Other People’s Responses to the fact that I am a Computer Science Major
Other People’s Responses to the fact that I am a Computer Science Major
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Mostly ones and zeroes…. that’s pretty funny
btw, I plan to me a computer science major too ^___^
Oh damn! typo -___- i plan to ‘be’ a comp. sci major
Typical question I dread “Can you find me a good laptop that for under $1000?”
“They are all good, you cheap bastard”
The correct response is always “Sure, but I’ll need $500 upfront and $500 after we find you a good one”
Win!
What did you want them to say, “Oh, God! That’s so cool!” Get over it, jerk, and enjoy your life in Tech Support.
bravo!
You really dont understand what CS majors do. We arent the guys on the phone telling you why your computer is broken, we are the people who write the programs that you use. Firefox, Microsoft Word, WIndows, Mac OSx, thats what cs majors do.
Correction, that’s what you expect to do, but the reality hits hard when you realize that those are a dime a dozen in India (which companies will gleefully outsource to), and you really need to know the difference between a PCL Driver, PS Driver, and host based in order to get a job in something remotely related to Computer Science.
No, you are wrong. A CS major writes software, at least at entry level positions. There happen to be a few that go into Tech support, just as there are Psych majors that flip burgers.
The reason Indian programmers are contracted is because there is a SHORTAGE of cs graduates. I know this because I graduated with a CS major, and became a programmer, as did 90 % of the other CS graduates I know. Any other fields have those kinds of numbers in a recession?
And people don’t give IT enough respect. Trying to maintain a large network (hundreds of workstations, plenty of severs, routers, firewalls, etc) is not easy.
Plus dealing with all the user error that everyone swears is an issue with the computer and not them screwing something up.
Haha we call that an ID: 10-T error otherwise known as IDIOT or IBCAK (Idiot between chair and keyboard) error… Honestly the number of times you ask someone to close the window, and waiting five minutes while they litterally CLOSE all the windows i the house FFS.
Yes i did CS major, and yes i did work IT support but i also programmed on a contract basis and to top it off i went for a MCITP/CCNA/A+ certification so spend most days fixing computers rather than putting the ole CS degree to work.
Oh I understand what you WANT to do, but I also understand what you WILL BE DOING after college. I worked in computers and the entire tech support staff had CS degrees and outnumbered the Engineering department three to one. Go cry, emo star wars fat kid.
That last comment just made my day!
Men, is really clear that your anger comes from your own frustrated life. You should try to be less transparent…
AHH HA, butthurt loser is butthurt. “I worked in computers” means he had a job where he needed to use Word, Power Point and Excel once in a while and was inept at doing anything else. He was such a problem to the IT staff that they made fun of him, to his face about his stupidity. I’m guessing that you’ve been told you have a pebcak error many times, and believes it has something to do with his computer.
He then declared his eternal hatred for these people on the internet.
TL;DR: Loser got bullied by nerds, posts QQ reply.
inb4 attempt to counter-troll.
Wow..at lease one that admits they program not repair..if only I could get our HR manager, IT manager,union rep to understand that CS majors are not techs..yet mininum requirement for a tech in our organization is CS
That’s ignorant on so many levels that I’m not even bothering to give you counter-arguments.
I agree.
That was an extremely ignorant comment. What you’d rather do, not doing a major course at all? Many people are interested on it, and you’ll only actually end up on tech support if your university sucks.
There’s also the research area… You’re just a retard, probably the sort of idiot who goes around listening to Rap.
Funny cause it’s true. When I was in University taking comp. sci, I had a summer job working in an office. The stupid secretary would ask me to “program” WordPerfect on her computer. (We’re talking install here, not even writing macros).
When installing, she asked me “did you learn to do this in your university classes?” Ugh!
haha, in dentistry it’s “Bleach my teeth!” “Free dental care for me!”
Oh yes, I just know that too well, even without being a CS major (yet). Still, everyone asks me “Can u fix my computer?”. I really am close to getting one of those “No, I will NOT fix you computer” T-Shirts on ThinkGeek, really.
Make me a chick!
please
I can make you a chick… Just need a sharp object.
Nah, you’ll also need an IQ injection.
