The End
This is the end. I’m gonna stop writing this blog. I’ve said this multiple times, to my friends, to my readers, and to myself, but this time I’m truly stopping.
Burn Rate
A blog for Torch, an NYU club for CS students to foster their technical talent and future career ambitions
Latest posts
One NYU CS
NYU should merge its CS departments into one department. By keeping the two departments, NYU is diluting every single aspect of NYU Computer Science. Everything from courses to clubs to recruiting will improve if we merge the two departments.
Courant, CAS and CS: How Do They Relate?
Surprisingly, this isn’t another complaining post. Instead, let’s answer an incredibly common question: how the heck do Courant, CAS, the CS department relate to each other?
The Value of Niches
I’ve hesitated to write this post. Not because it’d be controversial or because it’d get me in trouble. But because I’m concerned that people might misconstrue or exaggerate the message.
Grades Don’t Matter
Grades don’t matter. I’ve beaten around this bush before in my prior NYU CS rants by saying that students are overly obsessed with school, that they should care less about grades. Lemme go the whole way. Grades do not matter. More specifically, they don’t matter in two ways:
UMD CS vs NYU CS, Pros and Cons: A Transfer Perspective
By Khanh Nguyen.
Learn Imperfectly
I’d like to confess something. I’ve talked about the joys of reading on this blog before. I’ve given book recommendations; I’ve discussed how various books have really helped me; basically, I’m very pro-reading about CS.
Negotiation: A Quick Primer
I love to negotiate. Some people don’t. I guess they see it as nervewracking or even rude. I find it fun. When else can you make $5,000 simply by taking a few meetings and making a few points?
Intellectual Ambition
I mentioned in my why not NYU CS post that I haven’t been impressed with NYU’s CS majors. I’d like to expand on this. I don’t want my conclusion to be simply that NYU CS majors are subpar.
Waitlisted: Solving Professor Allocation
In this episode of grumpy undergrad yells at cloud, let’s talk professor allocation.