Where should we travel to Morocco?

In Africa?

All right, Done deal.

Actually, traveling is one of the few things that I'm not doing.

There's a lot going on that I've sprinkled throughout some of these videos in the past.

Like this is going to be one of the last few videos in this office over the next, uh, thinking about 2 to 3 weeks, mine are gonna be gone out of this house into a new house, and I try to share as much as possible with y'all.

I kind of feel like I have two different lives.

I have my YouTube sulfur engineering life, which is my full time job, plus YouTube, my part time job, if you will.

Then I have the rest of my life that I like the fishing to going on the boat, the dog, a lot of other things that are going on.

I've always flirted with the idea of either starting a whole other channel just so I can kind of post Maura of non saw for development stuff over there.

If I want to just start working on integrating Ah, lot of different aspects of my life into this channel.

Let me know what you think in the comments below.

Uh and I don't care one way or another, I'm just gonna try to figure that out.

But that's not why most you'll clicked on this video.

You're trying to hear about my regrets as a computer science student.

If you don't know last May, so made to has an 18.

I graduated from ODA youth computer science degree.

And in this video, we're gonna go over a few things.

Quite a few things that I felt like I should have done better that I regret not doing better and things that I would do if I had to do it all over again.

Now, I also want to talk about a few things that I don't regret.

Things that I did and retrospectively looking at it, I did.

Right now I'm gonna be the first to say that there are more things that I did wrong.

Then I did right.

But I figured out, you know, kind of dry to balance out the video a little bit.

And I know I specified computer science in the title is very well could be my regrets as a college student, But I want to specify computer science because computer sciences ah, hard agreed to obtain.

I mean, you have to put in a lot of work.

If my major back in college was incredibly simpler, just overall easy, not much problem solving, not much involved work then I probably wouldn't have these regrets, so let's get into them.

First and foremost, it is treating college like high school and high school.

I didn't have any homework.

If I did, I got it done in study block or in class, or it was very, very minuscule.

And in high school I didn't study.

I didn't feel like I needed to, and I seem to pass.

The class is just fine, so I didn't do homework and I didn't study.

I went to class.

I did my work that I need to get done in class, and when I went home, I went home.

I kind of like clocked out of work, if you will, and in college it doesn't really work that way.

Well, high school you go for, let's say, 78 hours a day, and then maybe you have 1 to 2 hours of homework at home for college.

You go to class for 1 to 2 hours a day, and then you have 7 to 8 hours of homework at home.

It completely flipped everything around where everything in high school you could do in class.

Your teachers were there to teach you everything while college.

You needed to be doing everything on your own.

Sure you had.

The resource is of your teacher.

They just kind of go over things, and you have to figure it out yourself.

At least that's how it was in computer science.

It's a lot easier to write a paper in class or do a math worksheet in class.

Whatever.

Maybe Couch one doesn't matter.

Then it is to write an involved program in class with a language that you need to Google every other thing that needs to get done in that program.

That's definitely that was definitely a big one.

I also regretted not completely understanding the aspect of computer science prior to signing up for computer science degree and attending the computer science classes and all, honestly, I thought it was more like a software development degree where I was going to go in.

I was gonna learn how to code, and that was basically that was the focus.

And sure, I take electives here and there to make sure I might well rounded student.

But I thought most my computer science classes were going to be programming coding.

But But but But it was a lot of theory, a lot of math, a lot Maur work and a lot different work than I previously thought.

That was my own problem.

I didn't do enough research going into it.

I was just knife.

One thing I don't regret, because I remember very vividly my early years of college, something that helped me get through my college was when I signed up for angel lists.

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I have a potential to get 3 to 5% equity and make $80,000 a year and work remotely.

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If I ever felt if I ever had, like, you know, the Impostor syndrome or just kind of felt like I wasn't good enough, I just remembered of where I wanted to be.

I was scroll through that and then I would work in orderto hopefully one day.

Get there.

Now we're going to get a bit more generic.

This could go for all college students.

My next regret is neglecting office hours.

