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Re:The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by ranci on Sunday March 23, 2014 @12:46AM (#7452169)
What major?
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Re:The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by hmsimha on Sunday March 23, 2014 @09:20AM (#7453204)
Computer Science
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Re:The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by ranci on Sunday March 23, 2014 @04:05PM (#7454865)
What are you doing now and where do you live? I'm just curious. I am studying CS right now.
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Re:The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage by hmsimha on Sunday March 23, 2014 @09:04PM (#7456076)
I'm living in Portland, OR now, though I'm about to move to Canada. I graduated from a school in Memphis, TN. Right now I'm taking a little break, but for most of the last year I've been reading about different programming languages and frameworks, doing a part-time internship using Ruby on Rails, and basically developing my skill-set to (hopefully) make myself a more desirable candidate for entry-level positions.

If you're reading hacker news, you're already probably doing better on that front than I was during my entire undergrad. I'd highly recommend getting an internship and building a personal project before you graduate too, as I believe my failure to do both of those things (in addition to a sub-3.0 GPA) were the factors that have prevented me from getting a job thus far.

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