Oh come on you didn’t get the Weird Science reference?
Or are you upset that I objectified women by saying chick?
No, got the WS reference. Sorry, I always go to PK before here and it tends to put me in a bad mood. I think I’ll switch it out.
No, you want an IT major. I’m a Computer Scientist, I don’t actually touch computers. In fact I spend most of my time in front of a whiteboard. The only difference between me and a Mathematician is that the problems I solve usually have real-world meaning.
Mathematicians solve problems that have “real-world meaning” too. Don’t be so ignorant.
For certain values of “real world”
This is true. People think CS is the same as IT, they’re just DUMB.
Computer science is actual science, ellaborating and researching solutions to problems, studying the efficiency of algorithms and the computability of problems.
It’s really hard to actually make people understand the concept of computing as a science, I think we both should give up on that D:.
Ah, a graph to which I can relate! Comes with the career though, just like fixing cars or being a doctor. if you want to be left alone though, get a degree in philosophy or English. No one is going to ask you to fix their “being”, I’d wager.
Philosophy majors become bartenders… and everyone asks bartenders to fix their being. But yeah, those majoring in Computers will get far more requests.
I was an English major–and I got a lot of requests to write papers, help w/ people’s grammar homework, and proofread stuff.
Well, to be fair there’s not much else you CAN do as an English major.
There’s not much else you can do with dentistry except fix teeth, either. To be fair.
So, can you? My hard drive crashed when I dropped my globe on the computer.
There will be a day that tech support people will domain the world!
I am pretty sure there are more than 1 billion Indians already, so they are getting up there.
But is theworld.com not already a domain?
Hehe, I am an Industrial Designer and people tells me: “Oh, so you invent things”, “Oh, graphic design, I have a [insert annoying chain of relatives to reach a distant cousin] that draws all day”, or “Sorry? What is that? [to put it an the most educated manner I can think of]“.
My wife, on the other hand, is a Doctor, and the people’s response is something like “Oh, I’ve been having this pain in my left hand finger for a month, what could it be?” or “My [insert again here a long chain of relatives] has this [insert disturbing description here]“. Now, when she is with the hospital uniform on the street and people asks, she says she’s a biochemist”.
My dad was a biochemist; when I was in elementary school and asked my mom what Daddy did (for some class project), I thought they were making it up.
I work in IT. My parents always want me to fix stuff that is working properly already.
“Wow, that sounds hard”
haha, I am surprised you hear that……
I’m not, people are terrified of computers for some reason.
I had a guy asking me to program & email him a virus so he can send it to his ex-girlfriend & it would crash her pc because she had just dumped him & he wanted to get back at her
So did you? I mean, did you at least give him a quote?
lol, no of course not!
I had people I had just met 5 minutes before, who I had no wish of ever meeting again, somehow discover that I was studying IT, and ask me to fix their computer for free. I know the bottom of IT is geek squad level stuff, i.e. fix a computer half the time and then sell you a part/computer you don’t need that is 3x the normal price anywhere else, but my plan was working on networks, not be friends’ (saying that word loosely) free computer fixer-uper. This is why I changed my major from IT to Business Management (not really, but its a helpful benefit). Now instead of “Oh, so can you tell me why my computer doesn’t turn on, despite the fact we are 100 miles away from it?”, I get “your kind are the devil”. I think the last statement is more fitting of me.
Just tell them your rates are $1000/day plus expenses.
When I was studying CS and got stupid requests to fix computers, I quoted them (what I thought at the time) was a ridiculously high hourly rate ($50/hour), and they went for it. $50/hour for a starving student means not starving any more.
Yeah, those GeekSquad type services are surprisingly expensive (especially for businesses on contract), so even as a free-lance part-time IT admin you can find businesses that will jump on the chance to employ you at $30-$50+/hr if you can prove to them that you know what you are doing.
This is especially true for very small businesses that don’t think they need a full-time admin, and don’t want to pay $500+/mo to GeekSquad for some HS kid who they will have to explain their entire network/desktop/software/server setup to every time he comes in (because it will be a different kid every time…).
i can fix any computer in two words
Format & Linux
Right, that sure does wonders for a bad hard drive…
Maybe not the formatting part, but hey, Live disks are available.
