Major in STEM brehs...

[Shang Tsung]

In my opinion the best way to describe college is "you get out, what you put in". Anyone can learn the material it just depends on how much time you want to put in to study. obviously some people learn it faster than others. if you looked at my grades in highschool, you never would have imagined me being an engineer. now im 2 semester from graduating and even made the deans list a couple of times. i think the saying "you can be anything you want to be" is bs and only works in movies but you really don't know what you can accomplish if you set a reasonable goal and do what it takes.

 

[patscorpio]

Breh, nightmares


I still have PCSPIM on my computer at home. I'm afraid to even delete it. If it doesn't bother me, I wont bother it


You worked with COBOL? How old are you breh?

man my assembler was installed on my old gateway with XP on it...i no longer have that old gateway with XP on it

im in my mid 30s breh...i got my 1st internship in 2003...company that still used mainframes..big time...they needed assistance with testing stuff out and shyt...so they threw me a JCL and COBOL book..told me to learn as they gave me stuff to do because it would really help them and me out...they were paying me 1000-1100 after taxes every 2 weeks...i did what i was told lol

 

[FLATOP]

Parents should care about their kids education

 

[Gold]

man my assembler was installed on my old gateway with XP on it...i no longer have that old gateway with XP on it

im in my mid 30s breh...i got my 1st internship in 2003...company that still used mainframes..big time...they needed assistance with testing stuff out and shyt...so they threw me a JCL and COBOL book..told me to learn as they gave me stuff to do because it would really help them and me out...they were paying me 1000-1100 after taxes every 2 weeks...i did what i was told lol

Damn breh if someone threw me a COBOL book i'm throwing that shyt right back in their face like

 

[patscorpio]

Damn breh if someone threw me a COBOL book i'm throwing that shyt right back in their face like

those books were so boring..i used to try to kill half of my day if i had no more testing to do reading that shyt while listening to music at my desk...i almost nodded off many times haha...we all have our humble beginnings in this...but that money breh..motivated me

 

[WaveGang]

Took me a while to realise engineering maths ain't rocket science

 

[Golayitdown]

1 + 1 in any high level language = 1 line of code. Maybe 2 if you want a system print out.

1 + 1 in Assembly = like 17 lines of code

Gotta call a memory address
Load the data point "1" into that address
Call another memory address
Load the 2nd "1"
Recall the those 1 memory address
Binary add using the Operation code for addition (which changes based on the processors instruction set)
Store that value into a third memory address
Call that memory address

And then, if you want to print it out so you can actually see your answer.... well


Assembly will have you celebrating the basic shyt. I would be over there like "I just did 2x2+4 !!!!"

My roommate probably like "This nikka remedial..... "

Facts!!!!

I was like when I was taking that class. I'm glad that shyt was a 200 or 300 level class for my program, so I had already taken some "higher level" programming classes that exposed me to C++/Java and didn't require all that fukking work.

If I have my way, I'll never have to do that shyt again in life.

 

[daboywonder2002]

Orgo wasn't that bad for me tbh. In fact i found it more interesting and fun than general chem. Got As in both 1 and 2.


I agree with the other three classes you named tho. Especially genetics

Genetics was easy as hell for me. Got a B plus. The punnett square. Looking at the chromosomes. that's important to know

 

[patscorpio]

Facts!!!!

I was like when I was taking that class. I'm glad that shyt was a 200 or 300 level class for my program, so I had already taken some "higher level" programming classes that exposed me to C++/Java and didn't require all that fukking work.

If I have my way, I'll never have to do that shyt again in life.

That was a 200 level for You? It was a 100 level for me

 

[BooksnCookies]

Biology is mostly heavy memorization, it's not really much applied science compared to chem and physics.

This is where I can't agree. INTRO/gen Biology is memorization as is most INTRO chem and physics. You learn about evolution and cells just as you learn about energy levels or Newton's third law. Biology is not a one way field. In most of my advanced bio classes, I was doing applied science (i.e. synthetics, etc which often coincides with biochem or chem). Most people that do evolution or ecology, do so much math (esp the ecology) that it's not even funny. I think most people have this perception because they don't do anything other than the basic classes (computational, applied, ecological, evolution, cell, molecular, genetics, etc are all variations of biology), or most people that take the courses are pre-med and won't care about the "applied " portion.

SN: I won't lie and say that those classes came easy to me. IMO, genetics is like math with words. I'd spend like an hour on one problem doing nothing but crosses and calculating genetic distances. SMH. It paid off and I actually loved the field. Same with Orgo. Because the info was new, I spent my Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays in 3 different lectures with 3 different professors just to cross reference stuff. Might have been overkill, but all my tests were short answer and I wasn't risking it. Like most things, people give up on math and science too early, imo. Just put in work and everything else will follow. Getting the basics down made advanced courses easy as hell

 

[greatone]

question to all the stem brehs, how many other brehs did u see in your classes

by my last year it was all cac , middle easteners, a few brehetttes and me and one or two other brehs. we was always looking at each other after the exams

In my program (electrical/computer engineering) during my senior year I took class with was about 4 brehs, about 3 brehettes, 2 African brehs, and the rest was white people and a couple of Asians. Until now I didn't realize it only 4 black dudes. I remember 3 black dudes that graduated during my junior year but that was it. There were some other black women in the civil and materials engineering program I knew but it wasn't that many in that field either. Some people I knew left engineering for computer science since they didn't have to take as many math classes as engineering students do.

 

[Golayitdown]

That was a 200 level for You? It was a 100 level for me

Yep. I got an A in the class but it was just too much.

I distinctly remember saying "if I had to learn this way first, I would have changed my major"

 

[Neuromancer]

Damn breh if someone threw me a COBOL book i'm throwing that shyt right back in their face like

nikkas still using cobol?

 

[perfectblack999]

Comp E checking in here.

Sh*t was rough having dudes who been programming since they were 10 in the same class but I made it. 5 hardest years ever.

 

[greatone]

assembly i hated that language...it was a bytch to program in

I hated assembly language with a passion. I never tried so hard in a class before just to try and get a C. I bombed the first assignment. I couldn't even get it to run but I refused to drop that class because I wasn't going to take that crap again. I use to stay up sometimes until 2 am trying to get a program to run. I end up getting a B in the class but that class almost turned me off to programming.