I would think internships/work experience have more weight than GPA just because
Work experience alone is good
GPA alone doesn’t really have any weight except for when it comes to scholarships
But when u combine high gpa and work experience, that’s where the magic happens
I don’t agree. The problem is that work experience/internships cannot be weighed easily. There’s no way for the guy looking at your resume to know what your work experience/internship is worth, and they’re not going to spend time researching it. That’s also why work experience/internships at prestigious companies within your field are much more valuable.
Grades are an easy way to see whether the applicant really does try to accomplish things and is smart. It is assumed that having a high GPA means you cared about your education/time in college and is smart and prepared.
Things obviously change once you’re working in the field and develop 3-5+ years of experience and connections. At that point your grades don’t matter (unless you went to an Ivy league school or similarly highly ranked school, that will benefit you for life) because you now have a bunch of accomplishments you can write down on your resume.
This reminds me though- you mentioned earlier that there are certificates that you can get online? Those can be useful, but you need to sift through them well. A lot of online certificates and such end up being traps, and you need to learn whether people in the field actually care about those and the institution through which you got them.
Your student advisor/career advisor or equivalent should be able to give you better input than I can on this. They should have an idea of what people are looking for in a fresh college grad.
Yep, definitely depends on the field.
I recall my brother telling me that some CS folks get internships at one of the big tech companies and they’re almost expected to join once they graduate. My group (in EE) had an intern over the summer and people were joking about seeing him once he graduated.
I think my point stands though- If you have poor grades then you’ll probably not be able to get the most prestigious internship, and so you’ll be that dude with poor grades and lackluster internships who will need to compete against the dudes with good grades and internship experience at Google in the job market.
It really just ends up being that, in some fields, people really like eating the icing on the cake and want it to be extra tasty.
Yo!!! I had my first student org event today. It went great!!!
Just run them under some water. Doesn’t take much to thaw a steak.
Hol up 80%
Of one rep max
Wtf
Idk what my one rep max is
I’ll try to ball park the weight
It’s a typo: use 80% of your 10rm.
Hey Pwn, is it bad that I’ve been strict pressing for beginner and up to now?
Strict press is a part of the program. You strict press some weeks and push press others. It’s all written out.
Hey Pwn what does the push press build?
I’ll admit I’ve been doing all strict. I avoided push press for ego purposes. I still live with the thought that push press was cheating and it takes away shoulder strength.
It builds the everything. It’s a full body exercise.
I need 3 sets of 11 right now to get my reps
Let’s go shoulders LETS GO!!!
Deep Water Intermediate
Week 5
Day 18
Strict Press
135 lbs x 9
(Because I thought I was doing 80% of one rm)
110 lbs x 20
110 lbs x 14
110 lbs x 13
110 lbs x 11
110 lbs x 11
110 lbs x 11
110 lbs x 11
Barbell Curls
5 x 10 with 80 lbs
60 sec plank - 20 sit ups - 3 sets no rest
(To be done at dorm)
Uhhh…
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Killer presses man. Super jealous ngl.
Thanks Cstan
You gotta run Deep Water man.
You will get super strong.
Maybe one day. Just enjoying doing my own thing right now.
Oh boy im cooking steak today let’s see how this goes
It tastes alright.
I don’t think they were all cooked evenly.
I think 2 of them are well done. And one of them is uhhh well idk. Medium something.
The one that is medium something is the juiciest lol.
It’s why I prefer rare
