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[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: z0mb13

Originally posted by: maddogchen
Hardships: LISP programming......GOD I hated that language.

LISP owns!!

its so straight to the point!!

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LISP + EMACS + correct indentation is easy to understand...

 

[JDub02]

BS in Computer Science and Engineering - 2002 - GPA 3.5 - Bucknell University

The only thing I had a hard time with was ... well .. nothing really. College was pretty easy, for the most part.

I minored in Statistics .. almost had enough for another minor in Classics.


If I go for graduate work, it'll be for Engineering Management at Syracuse University.

 

[wasssup]

jesus everyone's a genius here...

i bombed computer engineering when i was in the program, switched to CS in my third year and although i've maintained a decent GPA since then there's only so much you can do to make it all up...

major gpa: 3.0
cumulative: 2.3

Unfortunately i'm graduating this semester and still haven't found a job (I need a car already dammit)

 

[Cerebus451]

I've got a CS degree. Had to retake 3 classes overall. One was a freshman CS class that I got a C- in (and anything below a C you had to retake). I got an F in a math class, but it was one required for my Math double major, not strictly CS. The third class was a Humanities class I got a D in freshman year, but I was able to drop it from my record and retake it. My overall GPA was around 3.1, 3.4 in CS.

Never got my Masters. I started to just after I graduated while I was working, but decided at the time it was too soon to be taking classes again, and never got back to persuing it. At this point with over 10 years experience a Masters degree would be moot.

 

[Ynog]

I have a

BS and MS in CS, and am still debating a MS in CE. I have a few classes taken, just not sure I want to
finish the degree, All depends. Right now the classes are mainly for work.

No real hardships. High work load, lots of math, but I expected that. I had some hellish class assignments
but when they were finished I kind of enjoyed them.

I never had to retake a CS class, CS classes were the classes that raised my GPA.
Though my other classes didn't drop my GPA all that much.

GPA ended up being 3.8

Only real hardship might have been a very limited number of pretty faces. But thats
what bars and parties were for.

 

[calbear2000]

I graduated in 2000 with a masters in EE from UC Berkeley. The hardest time I had was actually as an undergrad - staying up 50 hours straight for simultaneous CS150 and EE141 project deadlines (anyone in EECS at Cal knows how stupid I am for taking those 2 classes together!)

Classes can be dropped... which is why my gpa was ~3.6

I would never go back for a Phd... industry is so much easier!

 

[Pakaderm]

CSC degree from Cal Poly, SLO. Started there as a freshman.

-Pak

 

[Spamela]

hardships: once i had to take several finals when i had an extremely bad case of the flu.
i was shaking & couldn't think, but you either took the final or took an F for the final.

never had to take a class twice.

GPA - high

Master's - i have one in CS from University of California.

 

[Zombie]

yeh, I got one of those things.

Hardest thing for me was to be stuck in school taking useless classes while everybody else was making a killing in late 90's.

Never took a class twice

3.0 GPA with 25hr/week internship(more in my senior year).

I would rather get a master's in MIS or Business.

 

[edro]

Go ahead and call it a "fake" degree, but I have a CET (Computer Engineering Technology) bachelors from DeVry.

 

[FrogDog]

I hate reading threads like this (but I do it anyways of course). 3.7, 3.5, 3.8...The pleasant thing is that I know there are even more people (maybe not around here) sporting sub 3.0 GPAs.

Mine is right around 3.0 right now. Doing my second year of CS. I currently have a failing grade bringing down my GPA which I am redoing this semester. Stupid C...

 

[DaveSimmons]

Originally posted by: FrogDog
I hate reading threads like this (but I do it anyways of course). 3.7, 3.5, 3.8...The pleasant thing is that I know there are even more people (maybe not around here) sporting sub 3.0 GPAs.

Mine is right around 3.0 right now. Doing my second year of CS. I currently have a failing grade bringing down my GPA which I am redoing this semester. Stupid C.. .

Do you just do the minimum required reading and coding for your classes, or do you do extra on your own time?

You can change if you want to -- a friend at UMSL was a straight-B student when I met him as a junior, but he started putting more effort into his studies and was getting mostly As by the time he graduated.

 

[atom]

Originally posted by: FrogDog
I hate reading threads like this (but I do it anyways of course). 3.7, 3.5, 3.8...The pleasant thing is that I know there are even more people (maybe not around here) sporting sub 3.0 GPAs.

Mine is right around 3.0 right now. Doing my second year of CS. I currently have a failing grade bringing down my GPA which I am redoing this semester. Stupid C...

Heh I'll admit it, I have a sub 3.0 GPA overall with a ~3.6 GPA for the CS classes (might be 3.5X I can't remember exactly). Nothing like going to see a guidance counselor and trying to explain why you got an A in 2nd quarter C++ but you failed every other GE class that quarter...

As far as hardships go, I don't think there were any that are specific to engineering. Just need proper time management, which is true of any major. I took quite a few classes over, all of them GE classes. I had to learn my lesson the hard way, if you fsck around early on it only means you have to work that much harder junior and senior year.