I just got accepted into the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia. I am planning to major in Computer Science.
My question is, how hard are the classes for somebody who wants to major in Comp Sci at Columbia? Will I be pulling all-nighters most of the time?
Advice from any current undergraduates in the Fu Foundation majoring in Computer Science would be really helpful and greatly appreciated.
bump-- i’m interested in how hard computer science is in columbia college
Hey, not a SEAS kid, but am CC and have taken some classes in CS/have many friends in SEAS CS. It’s hard. You’re expected to accomplish a level of work that you probably aren’t prepared for yet. But it’s totally doable, if you handle yourself well. Many people never go to their CS lectures, for example, but that doesn’t mean you can’t just skip learning whatever you were supposed to in the lecture—because you’ll have a huge project or problem set due every two weeks and if you begin the night before, you’re gonna die.
Pulling all nighters is all about you, believe it or not. You’ll probably have to at some point, but some people just do it because that’s how they like to complete their work. Or they prefer Butler overnight rather than during the day. Or they sleep during the day.