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extra credit

takeaways and reflections at the end

speaker 1

works in ucsd, a mechinal engineer.

  • a lottery or not, the cs is a lottery and most people do not get in
  • did not do cs and went to ME
  • leadership are also a good things to include in your cs application
    • better than have nothing for it.
  • supercomputers in ucsd

internships and jobs

  • take the time when you deploy you code
  • have something tangible
  • cheated their employeer by using their old code.

tristen

studies in miramar, studies cs and works at lg rn

  • made a mistake and didn’t apply to anything
  • transfers into a college

internships and jobs

  • got into cs late, before csp had no prior coding knowledge
  • spent a lot of time coding projects
  • not a ton of homework for cs
  • make a passion project for yourself.
  • his friends dad made employed him.
  • the best web developer on the team
  • kept his job in lg and he is not a member of the team.
  • spent time biilding projects and it will get you somehwre.
  • tey start off building something small
  • search on youtube and show it to any hireer and they wiull accept you
  • deploy the project on vercel, you cans end the lonk to whoever you want.
  • codify the things you love

mable

ucsd, cognitive science, neural learning. cs helped her

  • applied to aerospace E
  • have a strong engineering major
  • cs is hard to switch into and highly impaved
  • look into more niche things such as data science
  • cs is very competeive
  • many professors at ucsd work on chatgpt
  • find a prof. that you like and apply there.
  • cognative science is a diverse course.
  • she wanted a well rounded major
  • cs is impacted with so much lore.
  • she did not wanted to pure cs
  • depending on which school you go to, you have to do interview
    • you have to talk with your audit
    • show your passion

antony

he sees a lot of familiar faces, studies at uci. working at cs. focus hard and you will be fine in cs at a college level.

  • the only one who applied to cs
  • apply to many as you can bc it is a dice
  • undergrad does not matter
  • makes 150k a year
  • uc is expensive
  • he did not factor the cost
  • worked in code ningas
  • work at any extra circular cs code
    • it shows that you have the ability to teach people
  • the projects is better.
  • if it impacts your community, then you should include it in your application
  • everyone needs to know cs before moving on

takeaways:

  • have tangible code to show your progress.
  • use youtube to improve on your projects
  • use vercel to deploy your personal projects
  • enjoy coding, turn what you love into code. even your family.
  • do leet code asap, do 1 hour a day.
  • transfer to uc cs.
  • balance extracurricular
  • apply for an internship
  • vercel
  • sveltkit, web design.
  • personal website, code a nice personal website. put on resume for
  • tailwind css.
  • drink the koolaid.
  • hyperplexed
  • make a linked in profile or indeed for internships.