Did you regret getting a CS degree?

Did you regret getting a CS degree?

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I love my CE degree.

going for that now, any advice before I begin?

Pick another degree in a field that's not overrun with H1B visa poos.

Yes.

>tfw graduated summa cum laude from Berkeley and still can't find a job
I wish I didn't fall for the CS meme.

I like my CE degree, feels good not living in the US where people work +40 hours per week

No. I do regret the polisci degree I wasted my youth on though.

I have a good job so not really.

i regret not getting one

you mean you don't have friends? Haha

40-hour work weeks, varied work, and over 35 USD / hr less than two years after graduating with a computer engineering degree. Even went to a cheap college and got a mediocre GPA.

that's weird. my friends graduated with low GPAs (like bordering around 3.0) from Cal and they have good jobs at google now. pretty sure they're all making healthy six figure incomes. none of them was especially social either (they played magic all the way into college; you don't recover from that).

i increasingly think that it's less about the circumstances and more about the person. it's just easier to put responsibility on the things around you, because the alternative is to admit that you were lazy, timid, and forgettable.

yeah no shit. it's clear he had nothing than a good GPA

Yes, if you take Computer Science for a degree you are basically admitting you have zero personality and are a boring chode nobody really wants to hang with except other CS students. When you're a fresher and people ask the inevitable, "What degree are you studying??", saying "Computer Science" is the ultimate way to make people turn away from you because it is THAT dull. So glad I switched to Mathematics, now I earn 300K starting and get any chick I want.

>implying I'm a software only babby

yeah but autistic people don't like the world working this way. it bothers them that they can technically check off all the boxes, pass all the unit tests, and still come out of university without some noticeable change to their brain or a guaranteed job.

maybe i'm conflating entitled idiots who think that it's the university's job to teach them every language they'll ever use (when in reality it's more about teaching you how to learn and master different types of languages - a much more meta concept and one that requires the student to make some real effort to connect the dots), but there are definitely folks who seem to be on the spectrum that i have to carefully walk through this logic of how you need to take some initiative that isn't on a class syllabus (e.g. going to career fairs, doing internships, and initiating relationships with professionals).

yes

yes, everyday. Not even joking/trolling/memeing

nice bait until the Mathematics part

>tfw I'm going to spend my university years like this too
sad

you're going to see people slide into what's comfortable, sneering at the people that stick their necks out and apply for shit, and you might remember this thread; try and be one of those people that sticks their neck out and tries to do something more than the bare minimum.

Why is that?

So is a CIS degree in Network Administration worthwhile at all?

I'm getting really tired of classes that are about shit I knew in 9th grade and having to sit in every class for 4 hours because the average "CS" degree student doesn't know how to code a sieve of eratosthenes and I can't challenge any of the classes.

yeah, I'm hoping to do that next year. my first year was horrible because I was already so tired of school. I took summer school throughout high school and didn't get a break for more than 2 weeks.

I majored in dumb shit (chemistry) that I realized I don't even like either. Computer Science was my minor. Didn't do much and ended up with a 1.9 GPA

I didn't make many friends either. Couldn't find clubs that spark my interest, classes are in sizes of hundreds of people... ended up getting two female friends that noticed me from having two lectures together (I'm kind of attractive)

This just made me realize I'm not doing anything this summer. Oh well

>attending lectures
Why?

>CIS
die cis scum

then just skip the classes you aspie. not like they take attendance

Why would I?
It's required by lot's of employees. I really like the math I learn on it. The low-level stuff we learn are pretty interesting. People are ok and the lecturers usually allows you to use whatever technology you want, so it's not a problem to use PostgreSQL on databases and Rust on algorithms.(my friends on other degrees don't have that much freedom)

You probably fall for "do a degree without self learning" meme. Degree doesn't guarantee you a job, your skills do.
I got pretty nice part-time job at the first year just because I already knew plenty of languages and had wide experience.

>mfw my software engineering program has mandatory paid internships

you didn't seem to understand the post but okay.

where did you get experience from?

not really, did you even read the post?

Seriously, am I just wasting my time?
> not like they take attendance
Lol no, they do. And I get dinged a full assignment for not showing up.
>die cis scum
I'm a transgirl.

>You probably fall for "do a degree without self learning" meme. Degree doesn't guarantee you a job, your skills do.
not to mention it kinda guarantees he's an aspie when someone from a respectable university with a high GPA can't get a job through friends and networking

>Lol no, they do. And I get dinged a full assignment for not showing up.
Wtf kind of system is this? You get dinged for not attending the lectures, not the labs? seems like a shitty university to me, how big are the classes?

