My Honest College Advice for Computer Science Majors

Time management…I remember staying up super late to try to “study” or figure out how to code some mega proj until 5am. When really I should’ve just slept early and worked it with a fresh brain.

just realizing bro is using a chopstick as a tripod 😭 lmao

love the video! u can completely ignore the rest but here's my two cents: i think one of the hardest things about college is that four years isn't enough time to learn all that you want. i'm two years into my degree and i'll be able to take upper levels starting my second semester of junior year. i want to do game dev, vlsi, and comp arch and those are all time consuming and you need to take them one at a time to do them well. by the time you're done collecting degree requirements and prereqs, you're already a senior and there's no time left for anything else. 😭 also, you need to actually pass classes and that's the hardest part of taking a bunch of hard classes together to learn more. it's so hard to win, mate 😭😭

As someone who's going into uni for CS this fall, I just want to thank you for sharing this awesome advice! It made me reconsider a lot of things that I had originally planned (for example taking bird courses in place of courses I'd actually find interesting) or trying to do everything at the same time (school, side-projects, LeetCode, interview prep, etc...). I also really liked the emphasis on time management and making friends as I feel those are the two things that people (myself included) often overlook when it comes to college. TL;DR: Cool video, loved the advice!

College is the one place where future millionaires and billionaires will be in one central place My advice for anyone who decides to go is to make it worth it Major in STEM or really consider picking up a trade if not STEM Network, network, network. For CS students link up with other students and attempt to build a startup Find your ‘people’ there and build, dream, work, and create

As someone who's been working in software engineering for over 15 years, networking in college is the most important thing you can do. Go join the club for your major and meet friends and show that you're an asset to your classmates and peers. It is much easier to get an interview and job from a referral from one of your college friends than random job postings online.

Hey! Just finished my first year of a Maths & CS degree. I completely relate to the staying up late -> falling behind -> stay up late, cycle haha. But I think it's much easier in hindsight to say I wish I took the harder classes. I took a bunch of hard classes and that in turn decimated my social life, sleep, mental health, physical health, etc. I think one of my biggest lessons from this year was to take easier classes. Who knows, maybe later in life I'll wish I took harder classes, or maybe I'll be thankful I didn't.

LOVE LOVE LOVE your advice! They should make this video a mandatory watch for every incoming freshman.

Just completed my cs degree and heavily agree on side projects and being passionate about what you’re working on. You’re more likely to be more motivated if you work on something you’re interested in. One piece of advice I have for new undergrads is to start a project based on what you learn from your introductory courses and optimize it as you continue through other courses. This can show your foundation and how you first thought things through versus how that’s changed when you took another course. This will give you a lot to talk about in interviews

This is the best advice I’ve ever had for majoring CS. I hope old me can find this advice.

Dude, you sound like a very mature person! you've built character, on top of a sound technical and engineering background. Congrats! I don't know where you are in your career, but you are certainly going to have a great one! no matter what you're doing right now (take it from an older CS professor). Best of luck in whatever you do.

berkeley cs undergrad here! i rarely comment on videos, but i just wanted to let you know how valuable, relevant, and powerful your advice was. thank you! subscribed! :)

Commenting for the algorithm!! Really great vid

thank you for this video!!! I just graduated from highschool and this video is what helped me the most so far to get an idea about college life realistically. I like how realistic you are and straight forward!! and the video itself is pretty well made!! Thanks Sayhyun!!

I'm going back to college to do Electrical Engineering in my ealry 20's. I want to learn the foundation of technology that is beneficial for me later in AI/ML . EE is the heart of technology and EECS strongly overlaps each other. My small advice is CS, EE are hard, you'll feel overwhelmed. Math is important, you will love math once you know how math is close to our lifes. Just because I hated math since little. I got my GED last year, currently in community college.

Advice to this guy. Game development is a dead end. Long hours, lousy money, and user bosses. Steer clear. It's the worst subspecialty of computer science.

Loved this! It honestly couldn't have come at a better time for me, since, fingers crossed, I'm finishing uni december of next year. I feel like I've wasted my early years (mainly due to the pandemic but also impostor syndrome seeing how there's classmates that are actual monsters because of how much they know and o) but I feel like I'm finally kinda getting things back on track. One of the things that have become more difficult to me than usual (part of ADHD I guess) is studying for classes that I really don't like (like accounting and a Java/C# project that's being more frustrating than anything lol) and having side projects and things I'd like to learn more on my mind. At least I found out that I want to specialise on cybersec and I've been trying to grind that as much as I can so I guess that's nice :D

This video definitely helped me out alot as an upcoming junior in high school. I’m absolutely terrified to go to college, and plan to do a dual degree in some Biology-related major & Data Science (or CS) so I know I’ll have to work 10X harder if I want to graduate.

Save all your course materials for after-graduation review and foundation building.

it becomes harder and harder to make friends as you progress in life or when you're out of school because you're either an introverted person, or because you never really developed these skills... you were just around kids that would talk to you all the time in school... if you set an extroverted to a new town where they have to start fresh, they're making friends EASILY :)