its pretty late in the game to be looking for a summer job Goddamn it. I just found out yesterday that the job I'd been angling for (an REU undergrad research position) rejected me. The prof I planned to work for (we arranged this separately from REU) said he'd have funding even if I didn't get accepted, but then it turns out he doesn't.
I'm a Comp Sci major, freshman year with sophomore standing (ie: I've taken more than Java). I know about 5 languages. Any tips on finding a job at this stage?
This means nothing in a world where fashion has made female "socializing" clothing so revealing that to get any more revealing on ovulation they'd have to walk around in lingerie.
Well, OK, they could still get "Futurama" revealing, but that would probably freeze them to death in cold climates.
Here at UMass Amherst we're currently in the opening days of our second game of Humans vs. Zombies. The first was played beginning last Halloween. I'm currently a zombie.
To all those telling us to get lives: we have them. Humans often get tagged because they tried to continue normal campus life during the game. It's not a LARPing thing: nobody dresses up; we just wear a band around our arm or head to indicate team status. Games usually last a couple of weeks, and consist of normal play coupled with "missions" that reward either human or zombie for accomplishing objectives as a team. One of those missions is always a food drive for the poor. Sure, we have to hide our Nerf guns during room inspections, but even the RAs really don't give a damn (like they apparently do at Bowling Green. To top it off, HvZ players are usually some of the coolest, most interesting people on campus (including numerous attractive women).
It's good clean fun for college kids that doesn't necessarily involve getting wasted (though you can, and we do, play wasted here at UMass). What's not to like?
Who cares if it's easy to get an A as a history major? As an honors student who can only attend school on a scholarship: I CARE. I care that the honors college doesn't give a shit about my major, but requires a 3.2 GPA to maintain honors status.
It means that if I run into trouble for a semester or two, I'm out. That's it. Not because I failed anything, but because I failed to ace it. That ain't right!
But burn-out aside, if you're willing to sacrifice other aspects of your life, you can get more science done. Yeah, but you'll entirely fail to make a neat gun, and after a while you really won't be still alive.
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TRUE DAT. For example, Samuel Adams (a major American brewer) produces perfectly good actual beer. They just make you pay up the ass for it because they're the only real beer on the market.
I've honestly never seen that. Most Mac users I know (including myself) are techies who switched from Linux to get better hardware support out-of-the-box.
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I meant programming languages. I'm only fluent in one natural language and proficient in another.
I'll have what he's having!
I'm a Comp Sci major, freshman year with sophomore standing (ie: I've taken more than Java). I know about 5 languages. Any tips on finding a job at this stage?
This means nothing in a world where fashion has made female "socializing" clothing so revealing that to get any more revealing on ovulation they'd have to walk around in lingerie.
Well, OK, they could still get "Futurama" revealing, but that would probably freeze them to death in cold climates.
FRUSTRATED FIVE! *WAH-BAM*
Yeah, I watch too much Scrubs.
Ewww... too stringy! Brrrraaaiiinnnsnsss!
Yeah, about those room inspections: they only take place when we go home for breaks. The rest of the time, our RAs here leave us the hell alone.
That's because the US military wants to occupy Iraq, whereas most of its strength lies in sheer destruction.
Permission to sig that sagely remark?
And to top it off, at my school (UMass) "Still Alive" by Jonathan Coulton has become the semi-official anthem of Humans vs. Zombies.
This was a triumph. I'm making a note here: BRRRRAAAAIIIINNNSSSS!
When do we want 'em? BRRRRAAAAIIIINNNSSSSS!!!!
Here at UMass Amherst we're currently in the opening days of our second game of Humans vs. Zombies. The first was played beginning last Halloween. I'm currently a zombie.
To all those telling us to get lives: we have them. Humans often get tagged because they tried to continue normal campus life during the game. It's not a LARPing thing: nobody dresses up; we just wear a band around our arm or head to indicate team status. Games usually last a couple of weeks, and consist of normal play coupled with "missions" that reward either human or zombie for accomplishing objectives as a team. One of those missions is always a food drive for the poor. Sure, we have to hide our Nerf guns during room inspections, but even the RAs really don't give a damn (like they apparently do at Bowling Green. To top it off, HvZ players are usually some of the coolest, most interesting people on campus (including numerous attractive women).
It's good clean fun for college kids that doesn't necessarily involve getting wasted (though you can, and we do, play wasted here at UMass). What's not to like?
As a UMass Amherst-nik, I must ask: why go to the Lowell campus?
I understood the first text too, but then again, I already know what the Second Law of Thermodynamics is.
Still, having to read that as an assignment would put me straight to sleep.
What was the state school 35 miles from MIT? I'm in a state school in Massachusetts, myself.
It means that if I run into trouble for a semester or two, I'm out. That's it. Not because I failed anything, but because I failed to ace it. That ain't right!
Wow, you must really have transgressed their boundaries!
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TRUE DAT. For example, Samuel Adams (a major American brewer) produces perfectly good actual beer. They just make you pay up the ass for it because they're the only real beer on the market.
They're talking about basic statistics and differential calculus. Please hand in your geek license and your bachelors degree.
Bah. Real hackers first write a metacircular evaluator to interpret their new virus.
Well, most of them. Israelis have enough money to buy consumer electronics, but they pirate everything instead.
Brrrraiiiiiinnnnsssss.... Apple productssssss.... Brraraaiiiinssss jooooiiinnnn usssss!!!!!
I've honestly never seen that. Most Mac users I know (including myself) are techies who switched from Linux to get better hardware support out-of-the-box.
They're totally dissimilar! I mean, when Apple "thinks different" it's a good thing!
Those are in the Old Testament. The New Testament is defined as being the Jesus bits.