Na I’m joking your grades are important

[charred roost]

Can confirm

DVC is my local cc lol

And p much everyone that went to DVC ended up at Berk EECS

[frosty ginkgo]

wait yo @stray spoke how is 22C at deanza

[stray spoke]

My goal is 3.6

[frosty ginkgo]

im thinking of taking it with my internship this summer

but idw to get overloaded

[charred roost]

must be nice having California CC credits get accepted at your uni

uiuc mad stingy with cc credits

[stray spoke]

Jesus I made the wrong move lol

[frosty ginkgo]

yea fr

my friend dropped all his 5 ap exams once he got into uiuc coe

[charred roost]

I mean at UCSD you won't struggle with getting your classes lol

And wont have 2000 people in your CS classes

and you'll have SD weather

and SD food

[frosty ginkgo]

thats like every uc aside from riverside/merced

[charred roost]

Isn't it much worse at Berk tho

[frosty ginkgo]

yea

[charred roost]

Like that's why Berk was able to transition to online just fine

bc they were basically already like that beforehand lol

[stray spoke]

It still depends on the prof, my prof wasn’t that good and I took it during the summer with another math class and a Political science class, tests were open notes so my understanding wasn’t that solid, plan on doing 61BL if I have time

[frosty ginkgo]

oh rip

[frosty ginkgo]

wb math 22 (the discrete math one)

[hexed wave]

Damn you guys are some smart ass people lmao

[stray spoke]

That true lol, I’m planning to take 3 years and try to cop internships

[charred roost]

It's just a super competitive area lol

People always pushing each other to achieve higher grades

[charred roost]

Nice nice

[stray spoke]

Yeah Berk is limiting CS people now lol

[charred roost]

So wait, you're going to be taking an extra year then right?

Transfers for SD are junior level so you'd graduate as a super senior

[stray spoke]

No more college of L&S switching into CS

[charred roost]

Rip

[charred roost]

Nice

[stray spoke]

I think it’s standard? Nothing special about it, my prof wasn’t that rigorous either

[frosty ginkgo]

aight

which one was easier for u in ur opinion

[stray spoke]

Realistically I’ll be happy with a 3.3

Seems like a bunch of people have 3.9s

[hexed wave]

Goddam

[frosty ginkgo]

cc grade inflates a lot

professors spoonfeed u a lot lol

[charred roost]

yea don't most people basically have 4.0s lol

[hexed wave]

What does cc have to do with anything tho

[charred roost]

UC transfer

[frosty ginkgo]

he went to cc

yea

[charred roost]

Transfer guarantees

[hexed wave]

Ohhhhhh

[charred roost]

UCs accept a good chunk of students from california ccs

[stray spoke]

Yeah, I don’t think I’ll have enough time to interview prep plus take 3-4 tech classes every quarter lol

[hexed wave]

That’s kinda valid

[stray spoke]

Schedule much more manageable this way

[charred roost]

Lol

[charred roost]

Smart move yea

[stray spoke]

Also get to take Japanese classes

[charred roost]

1 extra year ain't gonna make a difference in the long run

[charred roost]

nice

[hexed wave]

...

[charred roost]

lmfao fkn hell

what're you trynna do to anonmoly

[frosty ginkgo]

nothing lol

[stray spoke]

Honestly it’s good for the students in the long run, CS is overcrowded

[charred roost]

Yep

I'd assume its better for mental health too lol

[hexed wave]

Just join me and be a stats major

[charred roost]

Not going to be under stress 24/7

[frosty ginkgo]

id rather drop out and self study than major in only math/stats

[stray spoke]

For CS yeah lol

[frosty ginkgo]

im personally not gonna go through all that math shit again

[hexed wave]

Math is the fun part tho

[frosty ginkgo]

naw

[charred roost]

cs is just applied math tho

[stray spoke]

I missed something good

[hexed wave]

Like even in cs classes the best ones are the ones with all theory

[frosty ginkgo]

yea but thats different

[charred roost]

it still math tho

[charred roost]

Lol dw about it

[stray spoke]

No more 3.3 gpa declaration

[frosty ginkgo]

yea but its under cs not math

so its different

[hexed wave]

Um

[frosty ginkgo]

i get to die by DP and Graphs

[charred roost]

its under the Faculty of Math at many schools tho

[stray spoke]

Stats ew

[charred roost]

noice

[charred roost]

nice

[hexed wave]

Yeah I know stats is boring but it’s better than those bumass operating systems and computer architecture classes

[stray spoke]

I’m honestly done with maths too

Can’t seem to find the beauty of it

[hexed wave]

