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by 50something 8y ago
There was Data Analytics Career Fair at Harvard, which is another advantage of being a student here. You get invited to the career fairs.
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by 50something 8y ago
if you follow the above link, you'll see that you could join the Harvard health plan, even as a family. If you had your own, your could opt out. You can't be a 3/4 or above time student without health care coverage in MA. It&
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by 50something 8y ago
It was the standard Harvard Extension ALB [0]. You can optionally choose a Field of Study, which was CompSci in my case. And then if you qualify as a special student you can take almost any course in the college or grad school. It's a
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by 50something 8y ago
I think that's true for the technical portion, or more precisely someone who has recently refreshed their knowledge in college junior level algorithms and data structures. (equivalent of Harvard CS121 at minimum, ideally CS124).
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by 50something 8y ago
If you are in MA, students enrolled in 12 credits or more (3 classes) per semester are required to have health insurance. https://www.extension.harvard.edu/resources-policies/complet...
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by 50something 8y ago
I don't why Coursera gets so much attention for an online CS masters when it has been available for years at Harvard. Even Stanford relaxed the prior constraint of being in a member company for their online masters in CompSci. http:&#
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by 50something 8y ago
Also, I got rejected twice (!) at Microsoft and didn't even get an interview at Amazon, so I can sympathize with "GoogleyAsHeck." Clearly hiring is a very noisy process with a lot of randomness. A lot of it is beyond your con
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by 50something 8y ago
It took three years. As I mentioned elsewhere, I tested out of a semester of work. Unlike undergrads, I was used to working year round, so I took January term and summer classes to reduce elapsed time. While some remote students have been a
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by 50something 8y ago
I'm trying to stay anonymous and am concerned I may have already revealed too much. Let's just say it is a technical role that involves coding and leave it at that.
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by 50something 8y ago
I was fortunate enough to be in a situation where I could pursue it full time. I started part time, really liked it, and decided to complete it full time.
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by 50something 8y ago
I'm actually not a fan of CS50. I never took the course, but I went through the online material did the first few weeks of assignments. It is very broad and very shallow. It is also very hard and discouraging without some guided assist
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by 50something 8y ago
I didn't have any prior degree so I couldn't go straight to masters. Not even any transfer credits. But I was able to test out (via CLEP) for the equivalent of 4 classes including the language requirement, which saved me a semeste
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by 50something 8y ago
I had studied a lot of ML but all the technical questions were focused on traditional algorithms, so this was still a little retro. The math requirement was minimal but I had more than enough from the ML coursework. Bamberg's Math 23a
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by 50something 8y ago
Yeah, I got special student status which allowed me to take grad level CS classes. Requirements: * min 64 credits, 32 of which from HES, 12 of which must be in the relevant field, i.e. CompSci * >= 3.33 GPA * The hardest part: two recomm
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by 50something 8y ago
>You feel it was worth the cost? Harvard Extension is a bargain compared to most colleges. $1500-$2500 for most 4 credit classes. Don't tell those smart college students that you are getting the same class for less than half the pri
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by 50something 8y ago
A lot of it was stuff that is basic to someone with years of work experience: * Start assignments as soon as they are given out. Stupid, right? * Don't be shy about asking lots of questions. Don't be egotistical or afraid about as
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by 50something 8y ago
Google must be doing something right in their candidate triage algorithms. I applied for one job and they suggested another that was a better fit, which I hadn't even considered. I applied to a bunch of places and only Google seemed to
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by 50something 8y ago
It is so much easier being a student now, mostly because of the amazing resources available online. In the bad old days, if you didn't understand a topic and had a bad professor, you were screwed. Today, a two second search will find l
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by 50something 8y ago
I am finishing my bachelors in CompSci at Harvard Extension and just got hired by Google. And I've got about 20 years on you. So yeah, absolutely, this can work! It was fun and challenging competing with top computer science students.
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by 50something 9y ago
This is another Ric Fulop company, notoriously the founder of A123 Systems [1]. That company also raised "a ton" of money but ultimately blew up, filing for bankruptcy. I'm skeptical of this new endeavor because of both econo
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Ask HN: PhD or a job for recent 50-something grad
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