BF2S Forums College discussion thread

Shocking wrote:

Everyone knows he's full of shit, he knows he's full of shit, yet he just keeps on going. It may have been a little funny at first but now it's just downright annoying.

Forum would be better off banning uzique if anyone. Nyte at least doesn't go around starting arguments and insulting everyone all day every day. Never encountered such a miserable shit in my entire life.

I always really enjoyed materials science

Jay wrote:

I always really enjoyed materials science

I enjoyed it but was terrible at it.  I think I nearly failed it in the first year (2.7 GPA I think).  Once I switched over to CompEng, things went uphill but my CGPA still suffered because 2.7 drags it down ALOT.

Luckily marks only matter for your PEY job.  It hardly matters afterwards unless you go to grad school I think (and is also dependent on what grad program you take, MBA programs only require a good GMAT score from what I've been told).

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Wait you went to UofT but now you're in London, England?  Or did I assume wrong?

I'm not sure how employers would even checks marks overseas (they would need to know the relative scoring within that region).  But yeah, I worked at ATI Inc. for my PEY internship and simply went back to ATI (now AMD) after I finished school in May 2007.

And I've been here ever since.  Been wanting to get out of it to another company (Qualcomm) but working here for 5.5 years, I have quite a few incentives that prevent me from leaving.

Nyte wrote:

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Wait you went to UofT but now you're in London, England?  Or did I assume wrong?

I'm not sure how employers would even checks marks overseas (they would need to know the relative scoring within that region).  But yeah, I worked at ATI Inc. for my PEY internship and simply went back to ATI (now AMD) after I finished school in May 2007.

And I've been here ever since.  Been wanting to get out of it to another company (Qualcomm) but working here for 5.5 years, I have quite a few incentives that prevent me from leaving.

jay went to a minor nowheresville college in america. a navy college (jay joined the military so the state would give him an education)

(jay is now an anti big government libertarian)

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Nyte wrote:

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Wait you went to UofT but now you're in London, England?  Or did I assume wrong?

I'm not sure how employers would even checks marks overseas (they would need to know the relative scoring within that region).  But yeah, I worked at ATI Inc. for my PEY internship and simply went back to ATI (now AMD) after I finished school in May 2007.

And I've been here ever since.  Been wanting to get out of it to another company (Qualcomm) but working here for 5.5 years, I have quite a few incentives that prevent me from leaving.

jay went to a minor nowheresville college in america. a navy college (jay joined the military so the state would give him an education)

(jay is now an anti big government libertarian)

I'd rather have Jay answer the question.

Cybargs wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Samsung wants hard copies of your diploma (down to high school level) and your GPA. My company ran a background check to veeify my degree. Not sure about GPA though. Speak for yourself.

That's because samsung is from best korea where grades mean everything. shits fucking nuts.

LG doesn't do that, and LG is from best Korea too.  So try again plz.

Nyte wrote:

Uzique The Lesser wrote:

Nyte wrote:

Wait you went to UofT but now you're in London, England?  Or did I assume wrong?

I'm not sure how employers would even checks marks overseas (they would need to know the relative scoring within that region).  But yeah, I worked at ATI Inc. for my PEY internship and simply went back to ATI (now AMD) after I finished school in May 2007.

And I've been here ever since.  Been wanting to get out of it to another company (Qualcomm) but working here for 5.5 years, I have quite a few incentives that prevent me from leaving.

jay went to a minor nowheresville college in america. a navy college (jay joined the military so the state would give him an education)

(jay is now an anti big government libertarian)

I'd rather have Jay answer the question.

lol jay didn't go to UofT. he definitely doesn't live in london. he works in NYC. he went to a maritime college.

Nyte wrote:

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Wait you went to UofT but now you're in London, England?  Or did I assume wrong?

I'm not sure how employers would even checks marks overseas (they would need to know the relative scoring within that region).  But yeah, I worked at ATI Inc. for my PEY internship and simply went back to ATI (now AMD) after I finished school in May 2007.

And I've been here ever since.  Been wanting to get out of it to another company (Qualcomm) but working here for 5.5 years, I have quite a few incentives that prevent me from leaving.

No, I'm a New Yorker, my location is kind of a joke.

I design HVAC systems for buildings in the NYC region.

I'd be surprised if a liberal arts major in sociology would be doing any sort of computer engineering at google or microsoft.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Jay wrote:

My first employer didn't even ask for my transcripts or my GPA. No one gives a fuck what you did in school unless you're 22 years old and have no job/life experience for them to look at

Samsung wants hard copies of your diploma (down to high school level) and your GPA. My company ran a background check to veeify my degree. Not sure about GPA though. Speak for yourself.

Well, I'm different and I work in a different industry. I was a 30 year old with a resume chock full of military stuff when I graduated. I wasn't applying at highly competitive tech firms who have a million more applicants than jobs available.

I don't know where I'd find out average GPAs and such for my university. I only needed to maintain a 3.0 to keep my scholarships, which was never even close to being a problem, but several people in my school were pissed at the honors at graduation. We used to be the College of Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences, but a few years ago it got merged with a bunch of other shit into the huge "College of Health and Human Sciences" that included stuff like psychology, hospitality and tourism management. As a result, honors were determined based on GPAs of the whole college, so people who took classes to the extent of "put the meat in a refrigerator" drove the requirements way beyond people in hard science. I think the cutoff for second class honors was like 3.8.