I both read it and wrote it. I was saying that you need to do more than the bare minimum. Doing a mandatory internship constitutes part of the minimum. It just happens to be that the minimum is different for you than it is for other places.

i'll be honest, i didn't really read your post and just skimmed it because you said 'doing internships"

>be in computer science
>75% of the students are Chinese exchange students (yes they're everywhere but especially in CS)
>the other half are unkempt, antisocial looking white or asian loser boys
sigh

at least pajeets are kind of cool with a sense of humor. really regret not going into engineering. where I'm from, it's the faculty that everyone worthwhile seems to go into

>Lol no, they do. And I get dinged a full assignment for not showing up.
Where the fuck do you study? High school?

yeah if you're missing pretty important components by skimming then you should either figure out a better way to skim or stop skimming.

my university has a policy like this for the labs,but having a policy for lectures is just dumb

I don't have one but it would have been nice for my first job. Doesn't matter now.

99% of most jobs software regardless of whether your at a tier D company in Nebraska or at Google are pretty simple.

>implying posts on Sup Forums have enough value to merit not skimming

my oldest sister has a degree in CS. Too bad she has diagnosed autism and is a social justice warrior. That being said,

She is filthy rich.
She made $35,000 on a summer internship immediately after college
Moved to one of the biggest cities
And is probably living NEET life while being the complete opposite of NEET

>You get dinged for not attending the lectures, not the labs?
Yes. The "labs" are aren't a seperate class apart from the lecture, they're usually just another stupid assignment like "code a program that does x and dropbox it to me and I'll be in the online chat for 2 hours on tuesday if you need help"
>how big are the classes?
About 30-35 people per class, every classroom has a computer for every person
Around my 2nd year of college.

Oh. so it's a small college with lectures high school style

confirmed for shit tier

>college
>not university
Are you a nigger as well?

>where did you get experience from?
Garry's Mod and then programming my own tools and games.
On Garry's Mod I learned how to make shaders, raytracers, 2D and 3D path finding, virtual memory, a lot about optimization(because of how slow VMs are in GM), actual 3D renderers, made my own virtual machine with my own instruction set and learned simple structured language, simple low-level language and LUA and much more. 3000 hours of playtime were surely worth it.
Then I started doing my own programs, I made IRC bot, mumble bot, started modding mumble itself and learned about protobuf and how client-server applications are being made, made few games and learned how to practically use shaders and about graphic memory, learned plenty of languages, created some various websites that taught me PHP, CSS, JS, design and databases, and now I'm working on fractal renderer in Rust and I learn assembly for low-level optimization of operation on large fixed point numbers.

That probably true as well. I'm not very social myself, but the moment I started uni I joined informatics(?) association and people I meet here literally gave me job and accommodation.

No

>On Garry's Mod I learned how to make shaders, raytracers, 2D and 3D path finding, virtual memory, a lot about optimization(because of how slow VMs are in GM), actual 3D renderers, made my own virtual machine with my own instruction set and learned simple structured language, simple low-level language and LUA and much more. 3000 hours of playtime were surely worth it.
>Then I started doing my own programs, I made IRC bot, mumble bot, started modding mumble itself and learned about protobuf and how client-server applications are being made, made few games and learned how to practically use shaders and about graphic memory, learned plenty of languages, created some various websites that taught me PHP, CSS, JS, design and databases, and now I'm working on fractal renderer in Rust and I learn assembly for low-level optimization of operation on large fixed point numbers.
How do you even have time for all that?

yeah
no, I'm white and poor and I don't have enough iroquois in my blood to collect government bucks and land

lol, where in Canada are you in?

not shitposting 24/7 on Sup Forums will help

cascadia, usa

What else were I supposed to do during middle and high school?
I had fuckton of free time back then, it wasn't a problem to spend 4h after school and 8h on days off playing gmod and programming.
Now when I'm studying and working at the same time I don't have that much energy, but I still program on weekends.

damn, so you knew you were going into computer science. at least you had a set path

all you said is not that complicated

Most of them aren't complicated, but they give you great insight on how all the things works, from metal-level CPU and GPU(I tried to create CPU in Minecraft but my team disbanded) to databases and client-server model. Also the more languages you know, you start to see patterns and better understand how they work under-the-hood so learning new languages starts to become trivial.
However, I wouldn't said that creating virtual machine with custom instruction set, low level fixed math optimizations and pic related 3D renderer weren't that complicated.(archive.rebeccablacktech.com/g/thread/S54534457#p54541220)

SE > CS

>summa cum laude
>cum lord

this post hit me, almost in the same situation
how the FUCK do you make friends when you are suddenly put in a 100-200 student amphitheater?
most people know each other by living at student appartments or by being friends before coming to university.