How

Algorithms

[frosty ginkgo]

i essentially wasted my sophomore year making sure i didnt fail AB and junior year trying not to fail BC

[stray spoke]

I mean more like math classes in general lol

[charred roost]

i feel that

[frosty ginkgo]

like i spent like 3-5 hrs a day on problems to make sure I wasnt dropped from the class

[stray spoke]

Algo classes are different

[frosty ginkgo]

like no cap the calc AB teacher wanted me to drop to precalc

[hexed wave]

Speaking facts

[frosty ginkgo]

bc i was failing so bad lol

[charred roost]

spent junior year barely making it through AB and the senior year with BC

AB was such a slap in the face

[frosty ginkgo]

and then sprinkle it with WHAP/APUSH

[charred roost]

I remember cruising through Algebra and Precalc

[hexed wave]

How it’s literally straight math

[charred roost]

and then Calc AB came along

and I got a cool 64 percent on the first test

[frosty ginkgo]

no its Algorithms

[charred roost]

and the teacher was like "yea idk if this class is for you"

[hexed wave]

Which is math....

[charred roost]

recipe for success

[stray spoke]

It’s more applicable ig?

[frosty ginkgo]

under the disguise of Algorithms

[hexed wave]

Applied math....

[stray spoke]

Inspiring moment

[hexed wave]

@charred roost agrees with me

[stray spoke]

At least it’s a CS class

[charred roost]

Yeah that email made me start taking the class even more seriously lol

[stray spoke]

Makes me feel better

[charred roost]

I remember my friends talking about their grades for the first test

[frosty ginkgo]

bro i had a parent conference

[charred roost]

and they were like "yo that shit was so easy, I got a 94"

and I was like haha yes me too guys

[frosty ginkgo]

and the teacher was asking if i was ok

[charred roost]

lmfao rip

that first test wasn't even anything complicated

it was just limits

and i failed that hard lol

[frosty ginkgo]

yea i only knew how to plug in limits

not like algebraically solve and the other stuff

[charred roost]

yea same

[frosty ginkgo]

so i bombed it

[charred roost]

the limits to infinity shit

was black magic

[stray spoke]

Smile though the pain

[hexed wave]

It was definitely simple lmao

[charred roost]

Call me the impostor 😎

[frosty ginkgo]

why does jmoney lwk sound like that other guy @charred roost

like i think u remember him

he majored in math and started gatekeeping randomly

[charred roost]

I'm drawing a blank rip

Sounds familiar though

[frosty ginkgo]

the ualberta guy

saying math isnt real math unless ur doing proofs

[charred roost]

Oh yeaa

I remember that dude

Wasn't he in like grad school or smth

[charred roost]

yea

[frosty ginkgo]

no still undergrad

[charred roost]

oh

[frosty ginkgo]

and he was saying like ualberta harder than stanford lol

[charred roost]

yee

[hexed wave]

I def don’t sound like that guy

[charred roost]

I think he means that you sound similar in terms of the math stuff

[hexed wave]

Oh lmao

[charred roost]

You're def not gatekeeping

[frosty ginkgo]

yea

[stray spoke]

Ualberta > Stanford confirmed

[hexed wave]

You guys are saying algorithms is not math. No way I’m gonna let that slide

[stray spoke]

Checkmate

[frosty ginkgo]

i mean its better math than calc and linear

in my opinion

one gets u facebook and makes u cry

[hexed wave]

So you don’t like continuous math

[frosty ginkgo]

the other one makes u cry

[stray spoke]

Yeah algo is a lot more practical for me

[hexed wave]

Algorithms is actually a hard class tho watch out

[hexed wave]

Uhhhhjhj

That is just um

How do I put it

That’s false

[stray spoke]

So calculus and differential equations are more practical for me?

[hexed wave]

In general it’s way more practical than a random sorting algorithm

[stray spoke]

Ehh not really

For interviews it could come up

Tho uncommon

[hexed wave]

If it wasn’t for an interview you wouldn’t care about algorithms

[frosty ginkgo]

Yessir

[hexed wave]

But Calc linear and differential has all sorts of applications in stats which is actually extremely practical

[frosty ginkgo]

Came into cs bc levels.fyi

And now my ass doing full stack JS

[stray spoke]

When you’re not doing stats

[stray spoke]

It has always been a trap

[mint cipher]

so yall also dont sleep?

