Who has the money to go to UTexas ?
XD

Btw, in Canada, there is also a lot of R/D. I believe the biggest thing in "CS" in Canada is the BELL LABS. Lots of partnerships. Maybe bigger than US.

It was super big in ~1980s and still super big here.


Why not go to UTexas ? It is like the BELLS lab in Canada.

Oh, well. Just hypothetical.

















I would like some attention. :(


I don't know why you all mean to IVY Schools. BIG UNIS funded by GOV and BIG CORPS is the way to go if it is most prestigious.

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Who has the money to go to UTexas ?

If you're in-state and do well academically, it's basically free. And if it's too expensive still (assuming you did well academically, again), odds are A&M is right in that financial safety zone.

Texas and Cali get a really nice situation to work with when it comes to colleges- if you hustle enough through high school, your baseline is a flagship state university with significant research involvement but rather reasonable costs. It's a hard offer to beat and really narrows down the field of universities you have to apply to. Similar situations for the few other states with really solid state universities- Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia to some extent, etc. (although not all of these universities are all that well-rounded, so if they're not great at the fields you're actually passionate about, tough luck.)

Texas has it even nicer than the others, though, since state unis are legally obligated to accept the top x% (by class rank) of graduating high school students from their state. Plus the universities are loaded af (UT has a bigger endowment than Yale thanks to oil money) that they're solid on the financial front, too.

There's a lot to be said about being in a non-shit state for high school. Not all state universities are created equal.

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Did UTexas pay you to advertise? You've mentioned their uni 6 times already...

:P Nah, I mean, I ended up turning them down in the end (for college) lol. I don't recommend picking them over other options (depends on what you get on the table) but being a graduating high school student in Texas with reasonably solid academic performance puts you in a really good position.

I guess I'm advertising that sweet situation, not really the universities themselves.

Or since it's not something people can really control, just shitting on all the inferior states that don't invest in public higher ed.

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No, not you, Hostile...

Ah, yeah, can't figure that out myself.

Maybe it's because Hostile seems to be mostly interested in CS offshoots like game design and UT is a pretty obvious bang-for-your-buck program for CS. If you get in but go somewhere else, they tend to become your null hypothesis/grass-is-greener college- i.e., while walking to an exam I knew would be tough during freshman year, I remember thinking, "If I'd just taken UT-Austin, I could be getting so blazed right now instead of having to worry about topology."

I just looked for replies. :3

This is not the only UNI that I "hack" pdf files from or do readings.

With google hacking (search operators), it is even possible to get full courses notes custom-made by a teacher. :P

Well, you have sites with "open courses".

MIT and Coursera are one of the big sources of free courses and most "official/big/professional". It is still a good thing to check courses from other unis like pdf files.


Or just read through a pdf course document about quantum physics or something if you are really bored.

Sure there are textbooks you can buy and similar references, knowledge repositories. Not always have any particular goal in reading. Cyberwarfare or rocket science about the technology behind rovers in space...

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I am very "amateur". Not focusing on my particular of science.

I don't imagine myself having a lot of opportunities. Just wondering what all the folks "better than me" are all doing.

I am probably not the one that can afford to spend lots of money. I mean not particularly rich family or rich friends. :P

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I am not superb in CS and I am in hybrid program like Electronician & formal Computer CS. Something along those lines.

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I am also not inebriated when making some of those long posts like some people think. >:( :sadface:

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If I was ambitious and had the economic opportunity. Could maybe go for the BELLS Labs in Canada. hehehe

Just to measure myself against others. And as strategy of trying the highest first and scaling down if not work.

So doesn't end too far of my "potential". hehehe


Not really want to be super rich or anything. More like for social status (e.g.: "ACCOMPLISHED MAN" Victorian style as in HONEST WORK, SOCIAL STATUS, USEFUL CONTRIBUTION TO SOCIETY, POLITICALLY INVOLVED , MARRIAGE and SOCIAL CLASS = ACHIEVEMENTS -> meritocracy)

Oh, driving this thread off-topic. How much victorian values have UNIs or those that go to UNIS ?

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:P As they say, comparison is the killer of joy.

Well, imagining or dreaming about things can be a source of comfort.

If you can like create believable alternative scenarios for fun, it can be a relief sometimes.

Like there is some kind of degree of liberty of choice so it doesn't really matter if you ended where you are. Pretty much like the brownian motion. XD


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterfactual_thinking


Something like that.

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I mean if you do a good work of introspection, it is possible to "correct" your life trajectory drastically.

Two comments:

1 - knyte poo-pooed Harvard's CS program, but a few years ago, Steve Ballmer gave them a lot of money to hire new profs., and so it would now be a great place to go for CS.

2 - if you are a very good student but worried about money, definitely apply to the famous private universities in addition to your state uni - yes, full tuition is too much for most people to pay, but they give many scholarships. You can even apply for a waiver for the application fee.

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Harvard's not a bad CS program, but:

a) having alumni throw money at you to poach profs is not uncommon. UCSD just did that two years ago (I'm still salty b/c they took Kesden before I got a chance to take his class), at least a couple major unis do this every year.

b) it's not just the profs that make the program, lots more to it although having some great profs and great labs helps a ton (especially for research-oriented grad programs; undergrad it varies a bunch)

c) they are a solid program, definitely not the poster child of great-name-but-shit-tier-engineering (that's Brown), and you can also probably find a great CS program at Columbia too- but if you get the option to go to, say, MIT, you should take it over Harvard 9 times out of 10

Also, keep in mind that not all private universities are equally generous with scholarships (FAFSA #'s are just suggestions for the most part), even if you're actually in the poverty-ish range for income. But some are super-generous and you can get full rides off them if your financial situation is bad enough, so don't let finances keep you from applying to at least a couple. My general strat was to make sure you've got a 100% guarantee of getting into a school that is financially comfortable, then make sure you've got a 100% guarantee of getting into a school that's better than the previous financial safety (if one exists- if not, skip this step), then a 50-80% chance (your call) on getting into at least one school better than your safety/finsafety (if one exists), and then apply to reaches until you run out of resources to apply. Don't narrow the field until you actually have to, basically- so don't trim out schools you *want* to go to until you actually have to apply.

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Harvard's CS program has changed a lot in the last 2-3 years, and now would be a great time to join.

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Definitely apply to the Ivies and try for a scholarship. Some of them offer full tuition scholarship for low income students and loans for housing and other expenses. Low income students benefit from the Ivy League education a lot more than the high income students do (who would probably fare just about as well in the job market as if they went to a public university).

Definitely apply to the Ivies and try for a scholarship. Some of them offer full tuition scholarship for low income students and loans for housing and other expenses.

Fortunately, I'm not a low-income student, but which means I get no federal aid or as many scholarship opportunities. :(

JUST DO IT, MAKE YOUR MEMES COME TRUE.

In the UK we have an equivalent to the ivy league called the 'Russel group', although I think its got quite a few more universities in it.
I'm doing a degree in comp sci (not in Russel group one though) and I think it is necessary for various career paths, like maths based ones. If you want to do something very practical maybe its not for you. However there are various standardised ways of doing things and procedures and a university course will teach you them.

(Over 1 million Shia LaBeoufs)

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Im currently a Junior, but I want to go into Aviation, some big schools for me would be

-Air Force Academy
-Middle Tennessee State
-Univ. North Dakota
-Lewis Univ.

Or somehwere in Florida like
-USF
-UCF
-Univ. Florida
-FGCU
-Jacksonville State

@DerWyyy: Seems like a solid career path. How good are you at dragging people off of planes?

>college
Literally the greatest con ever pulled. Only schools worth going to are military ones