Re: /NSSP: Alright, internet, I have a major decision to make.
Zeeb Send a noteboard - 12/01/2011 09:39:23 AM
Well mostly I'd say do what you enjoy more. It is so much easier to do the work and do it well when you enjoy it.
Whut...employers considering people with a CS major as computer nerds is bad? If you want to become a Software Engineer or whatever then, well, surely being considered a computer nerd is really helpful?
I don't really know how majors and minors work over there but I'm guessing that you can pick whatever modules from a list with more for your major and fewer for your minor? Knowing what you want to do when you escape the other end means you can choose your modules and the work you do (to whatever extent you are able) to lean more towards that. So maybe get some programming learnin from Physics and cover the process of designing, documenting, developing and implementing gubbins in CS modules you pick.
I think a lot of the time a degree is just a degree. A lot of relevant jobs over here (UK) ask for a degree in Maths, Physics, Engineering or Computer Science etc so it's more important you have the kind of thinking and crazy brain skills that go with something sciency than exactly what you learnt - you'll prob have to learn a company's way of doing things when you start a job anyway.
I'd suggest doing stuff in your spare time (if you have any) and over the summer. Get involved in open source stuff so you have some real world experience with coding and having to fit in with other people's coding and their way of doing things - coursework is very, er, isolated if that's the right word, as you don't have to worry about it fitting in with anything else as long as it works.
Even write programs for you or your family/friends where you can show that you had a set of requirements that you met...rather than just I made this hilarious thing that makes your computer asplode because I could. Although that'd be neat too - but I don't think it counts saying the requirements were computer go boom.
Showing you do it in your own time and have a real interest in it will set you aside from a load of other computer and/or physics nerds
Anyway, rambleramble. Sorry. Just finished my 2nd degree in comp sci and job hunting myself
Whut...employers considering people with a CS major as computer nerds is bad? If you want to become a Software Engineer or whatever then, well, surely being considered a computer nerd is really helpful?
I don't really know how majors and minors work over there but I'm guessing that you can pick whatever modules from a list with more for your major and fewer for your minor? Knowing what you want to do when you escape the other end means you can choose your modules and the work you do (to whatever extent you are able) to lean more towards that. So maybe get some programming learnin from Physics and cover the process of designing, documenting, developing and implementing gubbins in CS modules you pick.
I think a lot of the time a degree is just a degree. A lot of relevant jobs over here (UK) ask for a degree in Maths, Physics, Engineering or Computer Science etc so it's more important you have the kind of thinking and crazy brain skills that go with something sciency than exactly what you learnt - you'll prob have to learn a company's way of doing things when you start a job anyway.
I'd suggest doing stuff in your spare time (if you have any) and over the summer. Get involved in open source stuff so you have some real world experience with coding and having to fit in with other people's coding and their way of doing things - coursework is very, er, isolated if that's the right word, as you don't have to worry about it fitting in with anything else as long as it works.
Even write programs for you or your family/friends where you can show that you had a set of requirements that you met...rather than just I made this hilarious thing that makes your computer asplode because I could. Although that'd be neat too - but I don't think it counts saying the requirements were computer go boom.
Showing you do it in your own time and have a real interest in it will set you aside from a load of other computer and/or physics nerds
Anyway, rambleramble. Sorry. Just finished my 2nd degree in comp sci and job hunting myself
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/NSSP: Alright, internet, I have a major decision to make.
- 12/01/2011 05:25:23 AM
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Re: /NSSP: Alright, internet, I have a major decision to make.
- 12/01/2011 09:39:23 AM
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I don't understand why you would major in physics when you know you want to work in CS.
- 12/01/2011 01:56:48 PM
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Don't bother with physics, it's a waste of time for what you want to do.
- 12/01/2011 02:09:30 PM
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I work for a high tech company and we hire a lot of software engineers
- 12/01/2011 02:23:31 PM
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Physics degrees are aimed at graduate work, and minors are rare in my experience
- 12/01/2011 03:08:49 PM
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as someone who has majored in both (two separate stints at school)....
- 12/01/2011 04:03:41 PM
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Re: as someone who has majored in both (two separate stints at school)....
- 12/01/2011 04:17:16 PM
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How many physics majors do we have here not working in the field of physics? At least four.
- 13/01/2011 01:47:27 AM
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