You talk to people, it's as easy as that. No way in hell there can be people in college without friends

first day i introduced myself to a couple people and some introduced themselves to me, but we didnt arrange to go out for a coffee or anything like that.
best ive got is a couple people that i dont go out with but i sometimes talk to at lectures because we needed company for some team project

only people i hang out with are some neighbours

>you talk to people, it's as easy as that
i just reread your post and realised how retarded it is. lol funny fucking normie.

IM 24 years old,most of the kids there don't want to fucking talk to any one older than they are unless you are buying them drugs and alcohol.

Summa cum laude means fucking nerd, not capable worker. You probably can't hold a conversation for more than 30 seconds IRL

Fucking normies reeeeeeee

Considering I'm making 6 figures and getting shittons of equities right out of college? No.

DIE CIS SCUM

I got an IT degree, from a shitty college. Like we had two classes that were basically just A+ training. College is only worthwhile if you're going for a valid degree at a GOOD school. Otherwise I wouldn't waste your time. Should have listened to my mom and just went to C

Currently almost three years out of college I work in a service desk and all my coworkers are either old, women (who are old or fat), veterans and minorities. Basically telltale signs you work in a low status shit job.

*should have listed to my mom and went to CC and got a radiologist tech cert

accidentally cleared my sentence out oops

I got a IT technician trade degree. Kinda regret it since I work as a software dev and get discriminated against hard.

who fucking cares it's computer science

lel normie

Why are there VMs in fucking Garry's Mod?

Then why did you try to use your CS education as a way to get into the janitorial business? Perhaps you should have thought a bit harder about it and went with a CS career path.

I believe you can write code with the wiremod addon to do stuff like move items around or display stuff on virtual screens.

Why not?
By VMs I mean Expression 2 + EGP and StarFall but also ZCPU which works like real processor having some custom instruction set, physical and virtual memory, interrupts etc and my own virtual machine.
I played gameboy(IIRC) games on some gameboy emulator too. And I remember a guy who made x86 emulator and tried to install DOS on it, it took him few hours. Fun times.

What i don't have a CS degree.

We know that pajeet. Janitors are not computer scientists.

That's not a VM (virtual machine) though.

Well if it's just gameboy emulators and all that then i understand, that's kind of cool.

My choice was between a CS degree or a 2100 hours sales assistant course.
At least a CS degree is somewhat useful

no. I regret not just going for it originally. started in engineering and ended up hating it. Wasted a lot of time (and money) pursing it. If I would have just gone for CS from the get go I probably would have been golden. Oh well, I have a pretty good career now.

I started CE last semester, thought i was going to love embedded programming and electronic since i pretty much grew up building shit with logical gates. BUT now i hate everything low level, it's so much nicer to just do high level coding

Nope. Got a job doing HFT at a top IB in NYC, 85k base. 20-30k bonus.

That's minimum wage in NYC, wont even be enough for living in Manhattan

I spend 20% of my income on rent. I live a ten minute walk from midtown where I work.

the rent by itself is not relevant. The {rent + bills + insurance + taxes + ...} is what matters.

Yes I know about personal finance. NYC is not too expensive to live in if you make over 70k a year. I save a lot of money and max my 401k. Not sure why you're telling me I'm unable to do something that myself and thousands of people do. lmao

If you're scared of H1B prajeet dipshits, then you're a shitty programmer.

What do people mean by getting "a" CS degree? Doesn't it split off into a lot of different sub categories and you get a degree in that? Keep in mind that I'm not sure if I'm wording this correctly.

>be CS degree pollack
>was given only 2 interviews in total with UK companies in the last 2 months
bros I don't think I'm going to make it

pics of your sister?

Ok, since CS degree are laughed at in U.S.A. what should I say when someone ask me what is my degree ?
I'm learning programming. But it look a little more advanced than what people do in CS. It's a five year degree btw.

going to a cc for computer programming & analysis
could anybody recommend me any books or lectures to get a headstart?

diplom engineer?

Yeah, but it's still called CS, just like whether you go statistics or geometry, it's still called math.

how to kill yourself in 21 days would be the best for you.

That makes sense, thanks a bunch man.

Good thing I got recruited for a job straight after HS. Getting a CS degree kills your soul.

Isn't the engineer degree even lower in the scale than the CS degree?
I just want that when I tell people what is my degree they just go "whoa" and ask me if I'm already working for google.

People who "are already working for google" either have CS or math degrees, and mostly master's and higher. BSc at google exist but are rarer. Of course, IT is IT.