#no exp transferred into major late would appreciate any advice

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woeful kelp
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u can prob add another project

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@warped surge

scarlet monolith
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i dont rly have any ideas for wat ot make or add so id prob just pick a stack n make smth with it

woeful kelp
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but also if u have other experiences such as jobs u should probably put that to fill up space

scarlet monolith
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okay bet i can put jobs

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even if none r related to cs n stuff?

woeful kelp
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yup

scarlet monolith
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okay will keep that in mind

warped surge
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don't put random jobs

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add more projects like he said

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stop taking this shit for a joke it's a competition

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you have 0 internships

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get back to the labratory

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put a link to your research somewhere in the description

scarlet monolith
scarlet monolith
fading current
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Pray UW rep is powerful enough, non-generic killer side projects

scarlet monolith
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Rly*

scarlet monolith
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been kinda struggling for wat to do for side projects so I just work on stuff tht helps my dad in his worm

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Work

fading current
warped surge
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i'm sorry but projects need to be visual, and if it's not visual it has to be crazy

fading current
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you gotta vibe out about something

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make some insanely cool thing you are hyped about that you thought you couldn't make before

warped surge
scarlet monolith
scarlet monolith
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would it b fine if i did something more related to my interests that utilized more skills n such?

warped surge
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yes

scarlet monolith
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ie like smth for a video game that would access the riot api or smth

scarlet monolith
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mostly video games n fashion stuff

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also longboarding but i think the most applicable of those is prob

  1. tapping into game company apis and creating smth centered around them
warped surge
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if you want to go crazy do something golf related, I guaruntee you it's over if you do that

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your HMs are all old

fading current
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I think you shoul make something unique and creative tbh i feel like gamer stuff has a bad stigma with it

scarlet monolith
warped surge
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hiring manager

scarlet monolith
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ah okay

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makes sense

fading current
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how are you at coding interviews?

warped surge
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I did a league of legends one but it was very immersive and used like 10 diff technologies and it had a deep meaning, other than that prob stay away from games

scarlet monolith
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i bombed blackrock c1 oas

fading current
scarlet monolith
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1 more semester

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of it

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but i want to get good at it in the next month

fading current
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1 more year?

scarlet monolith
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oh

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uhh

fading current
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before you graduate?

scarlet monolith
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no longer

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2026 probably

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since im behind

fading current
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oh ur chilling

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ok ur not behind at all

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you really should make a ton of projects then land an internship and convert to return offer if you can

warped surge
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I learned DSA after my DSA class, I just slept through the course

scarlet monolith
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well im 2yrs into college btu i swapped my major so i wont b done by natural grad date but im fine w spending another yr in college

fading current
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and dont wait until DSA to start

scarlet monolith
fading current
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You can finish DSA and still suck at conding interviews

scarlet monolith
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i wanna try to be good at them within the next month so i can do well on msft stuff cus i live in seattle area

fading current
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you just need to brush up on: BFS, DFS, Dijkstra, DP, Hash Table and use Python

scarlet monolith
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ya i alr mostly use python

warped surge
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dont forget linked lists

scarlet monolith
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so far ik

linked lists
stack queue

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thats it

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but i can learn more online easily

fading current
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Yeah I would recommend reading the relevant chapters in a textbook first, then just jumping in the main thing is not being afraid to start

scarlet monolith
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im following this

fading current
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tbh just start

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Thers only a few core things on that that will actually come up

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it looks much harder than it actually is

warped surge
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after that do neetcode 150

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all of it

scarlet monolith
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kk will do

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thank you o7

fading current
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Also a lot fo the advanced algos courses are about dealing with problems which aren't in P so you really should just start leetcode as soon as possible