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.