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What do you want to do next? Grad school? Stick in school, take some advanced math or CS, work on building your references/recommenders? Get a job? If you've
by tom_b 17y ago
What do you want to do next?
Grad school? Stick in school, take some advanced math or CS, work on building your references/recommenders?
Get a job? If you've think you can pick something up easily, leave early. You'll start earning and learning. In the real world learning is usually more fun than undergrad. I don't know what the market is like for new grads here in the US right now.
I guess that for the most part, nobody really cares whether it took you 3 1/2 or 4 years (or 2 or 6 . . . whatever). What most people will want to know about is what your real CS hacking experience is. If you've already got good projects (something with a little depth, not the eight sorting algorithms you implemented in Java), that's what you'll be talking about with potential employers the most.
Plus, you're posting to the startup/hacker friendlies - if you have "funding" for the last semester, setup an independent study to stay in school and use that as a vehicle to do your own startup. Get a smart co-founder and have at it.
Good luck - congrats on getting to the end of school.
- ahlatimer 17y agoI'll probably get a full-time job, keep it for a few years, then go back to school and get my MBA. I already have a job...two, in fact. Gotta make rent. I don't know that I can pick up a full-time gig easily. Where I live now doesn't have much in the way of a tech industry, so I'd have to move. That leaves me in an unfamiliar territory with limited cash reserves. It would be nice to be done with school, but I don't want to shoot myself in the foot doing so. The idea of taking an independent study and using it as a motivation to do a start-up sounds like a good one.