mort can give u any info for intro level classes
if its a lottery or not for cs program, ucsd cs is a lottery, didn’t apply to anything but is still ok applied aerospace engineering do 20 applications in order to increase ur chances applications isn’t 1-1 school doesn’t matter much for undergrads ucsd engineering have strong engineering/cs program large school switching is an option cs is hard to switch into at ucsd ucsd has a lot of ml professors that work with chatgpt with the linguistics department professors can indicate university choices other cs related majors tend to be balanced, while pure cs is packed code ninjas in rancho bernardo can help, especially teaching positions CP is good, freelance web dev is also good doing something that is useful for the community is good breadth is better than depth, see what u like in college apps also leadership is important also use cold email and cold call interview talk to our project what was the application make an impact or show how ur passion shows out
internships and jobs
tristan got into cs late junior year and then took csa made sure to spend time coding programming projects and experimenting with stuff can spend extra time doing great projects connections can help, esp friends half of the things in the applications were completed by csp+csa kept my job at LG due to the work he put in the class if u want to get into cs, u should spend time building projects start small, ask youtube u can build various applications that incorporate cs personal website helps a lot one thing to say that you know python, one thing to show tangibles keeping your repository in one place helps employers ucsd focuses on ui/ux portfolios redesign something that a company that u want to join has follow the path of least resistance find something thats cool to u and improve that u can do a passion project for fun anthony thinks that projects arent good leetcode is better its more manageable than doing a project is better for interviews coding part isn’t easy leetcode is difficult leetcode is necessary for google most ppl dont get jobs until they’re finished with their bachelors leetcode can be depressing do something simple and fun northrop grumman hip internship leveraged cyberpatriot leverage ur experience to get good internships apply in fall of ur school year show that ur committed to ur internships u can go in the real world and help local businesses deployed neural network at supercomputer center vercel for flask deployment streamline for svelkit react personal website lot of technical skills to website easy to show resume doubles as a project tailin css top 10 tools for software engineering modern software engineering uses a lot of those tools used by common people vercel and svelkit are free dont skip fundamentals they redesign uber best ideas for projects are to help others ucsd mostly has uiux u can find a lot of info on the youtube use chatgpt responsibly
personal projects creative endaevors poscasts youtube videos helps make a website more unique and not a brick in the wall
u can add lessons learned to a portfolio to make it stand out more
linkedin can help you get internships
its still hard to get internships
handshake is good for internships
most universities want a year of experience
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