fintech startup is first experience
#Rising freshman - Summer 2026
carmine wing
wheat fog
2030 🥀
carmine wing
software eng is also just cs ee
buoyant escarp
2030 is crazy
carmine wing
buoyant escarp
add more metrics (for ur experience especially)
wheat fog
quality > quantity for projects also, that last one gotta go 💀
buoyant escarp
Yea i was abt to say
wheat fog
uwaterloo tho, experience before even starting, and a lot more coding exp than i had as a rising soph 🥀
youll be chilling
carmine wing
😭
buoyant escarp
Also include ur gpa (ur a rising freshman so i would say 4.0 lol)
carmine wing
alr
wheat fog
ive heard waterlooworks is getting more mid by the semester, but still an insanely good program
yeah larp an early grad date too
buoyant escarp
Yea ur resume mogs my freshman resume
wheat fog
2029 or 2028
your resume is like equal to my soph summer resume when i got my first internship
rising freshman, fml man
carmine wing
ok so:
add more metrics for exp
add gpa
lard grad date
remove last proj qual>quant
wheat fog
ye
buoyant escarp
rising freshman, fml man
im cooked bro
wheat fog
not much more to be said now, just some priorities for your freshman year:
- get into a research role or start getting tight w profs asap
- attend hack the north if possible, network tf out of that
- make some friends you can make a large scale project w (something with users with good metrics)
buoyant escarp
Apply to uberSTAR, google step, microsoft freshmen yr programs
wheat fog
^^
buoyant escarp
Apply to uberSTAR, google step, microsoft freshmen yr programs
U can prob get it
carmine wing
i got htn
buoyant escarp
im chilling now, but if i was still a soph seeing this
yea lmao
carmine wing
Apply to uberSTAR, google step, microsoft freshmen yr programs
when do they open? i thougth thu were closed
wheat fog
hack the north project on there, research exp as a freshman + another internship next summer if you can
buoyant escarp
also prob not really necessary but id start neetcode 150 but dont stress on that
wheat fog
youll be 1% of rising sophs
buoyant escarp
starting neetcode early puts u on an early advantage
carmine wing
i already started leetcode
buoyant escarp
wish i did it earlier
wheat fog
also waterloo's co-op program is the best in the business
carmine wing
is research exp that important
wheat fog
i already started leetcode
bro this kid
carmine wing
i have one but its more like ee
wheat fog
internships at mid-large companies > research > internship at small company > hackathons > projects
imo
carmine wing
even if reasearch is unrelated to like software?
wheat fog
for mid size companies they can sometimes be worse than super relevant research, its kinda case by case
uh what did you research
carmine wing
i didn;t
buoyant escarp
if its not related to cs/swe/ai then prob dont put it
carmine wing
i have this reasearch opportunity that is pretty much secured
but yea its not related to anything cs
wheat fog
ah i see
carmine wing
is liek electrical shit
carmine wing
and for that I just harass profs?
wheat fog
if any prof you have as a freshman does research id get in good w them
wheat fog
not doing much research is one of my bigger regrets
youll be generational bro
break big tech by late soph or junior year
carmine wing
i thought research was bummy
wheat fog
1-2 cycles of big tech recruiting during undergrad youll be good
i mean research while doing classes is just free resume material
also a lot of companies really like it, especially if youre going for ai/ml
carmine wing
ok so:
add more metrics for exp
add gpa
lard grad date
remove last proj qual>quant
try to get research positiion during school
network htn
project with a userbase
oh and
uberStar, microsfot first yea thing, and google step
wheat fog
project w userbase is long term goal but yeah, id just focus on getting friends who are down to just make shit w you
wheat fog
thats a really comprehensive list tho
carmine wing
alright thanks kings
carmine wing
last proj hopefully replaced with htn project
fading swallow