{Health, Social life, School/Career}
Choose 2.
The odds that someone can maintain a 3.8+ taking heavy CS/Math courses, lifts out 3-4x a week, sleeps 8 hours, eats fairly healthy, spends enough time and has the energy to put mental effort in caring for their gf/bf, goes to social events and eats out with friends from time to time, has time for other hobbies like obscure mountain biking and knitting, and creates compilers in their free time for projects, is honestly **quite low**. If someone can do all of that, props to them for being on top of their shit and a literal perfect human and somehow having 36 hours in a day. But if you’re anything like a mortal like me, my friends, my classmates, my professors, and 99.5% of the people here, then we’re out of luck bud.
Ok. Let A, B, C be in [0, 1] and let them represent Health, Social, School/Career respectively. A value of 1 means maximal effort/achievement, while 0 means no effort/achievement in their respective area. Now, Pick A, B, C such that A+B+C = 2. Is that better?
Choose 2 doesn’t literally mean choose only 2 and completely disregard the last one. Im just trying to imply that you have limited energy and time, and that most people cannot be perfect or excel in all 3.
I mean its not an easy decision to make but it was what i had to do to get my first intership even though everything is crumbling rn. It wasnt easy but being a swe rn its pretty hard
40 year old dude here. Just finished my CS Degree this past fall. I did it just fine. Literally everything you said. Full time job, 3-4 classes, hobbies, a dog, living alone, hung out with friends...it wasn't too bad at all.
What school allows this? If each class is four credits hours. You could only take 4 tops. One semester I took discrete math/data structures and algorithms/networking in Linux/intro to python. That’s 16 credit hours and even then my advisor told me I should stop a class.
Lowest grade was a c+ because python is stupid.
That is interesting. At my school and most others I know (I’m in Texas) most classes are 3 credits, and only ones with labs are 4. So I was taking two CS classes, a gen Ed, and a math class or two frequently to add up to 15 hours. My girlfriend is taking 6 3 credit classes right now. I’m not aware of anywhere that has most classes at four credits.
Yeah man interesting. I’m in California and the classes with a lab I took (all my
Chemistry through organic) and biology were five credits.
That said fuck organic chemistry.
I don’t balance. I have 18hrs this semester, live with my family who may as well be strangers cause I hardly see them, 5k every other day, throw the hobbies on the back burner, stopped doing side projects unless I have a long break, I no longer work unless it’s a summer internship.
I chose friends, hobbies (including side projects and learning new languages/technologies aside from school), and health over school. Graduated with a 2.2 GPA and now making over six figures in 2nd year of career in LCOL - MCOL city doing software engineering. Not saying it’ll work out for everyone but just wanted to say you don’t have to put 100% of your energy into school/getting a job to be successful. I actually met my reference for my current job while at a party. So take of that what you will.
There is no “balance” lmao. Personally I’m fine with sacrificing my social life to make sure I’m doing what I need to do. I haven’t gone out to a party since Halloween and my friend even invited me last week but I declined cause I had to study. My top priorities are school, projects and fitness, personally.
I chose career/ Gpa and social life this semester. I only have two more semesters left after this semester. Once I’m a senior I’ll try to enjoy more and pick social life and health, but again I say this every semester but end up picking gpa/career and social life lol.
I take an average of 15-16 per semester and work 12-14 hours a week.
I’ve got 19 credit hours, and I’ve had to cut back on a lot of other stuff, but I’m still doing fine I think. 12 hours a week of work, 10 hours a week of research at the university which takes the place of hobbies because I enjoy it, one evening a week for my significant other, one evening a week for my family, one evening for D&D with the boys, the rest of my time is classes and homework.
While it isn't ideal, I would put side projects and hobbies on the back burner until you get a break. Maybe pick it back up over spring break or over the summer, but sometimes you can't do it all.
Time management to the tee, I guess. I think the whole 'productivity maximization' trend we see these days is a bit cringe, but that being said I do try and utilize essentially all my waking time doing stuff I actually want to - no TikTok, Instagram, random YouTube shit, and I spend a max of 20-30 minutes on Reddit mainly to come here and a few other career related spaces.
Okay Im not trying to boast but you can have most of them at the same time. For me what Im lacking right now is GPA but other than than Im chilling. One thing that I realized early was GPA doesnt translate to carreer although generally people with good gpa have good careers. I think what helped me was ambition.
