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Because of my college credits, I will be entering the University as a Jr. What I'm afraid of is that I will not have enough time to sharpen my skills in a year

by sam191 17y ago

Because of my college credits, I will be entering the University as a Jr. What I'm afraid of is that I will not have enough time to sharpen my skills in a year or two, which is why I've had graduate school in the back of my mind. And also why I feel like I should be coding as much as can now.

nlabs 17y ago
Go to graduate school in human-computer interaction or software engineering. Get an MS and then apply to a startup program.
jey 17y ago
> And also why I feel like I should be coding as much as can now. Yes. DO it. It's important. Code for fun, code for interest, code code code. Just remember that the main objective right now is to learn things and sharpen your skills, so don't get too hung up on external validation/objectives for your coding projects. You can learn a lot of stuff at university, but the prescribed path isn't going to do it for you. You need to seek out the interesting people, interesting projects, and interesting opportunities to really learn stuff.
evgen 17y ago
This gives you a couple of advantages over your peers. Take advantage of your extra credits to take a light course load; enough to qualify as a full-time student but with a bit more free time than others to work on pet projects or take advantage of all of the other great things that you will be surrounded with.
araneae 17y ago
Not to freak you out or anything, but that may not work out as planned. I have a good friend who had an Associate's in CS from a community college, and got into the Cornell School of Engineering. He flunked out, applied to get back in, flunked out again, applied to get back in, and was rejected. He then got his B.A. in history from Ithaca College. University of Washington is a good school, and tough. I'm not saying this is going to happen to you, but community college can be a very different place from a top 4 year university. Also, will your transfer credits count towards your major, or as prerequisites? In many cases, they do not. You may find that despite having enough credits to be a junior, in order to satisfy the requirements of your major you may have to stay at least 3 years (i.e. having a set of 6 mandatory courses to take in which 5 have the previous semester's course as a prerequisite).

by sam191 17y ago

nlabs 17y ago

Go to graduate school in human-computer interaction or software engineering. Get an MS and then apply to a startup program.

jey 17y ago

> And also why I feel like I should be coding as much as can now. Yes. DO it. It's important. Code for fun, code for interest, code code code. Just remember that the main objective right now is to learn things and sharpen your skills, so don't get too hung up on external validation/objectives for your coding projects. You can learn a lot of stuff at university, but the prescribed path isn't going to do it for you. You need to seek out the interesting people, interesting projects, and interesting opportunities to really learn stuff.

evgen 17y ago

This gives you a couple of advantages over your peers. Take advantage of your extra credits to take a light course load; enough to qualify as a full-time student but with a bit more free time than others to work on pet projects or take advantage of all of the other great things that you will be surrounded with.

araneae 17y ago

Not to freak you out or anything, but that may not work out as planned. I have a good friend who had an Associate's in CS from a community college, and got into the Cornell School of Engineering. He flunked out, applied to get back in, flunked out again, applied to get back in, and was rejected. He then got his B.A. in history from Ithaca College. University of Washington is a good school, and tough. I'm not saying this is going to happen to you, but community college can be a very different place from a top 4 year university. Also, will your transfer credits count towards your major, or as prerequisites? In many cases, they do not. You may find that despite having enough credits to be a junior, in order to satisfy the requirements of your major you may have to stay at least 3 years (i.e. having a set of 6 mandatory courses to take in which 5 have the previous semester's course as a prerequisite).