I am a CS and Maths student at the University of Toronto, currently going through the same issues you did: feeling I am not good enough for CS, struggling in Theory of Computation, etc. Unfortunately I don't have any friends who major in CS, which most probably was what caused this problem to continue, but now that I have a much more open mind, I'm truly very grateful. I can't thank you enough for how much this video has helped me! :)

really wish more people who struggled with CS shared about their experiences, people who are vocal about it then tell you they’re getting like Bs so you’re just like ok cool me and my F are just gonna not say a thing. SO I HOPE THIS HELPS ANY OF Y’ALL OUT THERE STRUGGLIN 🥲 but if u are a genius and acing everything that’s cool too you are still loved ☺️

This is such a reassuring video :') Thank you for sharing this because like you said, not enough people talk about these struggles.

This really resonated with me as I went through the same thoughts and experiences you had studying cs and transitioning out of software engineering! I'm currently still plowing through my junior year with a love hate relationship with cs but I'm hoping it gets better 🥲 I also really enjoy the sit down and chat videos!

As a senior, I feel the same way. I just want to finish my CS degree and get out! I’m tired of being a student.

I’m a CS major and I just finished my first semester of freshman year. It was very intense and I know it’ll only get harder. This makes me feel better, knowing that others are struggling too but are still getting good grades and still ending up with a job they like while using their knowledge from CS. Thank you for this video!! ❤

oh boy I’m currently in your situation where I’ve gotten As in my lower division CS and feels good about it. I’m ready for this to go downhill soon haha

thanks for sharing ev :') love the honesty !

wow i really needed this. i'm currently a freshman majoring in IT, but i have to take an introduction to c class along with cs and engineering majors and i am struggling with grades and trying to keep up since i am not the best programmer. the support i had in the beginning of the semester i don't have anymore since they don't go to class or message me unfortunately. the only person i still talk to is super smart and gets A's on every assignment, so it's difficult to try and not compare my journey to theirs. i like your mindset that bad grades are ok as long as you keep trying and learning, and i'll definitely keep that in mind as i move through college. great video :)

this is really amazing. much love from houston, tx !

First time seeing your channel, as someone who going into their second year into CS, your talk with failure something I already developed long ago in high school( was among the average). Some even doubted I could even go to university and it happened, so when I come across failure it affects me for few days but after that I just brush it off. I recently took a course on Data structures and algorithms this past spring and seeing BTS question give me memories XD, but never heard splay tree until now( which reminds me that every DS@Algorithms class is different to what they expose you to). Since I was doing this in a fast-paced spring class, the labs were rough and some times I couldn't finished them on time(cried some nights XD), there were times when I felt like I was very dumb for not getting how make certain algorithms work, or how to write a specific recursion function. My grades starting slipping and I was going to drop out to try again but some of my good friends told me just push through it and pass the class. I do believe I learnt quite alot but chose a bad time frame to do the course(never knew how fast time flew by before exams). Passed the class but failed the final, I tend to feel like this degree isn't for me but good friends and grounding yourself to your goals is what pushes me to go on.

I'm glad I've graduated, my experience in CS was about the same

This video really means so much too me. ❤ I actually don’t feel alone now. I’m in my junior year

To anyone who sees this comment. I just started college and just began to learn Java. We are learning the basics and I’m already feeling far behind and we are learning everything through the textbook. I feel like I’m not cut out to make it. Has anyone else started coding in college and still made it?!

I just graduated recently, for me I love diving deep into topics like the math and deep down logic behind something like the assembly memory kinda thing that you showed, but I just straight up hating UI/UX kinda stuff which is big part of the job market right now... Idk I just don't feel I'm prepared enough to do what I want to do and be able to avoid what I don't wanna do. Maybe only time will tell after I get my first job. I'm thinking of continuing this mad journey to get myself a master's degree in ML but yeah dk if that's gonna be the ideal route (uni is a scam in terms of price)... hope all the best for all of us...

Thank you for sharing this evelyn, greetings from Vancouver.

It’s so refreshing to hear that there are other jobs out there in the computer science world other than a software engineer

Thank you! These CS classes and all the math I have to take as requirements are tough and just cause you do bad in some doesn’t mean your not cut out for the degree.

I completely feel you. I took CS61A this spring as a freshman and I did so bad on the first midterm that I got discouraged and dropped it. However, I don’t want to give up, so I’m taking it now in the summer. Hopefully it goes well! I really want to major in cs and go into product as well!!!

thanks for this

Wow ! Currently going through this right now ! Programming two midterm averages ~ 38% out of 100+ students! Majority of the class failed.

I'm literally crying while watching this video. Life of an EECS transfer student is so miserable especially surrounded by all kinds of talented people. Thank you for sharing this! You have no idea how much this video supported me for this moment!

I really appreciate your message. Really helps👍

Respected, I really love how you explained each years. I plan to opt CS degree next year, but im still uncertain considering AI and getting my jobs replaced. As an Asian, its either be a doctor or an engineer so I went with CS but i was still feeling uneasy. Thank you for this, it has reassured me and I hope im making my right decision by taking a CS degree

Brazilian here, studied at public university UNESP. I am "anti-college", the disciplines dont prepare you to market at all, and the professors are horrible and dont teach the classes, so you will be a "self taught" with or withou a college. I just dont see any sense in colleges.

What I learned majoring in Electrical engineering, in the actual major classes, it comes down to you vs the class average for exams

This video helped me! I plan on majoring in CS in the fall. I dont appear to be fascinated in it according to my parents. I am just hesitant to mess up my future because I never took a computer class in high school.

