>Apply to uni >By some miracle get into the 10% percent of high school students >Struggle after a two years of study STEM and especially math heavy stuff like CS or engineering should require an IQ test before entering. Nobody should suffer or stall like I did.
Incidentally it could just be done with authentication using bank credentials
...and if they're not you're probably not in a good program
Ryder Brooks
OP Have you tried changing up your study habits?
There are resources such as TAs and office hours with your professor, and forming study groups is SUPER helpful for CS due to the collaborative nature.
Trust me, if you work by yourself exclusively you're going to end up spending 6 hours to fix a small bug every time unless you're a real wiz kid.
John Scott
not true. i went to world top 10 cs, didnt even buy the textbooks,or study much, finished the exams in half the time then handed in and still got dean's list.
cs hard for you? its like this. some people find 1+1=2 hard. this is most people in CS. moving up the tiers you get people find 9999*9999 hard. its all hard, but depends on what tier youre stuck at
being smart is not a blessing its a constant reminder of how dumb the people around you are. then you meet the 0.1% who are on the same level and its an awesome convo everytime. you bond much more because you can actually help in other, wheres 99.9% people do not have the mental ability to help you elevate your smartness/wisdom/insight
Ethan Wilson
No IQ is required. I mean zero IQ is needed. You just need to work harder and stop being a lazy POS.
You sound like a retard. The difficulty of computer science was in the time required to finish the assignments, projects, and consume the information required for the exams.
>then you meet the 0.1% who are on the same level and its an awesome convo everytime If you notice how no genuinely talented people behave like this it's much easier to see you have a superiority complex.
Jordan Ward
nobody finds basic arithmetic hard and no one ever had an 'awesome convo' as a college student. a cs degree is a filter for effort not intelligence. people wait to 'help' one another when their reports are within earshot except for close friends
Sebastian Parker
Also it's too easy to adopt a learned helplessness mindset today >IQ is too low >I feel sad I need drugs for depression >I'm too ugly to get a girlfriend after brainwashing myself with social media and porn
literally stop being a little bitch
Ethan Bailey
literally why stop
Logan Smith
so these threads can stop existing and perpetuating this garbage attitude which helps no one
Dylan Foster
this college isn't necessarily meant to test your intelligence but how you use that intelligence, how you organize your shit, how hard you work by yourself and with others, etc.
Andrew Gonzalez
it's just venting, even if op had an incredible attitude they'd still want to vent sometimes
Asher Harris
maybe I'm also meta-larp venting from the position I want to be in
Christian James
>i went to world top 10 cs Yeah no you didnt.
Jordan Wright
Top 10 for cs you say? Alright let's test your skills. >Define a simple scripting language and API suitable for creating algorithms. Can enter scripts directly into an interactive game then see its performance in an actual real-time car race created with the Unity graphics engine and physics model Store & rank best algorithms in a leader board, with new players able to build onto existing well performing algorithms.
I did chemical engineering and wanted to kill myself at the workload and my retardation every day for the 6 years that it took me.
Three years out, I'm now making 6 figures in a completely unrelated field. Thing is, the only way I got in is because I had that engineering degree.
Robert Hughes
This
Nathan Brooks
that's fine but do you really want to keep perpetuating this garbage existence where nobody can form any words or actions without irony
Camden Nelson
This is childs play give me a real challenge
Bentley Howard
I graduated with a 2.15 GPA btw, I swear I'm not fully retarded, just mostly
Leo Stewart
That was a screening test for a crazy-hard-to-get-into company. Here's another one: >There are around 250 million smartphones in the US alone. That's a huge computing resource which lies unused much of the time as even today's teenagers rarely check Facebook while they sleep. Design a distributed compute framework with a central server which can split up large compute tasks into small jobs and distribute them to mobile clients. Your solution should be cross platform so using JavaScript and either running in-browser or via Ionic may be a good choice. Once you have a basic setup running with a server, client and demo distributed application there are lots of extensions to consider: How can you secure the platform so that it can't easily be stolen for use as a giant ready-made botnet? Can you come up with a business model where clients can pay for compute time and mobile phone owners are incentivised to provide it? Malicious phone owners might try to provide bad data either to deliberately attack a paying client or to increase their processing speed and therefore get paid more - can you stop them?
