<p>@Cayton Thanks for the quick response!</p>
<p>Edit: Would you happen to know how to avoid the Higher One service charge when making the housing payment? ($45 charge) @Cayton</p>
<p>@goodjobdaveman, when you select the type of payment, opt for the electronic checking for no ridiculous fee.</p>
<p>What @Zalrons said.</p>
<p>Hey @Zalrons, what orientation session/date did you get? Mine is orientation 205/August 15th.</p>
<p>@cayton, hey man! I lucked out and got the first one in July. It’s approaching quickly…</p>
<p>Has anyone else activated their free lynda account? My friend told me about it! It is really cool!</p>
<p>All UCLA students get one! </p>
<p>so do we need to submit a picture of ourselves onto our housing application by July 1? If we don’t what happens?</p>
<p>Is it too late to change my SIR to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo? Maybe because they are not a part of the UC system, they will let me change my SIR</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>You seem pretty indecisive. Constantly considering a change of major, and to many different majors at that, as well as considering going to UCSD, and now, Cal Poly SLO.</p>
<p>What’s going on?</p>
<p>@Cayton I’m a very indecisive person in general. I takes me like 30 minutes to pick out a candy bar. I’m really reluctant to go to UCLA because I am worried that employers will look down on my Linguistics and Computer Science degree because it is not a full CS degree. I am reluctant to go to UCSD because it has a lame social atmosphere and I would be there for three years. </p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>Employers won’t give a ■■■■ that your degree isn’t exclusively in computer science. They’ll care more about your experience in coding and the like.</p>
<p>Don’t worry about that.</p>
<p>As I recall the CalPoly deadline was a month earlier than UC. </p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>Employers won’t care that you didn’t take the physics sequence unless you’re wanting to do hardware and they won’t care if you don’t have advanced math or stats unless you’re interested in theory or machine learning. They want you to have a good portfolio and experience. CS and Ling is not an inferior degree for dev, it appealed to me because I have no interest in hardware but have a strong interest in theory and natural language processing. </p>
<p>Honestly, through your posts I have a feeling that you don’t have a realistic grasp on what CS is and what industry is like. It seems like you just want to fall into a career that will pay you x amount of dollars, and to you CS seems like an easy way to do that. It’s not. If I did not love it and find the product of the work rewarding I would find it impossible to get through 15-30 hr homework assignments or 80 hr projects. This is why most students are weeded out early on. I would research more, read people’s personal experiences, and look up the specific requirements for jobs or internships you want. They’re pretty transparent and will straight up say “Degree in this, x amount of years working with python/java/etc.” If you start now you can have 3 years of experience with something by the time you graduate. It’s an awesome major, imo, but it’s not like a magical ticket that you exchange for money.</p>
<p>@credulitykills </p>
<p>“It seems like you just want to fall into a career that will pay you x amount of dollars, and to you CS seems like an easy way to do that.”</p>
<p>You’re right about that, but it is not the only reason I wanted to major in CS. I do find it interesting, but it is not my number one choice of major. My number one choice of major would leave me unemployed. </p>
<p>No major guarantees employment or unemployment.</p>
<p>Lol, nobody cares about what you’re degree says nowadays when it comes to CS. It is all about your ability. </p>
<p>@CSB111 </p>
<p>Yep. Surprisingly, lots of people in my major, philosophy, are good at coding. It likely has to do with those logic classes that philosophy majors <em>and</em> many computer science majors have to take.</p>
<p>Lots of parallels between logic and coding. :O</p>
<p>@CollegeDropout1 </p>
<p>The Linguistics and Computer Science degree sounds flexible and as others have said it really depends on your ability to code. You can always double major with your number one major if you still feel the need to pursue it. </p>
<p>@Cayton </p>
<p>Does that mean you’ll be coding also? :)>- </p>
<p>@ocnative </p>
<p>I’m not sure I have the aptitude for it, nor do I have any experience in it. I guess I could pick up a “coding for dummies” book and try to learn on my own. I don’t have much passion for doing that either, but maybe I’ll develop it if/when I expose myself to that stuff. I didn’t have a passion for philosophy until I took my first class in it at my CC. :)</p>
<p>Maybe it won’t be <em>that</em> hard…a lot of good programmers don’t even have degrees related to computer science or STEM in general, and quite a few don’t have degrees at all. </p>
<p>I guess I should explore this option for a couple of reasons:</p>
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<li><p>My limited knowledge of the nature of coding and computer science in general is that it’s very…logical. One needs a very strong grasp of logic and/or math to do well in it.</p></li>
<li><p>Symbolic logic is a kind of course that pretty much all philosophy majors and many computer science/math majors are required to take. In my symbolic logic class last fall semester, there were a few computer science majors. I got an A in this class and found it pretty easy. I encountered little difficulty in grasping the nature of the logical systems that our class covered. We basically learned very simple languages that are used in philosophy and computer science to make logical statements and stuff. This was pretty easy to me.</p></li>
<li><p>I’m sure coding languages are much harder to learn, but if I didn’t struggle much in a symbolic logic class, then <em>maybe</em> I could do alright in coding. It’s a big if, though.</p></li>
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<p><em>Sigh</em>, I don’t know. I’ll figure it out.</p>
<p>I will say this. I hate math, never good at it, but taught myself enough HTML back in the day to come to the conclusion that it actually had an enjoyable side to it. If you’re logical, you actually might find coding interesting. I kind of think I would enjoy it if I’d ever ventured beyond HTML. I also think it helps if you’re somewhat OCD, which I assume all the regulars are on this site… I mean, let’s face it. 
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