❤️ Thank-you, #evelynshares. #BeenThereSis ❤️

love that thumbnail lol you know what you are doing

Thanks you this video really help out a lot ❤ because I start in fall and I didn’t take any class during my high school year just how interesting after graduating not good a math but I really want to give it a tried what should I start learning to get ready

I am currently in high school and I am looking to get into CS engineering..You've really done a great job explaining.. But i am not sure if I should take it coz I am no prodigy in math and dont have a great level of abstract reasoning(found out doing tests online with patterns and stuff..hehe) Hence i am not sure if I should get into this especially since i didn't take CS in high school..would you recommend taking CS considering future options as well?

When I was a CS Major in the 80s in the MS Program CompSci DePaul U, you better get a lot of 100 percents on your tests if you wanted an A. Grade Inflation did not exist.

Summary: it makes you cry!

i am i n year on and this is the moment i realised project managememnt is what i want to do its what im good at.. watching this video was exactly what i needed to see cause i just failed a quiz the other day and cried so bad.. I wanted to give up

Do you think taking Econ 1 as a freshman fall would be a bad idea. My schedule would look like Math 1a, CS10, COLWRIT R4A, and Econ 1

Hey, I'm currently choosing between going the L&S CS route at Berkeley and declared CS at Georgia Tech and UCLA. The main reason I'm not too keen on Berkeley is because I've heard it's really hard to declare CS, and it's only going to get progressively harder because they want to limit the number of L&S CS students. What do you recommend I choose? Is declaring CS manageable at Berkeley or should I go the safer route?

I think at other universities like Cal State ones, a 37% on exam that the class averages 50% on is a C-.

Thin im going to get a D in my CS302 class, really sad but i messed up taking algorithms and the hardest class my school offers in CS at the same time. will not do that again

Hello Evelyn, I need make some questions for you(sorry English) I actually, work in TI(I'm Software Engineer at here in Brazil), but, I want do CS I have 19 years old I can still working(44h week) when I do CS or you think that is a problem for me? (Again, sorry my poor English)

Watching your experience i think i could do it too

I know the feeling.😢

Yeah, thank you, I know you did this for me haha. But in order to be a PM, can I minor in CS and major in Business. Or just majoring in Business is Okay?

Go Bears!!!

Does fund crises have any impact on eecs course at UC Berkeley?

bro this is not true for normal colleges 💀. I go to PennState, had 27 kids start out in my intro to algo class and ended with 9. They barely curve here and at the end you’re basically at God at CS topics. Every switches majors from CS within the 3rd year 😭

uh oh, I think I am in the sophomore phase lol. I am determined though, I am really enjoying it so far

For me my toughest class was Algorithm Analysis. It was the known upper level weed out class at the VCU CS department. I dropped out of the class 4 weeks in and retook it the next semester. That was also the same semester I began work on my Computer Engineering minor. It wasn't the hardest class that semester for two reasons. The CE class was harder and the professor for Algorithm Analysis that semester had actual industry experience. The CE professor also had over 30 years of industry experience and he made his class interesting and engaging. Professors with actual industry experience actually make college classes so much better despite the difficulty.

I am on my final year of bachelor of CS at Baku State University and i can state that such subjects like Probability theory and mathematical statistics, Theory of Computation, Calculus, Network, Linear algebra, Analytic geometry, Programming technology, Differential equations, Operating Systems, Optimization, Database, Coding theory, Dynamic programming, Information security, Discrete Systems are probably the easiest subjects to learn and even -9 months old (not born yet) child can learn all of these!!!

Im currently earning my Bachelor of computer science at Colorado technical university

Another reason why you should learn what you love and not what gains

In college, grades are on a curve. Tests are made intentionally hard so they can determine who the top students are.

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I can't get an internship tho because i don't have 60% of the course complete. And my coordinator threatened me that he wouldn't allow any internships if i got bad grades. SO yaeh, it's not the end of the world if you get good grades, except it is, for me, who's gonna end up JOBLESS because i can't get an internship! HORAAAY

CS is hard, that’s why it’s fun

I'm a junior doing intro cs 😭

Hmmm.. Seems workload has decreased significantly. The third course, cs30 was the weed-out class. I still remember, the project was to write an OS in assembly. This is the whole shebang: multi-tasking scheduler, I/O, file system, etc. The class started with maybe 120 kids. Maybe 50 stayed to the end. To make the final turn in, I went into the lab Friday night and didn’t come back out till Sunday evening. It was brutal. And you know what, the later upper division courses really weren’t any easier or less demanding. Fundamentally, if you don’t innately love the material - you won’t make it.

Imagine beeing allowed to get an F. We have to get at least 5/10 in every lab, test etc. If you fail any of the graded work you need to retake the course the next year. At least we have retakes but a bullshit work with retake is still bullshit.

Struggling in discrete math and theory of computation 😢

Do they even give Compiler Design any more....that course will kick your ass.

I got 40 in a midterm and I dropped the class, in the end, any one got above 30 got a B in the course ☺️ so bad I had to take the class again

Them: biggest class on campus Us: smallest class on campus

I went from watching a video about failing medical school to watching computer science... I need to go to sleep lmao

me who has little to non support system going through CS 🙃

It's all fine until you're literally hanging on by a thread of being kicked out of school for falling below a certain gpa.

How was CS 70?

Gets Fs in classes, still gets a internship. cs is such a joke

I have a 4.0 and can't get an internship, I think I might be cooked lmao

at the end of the day haha

Are you serious?? my child was 1th grade in high school last year. Yes, he is gifted. He took CS 400 senior (AI/Pattern Recognition) level in college. 2nd assignment, he did a 2000 lines phyton program for the Bayesian A/B analysis on one weekend about 23 hours. He kicked out his college senior teammate because that guy was so bad in everything. YOU GOT TO BE PASSIONATE ABOUT SOLVING MATH PROBLEMS TO ENJOY CS.

You could make someone a nice wife.