Jacob Reyes
>larping as a brainlet cuck
Elijah Hughes
me also making literally $100,000.01 (minus $48k student loan + interest) at age 24
Kayden Perry
It's kind of funny how colleges work. Out of HS I had a 90 average and got into engineering. Then dropped out with my friends 3rd year to get a meme certificate. Then worked as a software engineer for 3 years. Now I want to finish my degree but I'm like hard-locked out of their system because I'd have to apply with a 2.7 GPA and there's no way they'll let me use my HS marks. I'm raising my GPA taking courses in night school but this has got to be the hardest one can fuck themselves.
Brayden Perry
well, uh, actually, i wouldn't like to define your entire business for you as i have another interview later this afternoon, but thank you for your time and i really enjoyed this weird shared office space you invited me to, do i exit back through the call center?
Nicholas Cooper
>he is going to interview for an inferior company alright user bye, sorry you won't be able to work with oxbridge graduates.
Benjamin Scott
>so using JavaScript You want to do systems programming in JavaScript? I'd call the interviewer an idiot right here and walk out.
Logan Evans
to quote my company "we're far more interested in raw ability than specific experience with any tools or technologies you may have had" it doesn't matter what I give you, javascript/python/c++, you are expected to do it and do it well
Connor Foster
I wish m8
Instead I'm just happily married, and working a fulfilling career
The concept of this question is unrealistic because each node on the network has a tiny amount of compute power to perform a significant independent task and too much latency to coordinate any task worth doing. Again JavaScript would be the worst choice of language because you're introducing even more overhead.
Robert Miller
Algo dev. I spoke with the manager and he said this isn't their 'typical' hiring process. They send these challenge questions to CS departments at top schools as a way to identify the exceptional people.
Christopher Lopez
I'm there's a high chance you're larping because this question is seriously shit
Anthony Torres
It's not. The questions are publically available on the Cambridge CS wiki.
Tyler Powell
>STEM and CS are a challenge for everyone
anyone got tips and tricks for a student going to uni for CS? i would consider myself at an intermediate level for java.
It'd be more fun if you knew what you were talking about and made a more convincing larp though
Anthony Nelson
Okay you just proved you're larping. You indicated previously you were quoting a company but this is effectively an undergrad science fair. Here's one about emojis hehe XD wiki.cam.ac.uk/cl-design-projects/Emo_Face
Logan Ross
What I am is irrelevant. I'm just pointing out there are crazy places out there.
William Miller
Listen kid, you got busted. Time to go back into mommys basement and beat watch anime or some shit. Leave the real hard work to us true chads.
William James
>falling for the cs meme
Levi Smith
Found the boomer Either major in pure mathematics or dont go to uni at all, cs is a brainlet degree even retard niggers can do it.
Noah Long
>Either major in pure mathematics or dont go to uni at all, cs is a brainlet degree even retard niggers can do it. After you get your pure math degree you can serve me coffee like all the other hipsters who perused knowledge without application
Ethan Gonzalez
Math majors get scooped up by the military industrial complex and by medium to large banks/investment firms
>a cs degree is a filter for effort not intelligence. found the branlet code monkey. cope.
Colton Peterson
>who perused knowledge without application back to remedial english
Sebastian Sanchez
Pure math majors can run circles around CS Spergs. Have fun making some gay shit in java script while I'm busy creating tomorrowland and saving the world. CS is the ultimate meme cope degree, seen plent of cs guys think they can hang with the top dogs only to be BTFO crying in the back of a lecture hall because they couldn't even handle differential equations. These are the guys who think writing a hello world program is high level and only know how to use javascript. They're all mostly pajeet tier too.
Isaiah Ross
This, i btfo cs retard all time
Cooper Ward
This, i was three years into a pre med program at a top uni but switched to math because pre med was way to easy.
Nolan Bailey
Destiny would BTFO this kid easily.
