In my opinion, a bad internship only occurs if you did not learn something new from the internship. I’ve been pretty lucky at the company’s I’ve interned at and the mentors I got, but I can’t say the same for some of my friends. Unfortunately, poorly executed internships are not
Once you’ve scheduled the interview, the real show has begun. Solving the problem is a must, but interviews are also a chance for interviewers to understand someone’s thought process and logical reasoning skills. But also, someone’s success could depend on how good at communicating and receptive they are to suggestions.
Resumes are confusing. Most students don’t have much experience going into internships, and somehow you need to fill a page up with qualifications. Given how easy it is to apply online, it is hard to fathom how many resumes each recruiter will review every recruiting cycle. Honestly, I don’t know
Note: I have never directly interviewed anyone for an internship, but alas, here are my thoughts :). Most coding challenges are pattern recognition tasks that take some time to learn. In my opinion, it is similar to the standardized testing that students use to apply to colleges. As a corollary
Internships can create a toxic environment. Not where people backstab each other for jobs or grades per se, but rather when people view getting an internship as an ‘absolute must,’ and those who don’t have one are less ‘skilled,’ ‘talented,’ or ‘proficient’ in computer science. That drives me crazy (and
So you’ve decided to MEng (or have you?). Awesome! I wish you the best on your journey. As someone who attempted to MEng too late, I wish someone had told me earlier how to be on track. This post mainly applies to people looking to graduate early with their MEng
Have you ever had the desire to journal but quit because it was too much effort? Amanda Deng and I always had this issue and attempted to find ways to do so. We tried bullet journaling, diaries (paper and digital), and iPhone apps. However, we could never get into a
During my four years at MIT, I would enjoy occasionally giving tours to prospective MIT students. It reminded me of when I was in their shoes, looking at potential colleges back in high school. My parents dragged me across the country and I honestly felt disinterested on tours when the
So you want to do USACO? Make sure you actually like it and aren’t doing it because you want it on your college resume! (See previous article) I’m going to assume that you understand USACO well enough and competed in some competitions/looked at some problems already. But here are my suggestions
I 100% admit that I don’t know any programming language 100%. I have to look at a cheat sheet every single time I program. Especially for students in high school like me, I don’t really see the point in memorizing all the functions and syntax structures for all the languages you
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