going on an extended vacation where
should we travel to Morocco in Africa
all right done deal actually traveling
is one of the few things that I'm not
doing there's a lot going on that I've
sprinkled throughout some of these
videos in the past like this is going to
be one of the last few videos in this
office over the next about thinking
about two to three weeks
Maya and I are gonna be gone out of this
house into a new house and I try to
share as much as possible with y'all I
kind of feel like I have two different
lives I have my YouTube software
engineering life which is my full-time
job plus YouTube my part-time job if you
will then I have the rest of my life
that I like the fishing the going out on
the boat the dog a lot of other things
that are going on I've always floated
with the idea of either starting a whole
other channel just so I can kind of post
more of non-software development stuff
over there or if I want to just start
working on integrating a lot of
different aspects of my life into this
channel let me know what you think in
the comments below
and I don't care one way or another I'm
just gonna try to figure that out but
that's not why most y'all clicked on
this video you're trying to hear about
my regrets as a computer science student
if you don't know last May so May of
2018 I graduated from ODU with science
degree and in this video we're gonna go
over a few things quite a few things
that I felt like I should have done
better that I've regret not doing better
and things that I would do if I had to
do it all over again and I also want to
talk about a few things that I don't
regret things that I did and
retrospectively looking at it I did
right now I'm gonna be the first to say
that there are more things that I did
wrong then I did right but I figured out
you know kind of try to balance out the
video a little bit and I know I
specified computer science in the title
is very well could be my regrets as a
college student but I wanted to specify
computer science because computer
science is a hard degree to obtain I
mean you have to put in a lot of work if
my major back in college it was
incredibly simple or just overall easy
not much problem-solving not much
involved work then I probably wouldn't
have these regrets so let's get into
them first and foremost it is treating
college like high school and high
school I didn't have any homework if I
did I got it done in study block or in
class or it was very very miniscule and
in high school I didn't study I didn't
feel like I needed to and I seemed to
pass the classes just fine so I didn't
do homework and I didn't study I went to
class I did my work that needed to get
done in class and when I went home I
went home I kind of like clocked out of
work if you will and in college it
doesn't really work that way while high
school you go for let's say seven eight
hours a day and then maybe you have one
to two hours of homework at home for
college you go to class for one to two
hours a day and then you have seven to
eight hours of homework at home it
completely flipped everything around
where everything in high school you
could do in class your teachers were
there to teach you everything while
college you needed to be doing
everything on your own sure you had the
resources of your teacher they just kind
of go over things and you have to figure
it out yourself at least that's how it
was in computer science it's like it's a
lot easier to write a paper in class or
do a math worksheet in class whatever
maybe calc one doesn't matter then it is
to write an involved program in class
with a language that you need to Google
every other thing that needs to get done
in that program that's definitely that
was definitely a big one I also
regretted not completely understanding
the the aspect of computer science prior
to signing up for computer science
degree and attending the computer
science classes and all honestly I
thought it was more like a software
development degree where I was going to
go in I was going to learn how to code
and that was basically like that was the
focus and sure I take electives here and
there to make sure I'm a well-rounded
student but I thought most of my
computer science classes were going to
be programming coding but ba ba but it
was a lot of theory a lot of math a lot
more work and a lot different work than
I previously thought and that was my own
problem I didn't do enough research
going into it I was just naive one thing
I don't regret because I remember very
vividly my early years of college
something that helped me get through my
college was when I signed up for Angeles
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early years of computer science just
dreaming about one day maybe I can get
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potential to get 3 to 5 percent equity
and make $80,000 a year and work
remotely
I just remember scrolling through all of
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I did simply because it helps me get
through to the next step if I ever felt
if I ever had like you know the impostor
syndrome or just kind of felt like I
wasn't good enough
I just remembered of where I wanted to
be I was scroll through that and then I
would work in order to hopefully one day
get there now we're gonna get a bit more
generic this can go for all college
students my next regret is neglecting
office hours something you got to