Something you gotta understand while you have, You know your class 1 to 2 hours a day per class, and then you have you have your homework that you need to get done when you do your homework or your projects or whatever the heck you want to call it.

And you face a problem, especially in computer science, and you're trying to figure out of problems that overflow.

Whatever else your search engine, your Internet will show you, you need to use your office hours when you've exhausted all resource.

If you can't figure something out, go to your not adviser.

But you're professor for that class for that project so they can help guide you through it.

Make sure you have a decent understanding of what your problem is.

You want to talk to them about the solutions that you've tried, and sometimes you'll figure it out yourself, like the rubber ducky method.

If I were to, you know, talk to this globe right here.

I tried to describe my particular problem to this globe.

I could maybe figure it out because I'm trying to formulate words in order to describe the problem at hand.

Now that may not happen.

And if that doesn't happen, that's where your professor will come into play and say, Well, maybe you gotta do X, Y and Z, and that'll help you get over that hump and onto the next problem.

Basically.

So always use those office hours wisely because they are incredibly valuable.

You're paying for it.

You're paying a lot of money to go to college, regardless of what degree you have.

That money pays for a lot of different things, a lot of which is the curriculum.

The professor's teaching you the stuff and then your professor's office hours.

Just imagine how much money you're wasting by not using those office hours.

Now you call something you regret when you still do it to this day, like I regret procrastinating so much in school.

But yet, even in my own life, on particular things, I still procrastinate quite a bit.

I've gotten better at it.

It's a process.

But in school, procrastinating was the worst.

Like you would be down to a couple days left, or maybe just the night before You have to turn something in and you get stuck on a bug or an error, especially if you're trying to write some type of program for class and you can't go to office hours.

Your professor probably won't be responding to emails.

And if they are, how many other people procrastinated just like you until the last night to ask Professor via E mail about the problems, All e mailing your professor trying to figure out the problems while your professor they don't have much time.

They may be trying to respond to e mails at 11 p.m. When your thing is due at 11 59 PM but who knows if they're going to get around to you?

It's a lot better in terms of your grades and in terms of how much you will learn if you work little by little on these projects that you have two weeks to complete.

If you start off on it on the second or third day in which its assigned or even the night of.

Then you're able to use those office hours like I suggested in the previous of regret.

So just make sure you leave yourself enough time.

Don't procrastinate.

Don't procrastinate.

This is me talking to myself because, like I said, I want to leave this on a positive note with something that I felt like I did right and that is getting in on internships early like I could have maybe done earlier.

But I think it was the summer after my sophomore year where I got my first internship computer science internship and then that following fall I had an internship, and then the next summer I had an internship, and then that last year, my senior year, I just kind of did all the work I need to get done so I could graduate.

So if you're going to college for anything, especially computer science, try to get in on internships early.

Don't worry about not good enough friends like they don't expect much out of you.

Lot of the work you're going to be doing is typical internship work, something that someone from a from a computer science degree, all the way down to a communications you're gonna be doing the typical intern work like Excel spreadsheets, building power points, basically anything Microsoft office.

You could be rewiring a whole entire data center, which that's just pulling out plugs and putting them back in and use the new power strips.

And what have you or your company's going to be sitting you over to Chicago for documenting a manual process in which needs to be automated.

But that manual process occurs from 1 a.m. to roughly 10 a.m. That was another one of mine, or you could actually get a coding internship.

And that could be that would be pretty cool to Just don't be worried.

They know you're an intern.

Your student.

They don't expect the world out of you.

Just be willing to do the work and ask questions when you run into a problem.

And that's it.

Those air my regrets as a computer science student and Sprinkle it in a few positive things that I think I did right.

I know.

I'm gonna think of something as soon as I hit that publish button on Ah, man, I should include that in the video.

I should have included that literally.

I've been adding to this list over the past few days, ever since I came up with the idea for this video.

And no one have so many other regrets for non regrets that I had as computer science student.

So in order to fill that void, if you'll have anything similar to what I laid out in this video, leave those down in the comment below.

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