Ask HN: So, Who's Graduating From School This Spring?

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by samratjp • 16 years ago

6 11 16 years ago

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Fellow HN'ers,

Anyone graduating this Spring? What are your plans?

(Extra credit if you can explain in a tweetable, digestable size :-)

jiaaro• 16 years ago

I'm graduating with a BA in Economics.

Plans: I'll be writing software... like I have for the past 2 years ;)

adam-_-• 16 years ago

Graduating in June. Perl developer for an ecommerce company in London.

stjarnljuset• 16 years ago

working on enterprise web applications

shadowz• 16 years ago

Graduating in June from high school. Going into computer science.

ehsanul2• 16 years ago

BS in Mechanical Engineering here, with 10 days to graduation. Then I'm going to trying out everything: applying for jobs, trying to get a research assistantship for grad school (hopefully RoMeLa), starting freelancing, and working on a web app which will hopefully be startup material. Let's just see what sticks.

mikeknoop2• 16 years ago

I have 2 semesters left, but I'm in the same boat as you. Mechanical Engineering undergraduate, looking at a graduate program, already doing occasional freelance development, and a strong CS background even though I opted against that as a degree.

Is this common? I haven't run into anyone in my department that is doing something similar, and often get asked why I did not simply get a CS degree.

ehsanul2• 16 years ago

I get asked the same all the time, and my standard answer is that I would hate CS if I had to take classes in it, doing tedious homework problems in C++.

I don't think it's too common, though I did get surprised once by a classmate of mine turning out to be a freelance website designer.

By the way, how do you get clients besides friends/family? Having a good portfolio is an obvious way, but have yet to build that up for myself.

kobs• 16 years ago

BS in CS. Graduated about a week ago from UF. Going to work for a bookstore.

devotion• 16 years ago

About to leave University (BSc Software Engineering. 3 exams left, all this month).

I have a job secured in the security field and have a personal wiki full of projects that I want to do on the side. One of which is in the planning stages as I type this.

Looking forward to see what the next 12 months hold.

Ask HN: So, Who's Graduating From School This Spring?

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