understand while you have you know your
class 1 to 2 hours a day per class and
then you have you have your homework
that you need to get done when you do
your homework or your projects or
whatever the heck you want to call it
and you face a problem especially in
computer science and you're trying to
figure out a problem Stack Overflow
whatever else your search engine your
internet will show you you need to use
your office hours when you've exhausted
all resources if you can't figure
something out go to your nearest not
advisor but your professor for that
class for that project so they can help
guide you through it make sure you have
a decent understanding of what your
problem is
you want to talk to them about the
solutions that you've tried and
sometimes you'll figure it out yourself
like the rubber duckie method if I were
to you know talk to this globe right
here try to describe my particular
problem to this globe
I can maybe figure it out because I'm
trying to formulate words in order to
describe the problem at hand now that
may not happen and if that doesn't
happen that's where your professor will
come into play and say well maybe you
got to do XY and Z and that will help
you get over that hump and on to the
next problem basically so always use
those office hours wisely because they
are incredibly valuable you're paying
for it you're paying a lot of money to
go to college regardless of what degree
you have that money pays for a lot of
different things a lot of which is the
curriculum the professor's teaching you
the stuff and then your professors
office hours just imagine how much money
are wasting by not using those office
hours now you call something a regret
when you still do it to this day like I
regret procrastinating so much in school
but yet even in my own life on
particulars I still procrastinate quite
a bit I've gotten better at it it's a
it's a process but in school
procrastinating was the worst like you
would be down to a couple days left or
maybe just the night before you have to
turn something in and you get stuck on a
bug or an error especially if you're
trying to write some type of program for
class and you can't go to office hours
your professor probably won't be
responding to emails and if they are how
many other people procrastinated just
like you until the last night to ask
professor via email about the problems
all emailing your professor trying to
figure out the problems while your
professors they don't have much time
they may be trying to respond to emails
at 11:00 p.m. when your thing is due at
11:59 p.m. but who knows if they're
going to get around to you it's a lot
better in terms of your grades and in
terms of how much you'll learn if you
work little by little on these projects
that you have two weeks to complete if
you start off on it on the second or
third day in which it's assigned or even
the night of then you're able to use
those office hours like I suggested in
the preview
regret so just make sure you leave
yourself enough time don't procrastinate
don't procrastinate this is me talking
to myself because like I said and I want
to leave this on a positive note was
something that I felt like I did right
and that is getting in on internships
early like I could have maybe done
earlier but I think it was the summer
after my sophomore year where I got my
first internship computer science
internship and then that following fall
I had an internship and then the next
summer I had an internship and then that
last year my senior year I just kind of
did all the work I need to get done so I
could graduate so if you're going to
college for anything especially computer
science try to get in on internships
early don't worry about not good enough
render like they don't expect much out
of you
a lot of the work you're going to be
doing is typical internship work
something that someone from from a
computer science degree all the way down
to a communications degree you're gonna
be doing the typical intern work like
Excel spreadsheets building powerpoints
basically anything Microsoft Office you
could be rewiring a whole entire data
center which that's just pulling out
plugs and plugging them back in and
using new power strips and what-have-you
where your company's going to be sending
you over to Chicago for documenting a
manual process and which needs to be
automated but that manual process occurs
from 1:00 a.m. to roughly 10:00 a.m.
that was another one of mine or you
could actually get a coding internship
and that could be that would be pretty
cool too just don't be worried they know
you're an intern your student they don't
expect the world out of you just be
willing to do the work and ask questions
when you run into a problem and that's
it those are my regrets as a computer
science student
and sprinkle it in a few positive things
that I think I did right I know I'm
going to think of something as soon as I
hit that publish button oh um and I
should include that in the video I
should include that literally I've been
adding to this list over the past few
days ever since I came up with the idea
for this video and I know I'm gonna have
so many other regrets for non regrets
that I had as a computer science student
so in order to fill that void if you all
have anything similar to what I laid out
in this video leave those down in the
comment below comment section below
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