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allison
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Seeing on some other posts I wanted to rant about my uni’s computer science community.

Some background: This is a small uni, not like a community college definitely a little bigger. Located somewhere in WV. There is 2-4 girls in every CS class I have had and at least 27-30 guys.

The reason why I mention this is because there is no sense of team work at all. When it comes to exams or projects I take the initiative and make either quizlets (being freaking nice here) share them or take times after school in the library to work on projects. If I have a solution I will share it, I will try to help you in your problem. If I know how to do it of course.

The real issue is all those CS experts that already fixed or finished their programs, the ones on the top of the class. Is as if the moment I ask something related to the project I am already dumb for not have figured it out on my own.

There is the typical CS student that just tries and gives up or just gives up without trying and the other kind of CS student that does that. Doesn’t help anybody else, wants to be on the top all the time.

What I am trying to say here is that it just feels like a competition all the time. (I consider myself in between this two types of students cause I wasn’t born a genius but I do try my ass off on projects) however, I feel like guys see me every new semester in a CS class and think “oh wow how is she still here? Wait did she pass?”

All I say is “yeah I fucking did, with a C or B but here”. So I don’t know, first rant posted πŸ‘πŸ½πŸ™†πŸ½‍♀️

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  • 6
    The tryhard students that are already good programmers piss me off.

    Congratulations! You were able to learn before getting to college. You want a fucking cookie? You're not any better than I am just because you were able to take CS classes in high school and learn.

    These people are probably active members of SO. Fucking cunts.
  • 5
    Welcome to the madhouse err devRant.

    It's the same for me at my senior year at college. Everybody just expects you to do the work yourself without any kind of teamwork. I feel your pain.
  • 3
    @starrynights89 I will say it's not too bad here.

    About 3 or 4 upperclassmen (I believe appointed/nominated by professors) host tutoring Mon-Thurs. I'd go about once a week and just chill in the room in case I had issues while writing some code.

    Sometimes you got help, sometimes you didn't. Just depends on how many needing help was there.

    A lot of the time, like 3 or 4 other classmates were there and we'd all sit together and compare what we have. Never really befriended them because I could tell outside of programming, we'd have absolutely nothing in common. But we'd always work together. Hopefully that doesn't change these next few years.
  • 2
    @starrynights89 @Stuxnet thanks for relieving my painπŸ˜ͺ
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    @octothorpe 10/10 way to be a cunt.
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    @octothorpe Good job changing the subject from the fact you're being a fucking cunt. Fuck off.
  • 2
    To be clear: I'd consider myself as a tryhard student. I applied a bit too late to uni and used the time to collect some working experience, so I'd say that's my excuse. I just want to finish this as good as possible.

    When it comes to group work, I completely see your point. There should be a sense of teamwork and everyone should help each other. And if this means I have to do a crash course in C# over 3 nights for them, thats fine with me, everyone learns differently.

    But what pisses me personally the fuck off is when one of those pseudo-intelligent fucktards came up with some completely overengineered solution, "asking for team work", telling me I did it wrong and not listening to me. Your typical SO member essentially.

    Just to tell you how _a_ tryhard feels about this. Not all of them might think so.
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