[charred roost]

its only 1am

on a saturday night

[frosty ginkgo]

yep

[frosty ginkgo]

now i wanna make a meme lol

[stray spoke]

I was gonna, then a convo happened

[frosty ginkgo]

this is act true btw

[stray spoke]

I do see react and fire base in tutorials a lot

[frosty ginkgo]

yea its a really easy way to get an MVP up fast

good for hackathons but not long term

long term u would want a backend but then do u really want firebase now that u have sql/mongo?

[stray spoke]

Yes

[frosty ginkgo]

why tho

[stray spoke]

Jk lol

[frosty ginkgo]

haha gotchu

[stray spoke]

But I do also see mangodb for quite a few full stack app tutorials

Since MERN and all that

[frosty ginkgo]

yea mongodb is like the easiest database to pick up without locking into a backend service like firebase, aws amplify

since its just stored in json

[sage hinge]

fire base for oauth and messaging is nice

i usually just treat/build around it as a microservice

[frosty ginkgo]

yep

but its nice to learn basic auth on ur own also

learnt a lot abt hashing and salting + how a login/register process is handled

[sage hinge]

for sure

[lilac dew]

Could somebody please tell me how their verizon media (yahoo sports) phone interview went?

[abstract iron]

do we have a channel for 2022 spring ?

[eternal torrent]

!problems tinder

[small fossil]

!problems can only be used in #leetcode-bot

[nova knoll]

Ask recruiter if possible

[runic tinsel]

is anyone else on here without an internship?

[noble solar]

Meee 😭😭

[runic tinsel]

yeah me too

idk im so down about this

like what was the point in working so hard lol

[muted apex]

For the next semesters

Grinding LC for an internship but not getting one doesn’t mean it wasn’t for nothing

You’ll be more prepared for your future job searches

Always a Silver lining somewhere ig

[mint cipher]

also no internship but i feel more prepared for the next one

[abstract wagon]

that's just how this major is

you can try all you want and still end up emptyhanded

[mint cipher]

when you try your best, but you dont succeed

tho tbh i did not try my best

[worn knoll]

Coldplay - Fix You always hit in you in the feels

[hexed wave]

That’s how life is

[thin stag]

is $21 / hr for an internship bad ?

[mint cipher]

no

but its prob below average

[weary delta]

depends on what year you are but in general ^^^^

[thin stag]

yikes, the company is giving me 48 hours to accept the offer but i’m waiting to see if another company is going to give me an offer

entering senior year, first internship 😦

[mint cipher]

ask for an extension

[charred roost]

^

[weary delta]

yeah don't go for exploding offers (or be ready to renege)

[charred roost]

Or become a heartless reneging bastard like me 🙂

[stray spoke]

Accept if you have to and don’t be afraid to renege

[charred roost]

^

[hexed wave]

I’m scared to renege

[thin stag]

is it even worth it to negotiate?

[stray spoke]

Praying for an offer after finals

[stray spoke]

Generally not gonna go anywhere

[weary delta]

depends on how soon you're expecting the other offer

[stray spoke]

Maybe a couple of dollars of increase

[weary delta]

like not monetarily but for time i mean

[thin stag]

i was honestly expecting atleast $25 :/

[weary delta]

monetarily its rare to get a real increase in pay

how soon are you expecting the other offer (if you get it i mean)

[thin stag]

i had final interview with the other company on thursday, they told me they would get back to me ASAP, so i was hoping that by today they would’ve told me if they rejected me or not

thinking about just emailing the recruiter for an update but idk if it’s too early

[weary delta]

email them today letting them know you have a deadline coming up but that you'd love to work with them

nah if you have a deadline its not too early

the deadline takes precedence

[thin stag]

oh ok, going to do that now. thanks guys 😄

[charred roost]

Reneging hurts but you sometimes gotta do what you gotta do

[thin stag]

when i’m mentioning the deadline i have coming up, should i specifically say i have a deadline on thursday of this week for another company? or should i just say i have an upcoming deadline ?

[charred roost]

I think you can say you have a competing offer deadline coming up

No need to mention what company

[mellow sundial]

I have an interview with Biotech-Fusion anyone has any experience with the company?

[charred roost]

Also wait, Tesla still hiring summer interns?

Just saw this lol

[split fractal]

that would be cool to work on

[charred roost]

It would be yeah

[charred roost]

And I've been ghosted for all of them

[obtuse pivot]

keep ur head up king

[charred roost]

Thanks G

I actually managed to get something for the summer

But I wanted that Tesla clout

[glossy vapor]

i got hit up

but for QA out of all positions smh

[split fractal]

OOF

[craggy shuttle]

Glassdoor paying more than Tesla though 😛

[charred roost]

That is facts

[formal finch]

I mean Tesla pays 8 dollar less than Glassdoor