cal student commits suicide...

[quantide]

..cause he couldnt get in comp sci
http://www.dailycal.org/article.asp?id=7998

 

[b0mbrman]

<< ..cause he couldnt get in comp sci
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That's awful

 

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[Darien]

man, that's one of the most messed up reasons for commiting suicide i've ever heard...

 

[rival]

<< The death is still under investigation by police, who have not confirmed the man's identity >>


yet theres a picture of him and his name all over the article

however any suicide/death sucks...

if you, yes you are thinkin about suicide, seek help, change something in your life, find a way

oh btw, smile..it feels good

a smurf walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Hey, why so blue?"

 

[Yzzim]

Wasn't there someone here at AT a couple weeks ago that couldn't get into CompSci? :Q

 

[gopunk]

i coudln't get into compsci either... depressing... yes...

i think a lot of cs programs need to readjust their admission criterea... i think too many people that just have high grades get in, while some people that really love computer science are rejected because they didnt' do so well in some other classes.

but i'm not sure that i'd kill myself.

 

[gopunk]

<< Wasn't there someone here at AT a couple weeks ago that couldn't get into CompSci? :Q >>



you can be quiet now

 

[b0mbrman]

<< Geez, why do so many people kill themselves in Evans? That one year there was that one guy who jumped off the top of the building.
Yeah it's basically impossible to get into L&S CS at Cal. He should have dropped out and gone to a cal state. >>


Isn't there a cs in engineering that's not eecs?

And Evans because that's where all the real L&S majors are...Math, Physics, Stat, Econ, CS...you don't hear about anything in Moses cuz when was the last time you saw a stressed-out philosophy major?

 

[Yzzim]

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<< Wasn't there someone here at AT a couple weeks ago that couldn't get into CompSci? :Q >>



you can be quiet now >>


hahaha

Hey bud, don't get any ideas

 

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[gopunk]

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you can be quiet now >>


hahaha

Hey bud, don't get any ideas >>




heh, no suicide for me. bad for my health.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Dumbass. At least he should have wasted away into a haze of alcohol and other illicit substances before commiting suicide . . ..

Okay, I do apologize for the tasteless joke, but that's a damn sad reason to kill yourself . . ..:disgust:

 

[Yzzim]

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you can be quiet now >>


hahaha

Hey bud, don't get any ideas >>




heh, no suicide for me. bad for my health. >>


And you wonder why you didn't get into CS?

 

[b0mbrman]

<< Dumbass. At least he should have wasted away into a haze of alcohol and other illicit substances before commiting suicide . . ..
Okay, I do apologize for the tasteless joke, but that's a damn sad reason to kill yourself . . ..:disgust: >>


A lot of people here really care about school...they take it way too far sometimes.

 

[quantide]

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<< Isn't there a cs in engineering that's not eecs? >>



I think so, but as I understand it, it's pretty exclusive. You can't get in if you aren't in engineering already. L&S CS everyone can apply for, but only the most pyschotic can get in. While I was at cal, you needed a 3.7 GPA in the core classes to get in. Everyone else became a cogsci major. >>



actually many people have gotten in with 3.0-3.4

haha, cogsci. "mcdonalds major"

 

[tweakmm]

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<< Wasn't there someone here at AT a couple weeks ago that couldn't get into CompSci? :Q >>



you can be quiet now >>


hahaha

Hey bud, don't get any ideas >>




heh, no suicide for me. bad for my health. >>


damn.... that's a light way of putting it

 

[gopunk]

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<< Dumbass. At least he should have wasted away into a haze of alcohol and other illicit substances before commiting suicide . . ..
Okay, I do apologize for the tasteless joke, but that's a damn sad reason to kill yourself . . ..:disgust: >>


A lot of people here really care about school...they take it way too far sometimes. >>



clearly... i'm still hopeful that i'll get into the cs program next time i apply, or that some other school will take me, but even if i don't... i think there's plenty in life to be enjoyed that isn't dependant on being a cs major. it's depressing to get rejected, but that's why you get pissed off and decide you're going to succeed, with or without a cs degree.

 

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[quantide]

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<< actually many people have gotten in with 3.0-3.4 >>



Has it gotten easier lately? When I was there, it was basically impossible.

Maybe the dotcom crash has soured people's taste on tech educations. >>



heres a statistic

http://buffy.eecs.berkeley.edu/Advising/CS/Peer/lowerdivision/admissionsstatistics.html

 

[MikeO]

All these people who think their lifes suck and isn't going anywhere should try to be me for a few days.. but I don't think about suicide because I know there's lots of people who's life suck even more and would pay to be me. I try to be happy for what I have.

 

[littlezipp]

This is terrible, and certainly not a reason to kill oneself! The real problem is that there is way too much pressure on us college kids nowadays from society, our parents, even ourselves. Sit back, relax, and hug a nerd.

 

[BuckleDownBen]

Well, he lived in Le Chateua, which is a co-op, so there is a 99.99% chance he was heavily involved with drugs, so that probably played a part in it. Also, I get depressed just thinking about Evans with its classes with no windows. None of the professors in there give a damn about anything but their reputations. I hated taking classes there. The only good Professor I had was an Associate Professor and they wouldn't give him tenure. Now that I think about it, the people in that building are probably the least personable and sympathetic of any group of people I've encountered.

I was a math major at Cal Berkeley. I graduated in 1995.

 

[b0mbrman]

<< haha, cogsci. "mcdonalds major" >>


Interesting...the one cog-sci major I know is also most conceited in regard to intelligence--here at Cal

 

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