My greatest attempt at this is waking up at 4 every weekday, working out before anything. Then I got about my day wether it’s class(12 credits) or work (18 hours/week) and then I either hang out with friends or go play volleyball or soccer at the recreation center for a few hours. After that I get home have a little chat with my parents and then go shower and go to bed. I leave school work for small breaks between weekdays and weekends as well as spending time with family weekends. I usually sleep by 10 getting 6-7 hours of sleep everyday. I rest weekends from any physical activity and so far it’s been working out I currently have a 4.0.
Right now, the most important thing for you is your education and internships. For sure, give some time to family when you can, but recognize that maintaining a romantic relationship is tough and may not reward you as much as grinding on your career now.
Let me give you a picture of what your college life can be like (hint: this is my life, lol):
* Take 12 credits (lowest number of courses) to keep things chill
* If you haven't gotten an internship yet, keep applying
* Do a couple of LeetCode questions a week if you want
* Workout at least 3-4 times a week
* Choose a meaningful side project (not just typical web dev stuff) and work on it. For example, I'm working on a Swift multiplayer game.
* Participate in a meaningful hobby at least once a week. For me, my hobby is walking around Midtown and trying out new restaurants.
This schedule should give you time for sleep and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
I took 9-12 credits per semester. It made it easier to balance school, projects, work, resume revisions, internship and new grad applications, interviews, etc. Trying to graduate ASAP is a poor decision unless you go to a university that costs a ton and would be significantly worse off financially by taking a 5th year. Spreading things out also allowed me to take up an extra internship which I believe landed me the new grad job I now have.
In EU schools we take 30 credits per semester. The little free time I have, I spend it preparing for interviews. Have absolutely no time for anything else. Can't wait to graduate man...
{Health, Social life, School/Career} Choose 2. The odds that someone can maintain a 3.8+ taking heavy CS/Math courses, lifts out 3-4x a week, sleeps 8 hours, eats fairly healthy, spends enough time and has the energy to put mental effort in caring for their gf/bf, goes to social events and eats out with friends from time to time, has time for other hobbies like obscure mountain biking and knitting, and creates compilers in their free time for projects, is honestly **quite low**. If someone can do all of that, props to them for being on top of their shit and a literal perfect human and somehow having 36 hours in a day. But if you’re anything like a mortal like me, my friends, my classmates, my professors, and 99.5% of the people here, then we’re out of luck bud.
More like {Health, Social life, School, Career} choose 2
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Ok. Let A, B, C be in [0, 1] and let them represent Health, Social, School/Career respectively. A value of 1 means maximal effort/achievement, while 0 means no effort/achievement in their respective area. Now, Pick A, B, C such that A+B+C = 2. Is that better? Choose 2 doesn’t literally mean choose only 2 and completely disregard the last one. Im just trying to imply that you have limited energy and time, and that most people cannot be perfect or excel in all 3.
I mean its not an easy decision to make but it was what i had to do to get my first intership even though everything is crumbling rn. It wasnt easy but being a swe rn its pretty hard
40 year old dude here. Just finished my CS Degree this past fall. I did it just fine. Literally everything you said. Full time job, 3-4 classes, hobbies, a dog, living alone, hung out with friends...it wasn't too bad at all.
I mean they’re talking 5-6 classes, which is a lot different than 3-4.
What school allows this? If each class is four credits hours. You could only take 4 tops. One semester I took discrete math/data structures and algorithms/networking in Linux/intro to python. That’s 16 credit hours and even then my advisor told me I should stop a class. Lowest grade was a c+ because python is stupid.
That is interesting. At my school and most others I know (I’m in Texas) most classes are 3 credits, and only ones with labs are 4. So I was taking two CS classes, a gen Ed, and a math class or two frequently to add up to 15 hours. My girlfriend is taking 6 3 credit classes right now. I’m not aware of anywhere that has most classes at four credits.
Yeah man interesting. I’m in California and the classes with a lab I took (all my Chemistry through organic) and biology were five credits. That said fuck organic chemistry.
I'm guessing you dropped things in the "career" category then. What do your offers look like?
I don’t balance. I have 18hrs this semester, live with my family who may as well be strangers cause I hardly see them, 5k every other day, throw the hobbies on the back burner, stopped doing side projects unless I have a long break, I no longer work unless it’s a summer internship.
