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A comment on Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford, MIT, etc?.

Re:Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford... by simonsarris on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:29AM (#2820205)
People aren't going to wonder whether or not the CS program at your university is a joke if they haven't heard of the place. They just won't think about it.

They'll move on to wondering what you have done during your school years and beyond.

What do you have to show for your education? Just the piece of paper? Did you make anything while in school? Help any professors? Write any articles? Start any clubs? Contribute to open source projects?

Tangible evidence of being good is always better than intangible evidence. A degree is neat, but real-things-done is far better.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford... by dstein on Saturday July 30, 2011 @07:38PM (#2827114) 

  People aren't going to wonder whether or not the CS
  program at your university is a joke
Newfoundland is considered a joke to rest of the country. He'll probably receive less discrimination in the US than in Canada.
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Re:Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford... by Brewer on Friday July 29, 2011 @12:30AM (#2820207)
I've been working with a CS professor for about a month and a half now as part of a work-study program. Do I get street cred for this?
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Re:Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford... by eric-hu on Friday July 29, 2011 @06:17AM (#2821053)
I would say it depends on what you get done. That seems to be the theme of these responses.

Hope that motivates you to take advantage of your situation, since you're already in a working relationship with a talented person.

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Re:Ask HN: Am I at a disadvantage for not attending Stanford... by brg on Friday July 29, 2011 @01:37AM (#2820367)
Not unless you change the world. You will learn a lot and I'm sure it will be valuable, but don't be at all surprised when it is discounted in the views of others.
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