Xavier Ward
Good thread
Colton Carter
>passed the toughest courses with hard work >anxiety gets worse because I started feeling like the stakes are high and there's no room for failure >start drinking heavily to deal with the anxiety >drinking spirals out of control >start having pretty bad withdrawal symptoms when I'm off the sauce for a few hours >detox by tapering off >start getting ridiculous mood swings, my memory and concentration are shit >struggle to graduate because I can't apply myself anymore Honestly I'd feel like less of a goddamn failure if I ended college by failing year one
While raw intelligence certainly helps in university, it simply impacts how much work you have to put in. There are the people who do 60-80 hours/week on their university work since they have the drive and passion but low intelligence, and then there are the smart people who don't give a shit and spend 6 hours/week on their subjects and get the same result. However, plenty of people with only mediocre intelligence (using intelligence to mean the ability to absorb new concepts and intuitively understand conceptual links) who get through STEM every year, they just have the drive.
Asher Price
Where you up with pure mathematics depends on what you studied. Graph theory - Normally government agencies (enjoy determining optimal traffic light sequencing), electricity companies, or anything involving large scale logistics. Some go into the department of defense because of this Coding theory - Engineering firms will pick you up for extra training to do w/e the fuck they want, also DoD since c r y p t o Measure theory - Fucked if I know, didn't know anyone who did measure theory hard Number theory - Lmao enjoy academia Although, honestly, DoD will pick up literally anyone with a degree since you've proved that you're either not a brainlet, or you are a brainlet but can apply yourself.
The user who said large banks/investment firms is wrong. While there is some ability to transition into that from graph theory, they really do prefer you to have robust operations research knowledge which is firmly outside of pure mathematics and in applied. If you really want to go work for banks or the like, do Actuarial Science as your mathematical subarea, that's the road to a lot of stress and tonnes of money. Enjoy killing yourself after 10 years of it, but leaving a nice will.
Christopher Thompson
Not that guy, but I've seen talented people behave like this a lot. It's usually when talent is mixed with social ineptness, lack of humility, or some complex where you feel spiteful for being bullied and you realize part of it is because you're smart/creative/whatever else. Of course, many would be wise enough to hide these thoughts in public. I feel like people conflate humility/wisdom/intelligence.
Noah Bennett
As a former high performing but arrogant shitbag (I've downgraded to arsehole), I'll say it comes from when your identity ends up being based on your intelligence. It's a combination of defense mechanism and a feeling of "These concepts are so obviously linked, if people can't tell this innately then there must be some legitimate issue with them." You start thinking of things ranging from non-interest in areas to difficulty grasping certain concepts (even when they are explained in a way that doesn't match the person's learning style) with a mental illness. You start to consider people who are dumb as being similar to psychotic schizophrenics or the like, and then you start to want to kill them all. However, you can't, at least not yet, so you end up being aggressive and secretly hoping they'll kill themselves due to their inadequacies.
James Cook
This is very difficult for people not to do, because it would make up so much of your life. If you're talented your mind usually works differently, you feel out of place, and you would bound to constantly think about it. A lot of talented people think they are crazy at first (and it's a thin line) or something else, I can imagine it's a really heavy blow when you realize eventually that everyone gives you weird looks or makes fun of you because what you were doing went over their heads. And contrary to popular belief, many talented people do eventually realize they are high performing, not that hard to see the signs, but they would be more likely to question it and think into it through different perceptions, if they are gifted with the type of intelligence that lets you have critical thinking and perceptiveness (some people are straight up only gifted at logic and lack abilities like this, often pinned as autistic).
>as being similar to psychotic schizophrenics or the like, The schizos I knew are some of the brightest people I've met, they just can't control the hyperactivity of their minds, so they start hallucinating (hyperactive imagination) forming delusions (out of control divergent thinking) having disorganized thinking (unfiltered thinking, which is a key to creativity, but for them, without control). They were like failed geniuses or something.
Justin Peterson
> and you would bound to constantly think about it.
Eh, I should correct this and say, many would be bound to, of course not everyone. It depends on how much you care about things like finding a sense of belonging, introspecting and understanding yourself, finding your place in society, etc. Some people don't give a fuck and just focus on a hobby or whatever.
Jonathan Ramirez
I finished my computer engineering degree with a good gpa and everyone thought I was literally retarded in high school. Why do you fuckers who dont apply themselves get into prestigious schools?
>be math major >spend 30 years solving Fermat's theorum >literally just a proof for why x^12 + y^12 = z^12 never will exist >Oh boy, I proved something that doesnt fucking matter to not exist