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Thinking of transferring after finishing up my 4th year at a CC in California, switched my major 2 years ago from business admin to CS, because I have a passion for music and wanted to get into creating music software.

Current 2.72 transfer GPA and am unsure of how my future in CS will play out depending on the university I transfer into.

The schools I’m looking at are:

Fresno State; 40 min away from my hometown, heard the CS program is lackluster. Would be the cheapest option. Not sure there are many opportunities in the valley.

Sacramento State; seems to have more opportunities and a better CS program. Not too expensive.

CSU East Bay; proximity to the Bay, but also with Bay prices.

Any other solid CS programs that I should give a shot considering my GPA?

All-in-all, I know this field is tough and I don’t exactly have ideal grades, but I’m willing to see it through. Thanks in advance!

Giving up on CS any good career ideas to pivot to.

Interests and skills:

• Computers
• Science

I had applied to an intern opening in Google last year, and got a response for a phone screening round from them. I had already secured an internship by then so I rejected them on good terms (I know I was stupid).

Now 1 year later, I applied to their new graduate opening 2 months ago, yet I got no response. I'm thinking of trying cold mailing them, especially replying in the same email thread as the recruiter sent me for the internship screening round. Or sending a seperate email.

Does cold mailing work for companies like Google and will it be professional?

Through a family friend who is very very high up in the Navy, I’ve gotten a couple hits on DoD contract jobs. Today a recruiter for one of these contractors reached out to me to schedule an interview with the hiring manager for a software engineering position, and I want to go in well prepared.

I have experience as a developer, and a portfolio of design/development projects I’ve either helmed or been an influential part of.

What should I do to best prepare? Should I have a project or two already running on local servers to show the person? Should I expect a leetcode test? Should I brush up on any datastructures and algorithms?

Anything helps! I’m open to any advice, I need this job BADLY 😅

I am a junior in college with 2x faang swe intern experiences so prestige is not really my main goal. My main goal is leveraging career growth, fast promos (hopefully reaching EM very soon), and overall learning a lot of useful skills to propel my career. WLB isn’t everything for me but that might change if more responsibilities come into my life. Which would be the better internship and hopefully new grad offer?

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So, I basically got a really low score in my midterm exam which is worth 35% of Calculus (I)'s final grade. I'm also on a scholarship which needs me to maintain my GPA to be > 3.5 or raw score of > 80.

I currently have two options:

1. Withdraw from the class and retake it next year. I've also talked about this option to my professor but he doesn't agree with this and wants me to continue taking the class.
2. Continue the class and score at least a 70-80 on my final exam (which I'm honestly not that confident of) to end up getting a C-/C/C+ which is basically passing grade. Or I can score higher than that to reach a B.

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I'm very concerned with this class because it is a 4-credit course and if I fail it, my entire GPA will drop. Let's say all my other classes get at least an A, then having a C in this course will get me a GPA of 3.6ish. Is this a good GPA for CS majors? If I withdraw from Calculus, I might have a gpa of 4-4.2 depending on my other subjects.

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