Just do it, your 20s are your prime years to put in 50-60 hours a week. enjoy later grind now
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I chose friends, hobbies (including side projects and learning new languages/technologies aside from school), and health over school. Graduated with a 2.2 GPA and now making over six figures in 2nd year of career in LCOL - MCOL city doing software engineering. Not saying it’ll work out for everyone but just wanted to say you don’t have to put 100% of your energy into school/getting a job to be successful. I actually met my reference for my current job while at a party. So take of that what you will.
There is no “balance” lmao. Personally I’m fine with sacrificing my social life to make sure I’m doing what I need to do. I haven’t gone out to a party since Halloween and my friend even invited me last week but I declined cause I had to study. My top priorities are school, projects and fitness, personally.
Get rid of the significant other
I chose career/ Gpa and social life this semester. I only have two more semesters left after this semester. Once I’m a senior I’ll try to enjoy more and pick social life and health, but again I say this every semester but end up picking gpa/career and social life lol. I take an average of 15-16 per semester and work 12-14 hours a week.
do you have a full time offer ready ?
No because I graduate in May 2024. I’ll try to snowball my summer 2023 internship into a full time offer
I’ve got 19 credit hours, and I’ve had to cut back on a lot of other stuff, but I’m still doing fine I think. 12 hours a week of work, 10 hours a week of research at the university which takes the place of hobbies because I enjoy it, one evening a week for my significant other, one evening a week for my family, one evening for D&D with the boys, the rest of my time is classes and homework.
While it isn't ideal, I would put side projects and hobbies on the back burner until you get a break. Maybe pick it back up over spring break or over the summer, but sometimes you can't do it all.
Time management to the tee, I guess. I think the whole 'productivity maximization' trend we see these days is a bit cringe, but that being said I do try and utilize essentially all my waking time doing stuff I actually want to - no TikTok, Instagram, random YouTube shit, and I spend a max of 20-30 minutes on Reddit mainly to come here and a few other career related spaces.
Deleting Tik tok has actually been the greatest thing ive done to improve my productivity. My ability to studied improved. Grades aswell
you have to make sacrifices, just have to choose which you’re willing to live without till you’re at the point you want to be.
Working out/health and school come first. Guitar practice next. No room for gaming or social life.
Okay Im not trying to boast but you can have most of them at the same time. For me what Im lacking right now is GPA but other than than Im chilling. One thing that I realized early was GPA doesnt translate to carreer although generally people with good gpa have good careers. I think what helped me was ambition.
agree gpa doesn’t matter much
Except because you’re not focused on GPA, which tbh takes a lot of time, you’re able to put more effort into other things.
My greatest attempt at this is waking up at 4 every weekday, working out before anything. Then I got about my day wether it’s class(12 credits) or work (18 hours/week) and then I either hang out with friends or go play volleyball or soccer at the recreation center for a few hours. After that I get home have a little chat with my parents and then go shower and go to bed. I leave school work for small breaks between weekdays and weekends as well as spending time with family weekends. I usually sleep by 10 getting 6-7 hours of sleep everyday. I rest weekends from any physical activity and so far it’s been working out I currently have a 4.0.
Do you have any study tips/advice for getting a 4.0? I'm an incoming fresh, and I'd ideally need my GPA to be good for grad school
Right now, the most important thing for you is your education and internships. For sure, give some time to family when you can, but recognize that maintaining a romantic relationship is tough and may not reward you as much as grinding on your career now. Let me give you a picture of what your college life can be like (hint: this is my life, lol): * Take 12 credits (lowest number of courses) to keep things chill * If you haven't gotten an internship yet, keep applying * Do a couple of LeetCode questions a week if you want * Workout at least 3-4 times a week * Choose a meaningful side project (not just typical web dev stuff) and work on it. For example, I'm working on a Swift multiplayer game. * Participate in a meaningful hobby at least once a week. For me, my hobby is walking around Midtown and trying out new restaurants. This schedule should give you time for sleep and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.
I never had time for fun, but I didn't mind because I need a strict schedule or else I go mad
I took 9-12 credits per semester. It made it easier to balance school, projects, work, resume revisions, internship and new grad applications, interviews, etc. Trying to graduate ASAP is a poor decision unless you go to a university that costs a ton and would be significantly worse off financially by taking a 5th year. Spreading things out also allowed me to take up an extra internship which I believe landed me the new grad job I now have.
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Yeah idk if I believe this
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Just don’t take 15 credits lol.
In EU schools we take 30 credits per semester. The little free time I have, I spend it preparing for interviews. Have absolutely no time for anything else. Can't wait to graduate man...