<p>Zzz you need to pay for it :(? I’m currently in a program for next year. Going to try to do well so they can offer me a summer internship!</p>
<p>Wait so the fee is just for the online course (which is paid by FA like normal summer sessions right)?</p>
<p>Oh right probably. I don’t have financial aid, so I’m wasting $120,000 for college. isn’t that great : [ but im sure you can contact a few big companies and see if they’ll let u intern?</p>
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<p>Not at all. I never listed my GPA on any resume I submitted, and nobody ever asked for it either. Of the places I applied for, slightly more than half of them invited me for an interview.</p>
<p>BTW, these are all paid jobs or internships. I don’t do work for free. If a high school dropout can get paid for work, a person with some college education should definitely get paid at least that amount.</p>
<p>^Yeah exactly. I would never do an internship for free either. First of all I probably couldn’t afford to do an internship for free since I’d have to pay for housing, food, and transportation (and my parents are middle class Americans who couldn’t afford to pay for such luxury for me), and secondly I’m 100% against companies using students for free labor by exploiting the fact that they want to write “internship” on their resume.</p>
<p>If you work hard, study hard, and keep applying I’m sure you’ll find an internship. Good Luck! :)</p>
<p>That’s fantastic because i’ve been interning for free all this time! last summer, the guy said he just didn’t think he needed an intern so he couldn’t pay me but he was a real douc.he bag so he kind of fired me haha so that was good. at least i can still put it on my resume so f him. and then this summer, i only wanted the internship for few weeks and i dont think a paying internship place would only want me around for like a 3 weeks. but yes…it is a little annoying cus i stay for 3-5 hours doing their b.tch work. like he wants me to signature 300 papers tmw (after i typed them all out).</p>
<p>^Lol</p>
<p>Thanks for the advice excelblue! I never knew not putting your GPA would actually be ok lol. If you don’t mind me asking, what is your major? Thanks again!!! This gives me some hope regarding my crappy 1st semester :(!</p>
<p>Yeah actually the guy who helped make our resumes didn’t put my college gpa (for obvious reasons hah) but he put my high school gpa on there. I was only asked for the transcript by this one lady which was weird but she cared more about her interns and them succeeding so she didn’t want it to get in the way of school. never heard baack from herrr…</p>
<p>Yeah I never put my GPA on my resume, but I did put down all the relevant technical classes I’ve taken the the letter grade I got next to the classes. Funny thing is I believe psychologically:</p>
<p>Class1 A-
Class2 B+
Class3 B</p>
<p>looks better than GPA: 3.3 (Even though it’s the same)</p>
<p>Also nobody ever asked me for my GPA either. </p>
<p>As Professor Garcia once said: “It’s what you say, not your GPA!”</p>
<p>You’re right, it does look better than a 3.3 haha! I think most people don’t realize a B is like a whole 1.0 point less than an A. Are you a CS major Diivio? Think I saw Garcia under CS staff list for some reason lol!</p>
<p>^I am an EECS major and he was my CS61C Professor last fall. Before I took EE20N with Babak in the Spring, Garcia was my favorite lecturer (Harvey was second)</p>
<p>just for further encouragement for those who arent fairing well at Cal, i nearly always scored one or two standard deviations below the mean on tests (mechanical engineering major). but i loved Cal despite my poor academic performance - it never really affected me at all (emotionally nor psychologically). i met a bunch of great friends and learned how to be independent and survive the rigorous academics, which to me are the most important things. throughout my undegrad, i knew that if i graduated with at least a 2.0 gpa, at least i’ll get out of here with a college degree. so just work harder and study with classmates - you’ll get lots of insight studying in groups!
when i graduated, all the desirable companies always asked for min 3.0 gpa, so i applied like crazy to the lesser known companies. lo behold, i finally landed a position in a very niche company that only hires based on connection and/or if your already working for that industry. guess what i found out? those concepts that i couldn’t understand at Cal showed up again, but now that i’m outside of that academic environment, i realized that i’m able to pick up/relearn those concepts at a much faster pace and now i’m applying them. i guess an alternate route i should’ve considered was to take some time off Cal and work for a bit. i find that kinda funny. my diagnosis is that either i’m a late bloomer (my mind developed after college) or that academics is just not for me. lol
anyway, stick to it! a Cal degree is awesome! one day when you walk across that stage at graduation, give yourself a pat on the back cuz it ain’t no walk in the park to graduate from Cal</p>
<p>Well I’m glad some CC veterans opened up on this thread. I’ve always thought everyone here are geniuses with perfect GPA ha!</p>