But they still don’t fix the problem. I’ve seen bad RAM before. Not often, but it happens. All the live CDs in the world won’t replace a bad stick of RAM.
Any computer? Go try that on a mainframe. Oh, wait, we run Linux there as well.
And we had virtual machines 30 years before VMWare was even a glint in somebody’s brain.
CS and IT folks — learn your computer history. You’ll make some amazing discoveries.
Duh… We know that, but we have to use what our customers ask for, no matter how many better options there are.
OMFG noone would tell you congrats?!?!
And then the Lord said the Geeks shall inherit the earth. And Mina smiled because she loves her some geeks. ^_^
“There are 10 kinds of people in this world; those who understand binary and those who don’t…”
I don’t get it.
epic, just coughed up my breakfast
10 = 2. Get it now? Guess where you fit in?
Yeah, 1s and 0s are obviously beyond me
I guess I’m just of those people that love nerds but know they will never ever understand them
This is funny and true so long as you don’t think you “deserve” any other response. If you do CS or IT, you deserve exactly those responses, especially the “can you fix my compiuter” one because you should have expected it all along.
Oh, what a stupid thing to say. None of us deserve to be pestered by near strangers about fixing their computers simply because of what we chose to study at university. Sure, we expect people to ask, but we don’t deserve that any more than med students would deserve having to perform free medical procedures on everyone they meet.
Haha my computer science teacher caught me on graphjam and this was on there, he agreed heartily ^^
He never went to the staff room during lunch break again.
Yay, I’m a CS major, too!
I actually haven’t got the “can you fix my computer?” response too much. I’ve heard “Wow, cool. I’m really bad with computers” (or some variation) a lot more.
My other half has an MsC in computer science (working on a PhD) and she can NOT fix your computer.
I, on the other hand, have an MA in English Language and CAN fix your computer.
Life works in mysterious ways.
There’s much more to computing science than just computers… Yeah, I have a lot of CS teachers that have no idea how to actually get things done with a real computer, all they know of is algorithms and data structures and more algorithms and more data structures and so on.
I’m working on getting a PhD in either math or Paleontology, haven’t decided yet… But aren’t algorethisims in algebra?
This graph is truth.
And there is one quote in this context, which should always be quoted:
“Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.”
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsger_W._Dijkstra
I agree whole heartedly!
RIP Dijkstra.
This is so true. I was just asked if I could fix someone’s computer last week. I should just print this on my business card.
So true. These days, I quote the minimum price it costs to hire me: $35/hr. That shuts people up.
My response to people telling me they’re a CS major: “Want to work on a game mod with me?” Their response: “No, im to busy working at a tech support job I hate and not using my skills I learned at university.”
Which is sad D:
Heh heh… you think that’s bad…
“Oh, you’re a vet student? Can you fix my ______ ?” No, not only is that illegal as I’m not a registered vet, but I’m a first-year. Would you ask a first year med student to do anything at all to you?
Crazy people.
I used to get “welp, that’s where the money is” all the time. Because ya know, I do this for the money, not because I’m passionate about it.
Not so much anymore, though.
I’m a CS major and I definitely get the “I can’t go on the internet” or “I can’t find my downloaded file” or “I can’t open this file type” and “can you fix it” questions.
Since I’m an undergrad, I’d just refer them to a grad student who lived in the same building.
These reactions only include what they say to your face. You should hear what we say once your back is turned.
Actually, Hexadecimal is much more useful than Binary when it comes to programming (or most computer work, for that matter). Leave binary to the processor, the lowest you should have to go is Assembly (which is just translating machine code, written in hex, into letters).
Actually the lowest you would have to get as a REAL computer scientist is pseudocode. See Dijkstra.
Lol, That always happens to me.
This doesn’t just happen to comp sci~ I’m a neurosci major..
i basically just get 10% “wow, that sounds hard” and 90% “so you’re a doctor? can you diagnose me?”
There are only 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
If I had a nickle…
I get this all the time too, I’m not even a Computer major, I just spend a lot of time around them and happen to know more than everyone else in my family, so everyone always assumes I can fix it for them lol.