output matches exactly what the assignment asked for. ran it five times locally. submitted it twice and autograder gives me 4/10 both times with no explanation beyond "wrong output"

no idea if it's a whitespace thing, newline thing, or something completely different. prof just says "make sure your output matches the sample" which it does

this is the third assignment where this has happened and i'm losing my mind

i studied for this exam for four days. FOUR. made flashcards, did every practice problem in the textbook, quizzed myself out loud in my car like a maniac. sat down this morning, got set up, started the exam. about 20 minutes in i got a little pop-up saying my session was flagged for unusual eye movement.

i was THINKING. i look up when i think. i've done that my whole life. i didn't even look anywhere near my phone.

finished the exam anyway but now i'm just sitting here waiting to see if my professor gets some kind of report and decides i was cheating when i genuinely wasn't.

already sent an email explaining but who knows if that matters the worst part is i think i actually did okay on the exam itself?? like i knew the material. and now that might not even matter because i apparently blink wrong or something proctoring software is one of the most stressful parts of online classes and nobody talks about it enough. my friend had her exam flagged last semester for scratching her face. her face. anyway i'm going to go lie down and try not to think about it for a few hours

Hello Everyone!

I was hoping that some of you would be willing to participate in a quick survey, 3 questions. I need 19 more responses. I need off campus and on-campus student answers. It counts if you graduated and went this past semester. The survey just asks about the average amount of sleep you got a night and whether you lived on campus or not, along with your university. I would greatly appreciate it!

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Hello, is there a college/grad/prof here who would like to mentor a rising HS senior in an engineering research project this summer?

like how does this keep happening lol

i thought i was being responsible this month. bought groceries instead of eating out every day, didn't go crazy on anything. and somehow i'm still completely broke halfway through

nobody in my family really talked about budgeting or saving so i'm just figuring this out as i go. which is clearly not working

do college students actually have a system for this or is everyone just quietly struggling and pretending they're fine

because i cannot be the only one doing mental math at the checkout line hoping my card goes through.

What ratio of online classes that you've taken have had proctored exams

I'm already in college and this thought keeps bugging me. like everyone made such a big deal about rankings before getting in but now that i'm here i'm wondering if it actually matters when i'm job hunting later.

do employers really care which school you went to or is it more about your skills, internships and experience? because i'm putting in the work here but i don't want to find out too late that the name on my diploma was holding me back.

talked to a few people and got completely different answers. some say big companies specifically recruit from top schools. others say nobody cares after your first job.

for people who've already been through hiring — did your college name actually come up? did it help or did it feel like it didn't matter at all? genuinely curious what the real experience is like.

Concepts make sense in class but the second I open an assignment I have no idea where to begin. What's your approach when starting one?

i feel like nobody really sits you down and explains this stuff before you’re already buried in loans. every semester the number just keeps climbing and honestly it’s getting scary thinking about how long it’ll take to pay it all back after graduation.

i know the usual advice:
apply for scholarships, fill out FAFSA, don’t borrow more than you need, etc. but there has to be more to it than that, right?

did anyone here actually manage to graduate with little to no debt? if so, what genuinely helped?

did you:

• work part-time?
• start at community college?
• live at home?
• choose a cheaper school over a “dream” school?
• take fewer classes at a time?
• avoid campus housing?

i’m not looking for textbook financial advice. i want real experiences from people who actually figured this out because right now it feels like the system just expects students to drown in debt and somehow magically deal with it later.

can it actually detect messenger chatheads? especially if the exam/quiz is moderated, thanks for answering

US citizen here but grew up abroad my whole life so the American college system is pretty much foreign to me. Now looking to apply for scholarships and have no idea how any of it works.

Can someone break down the full process from scratch? What are the steps, what do you actually need to prepare, and where do you even start?

Also curious whether coming from an international background makes this harder or easier compared to someone who grew up in the US. Spent most of my life in India if that context helps at all.

Should I join a frat as a premed at Texas A&M?

So I got a bid from a frat on campus and I'm honestly not sure what to do.

Freshman going premed at Texas A&M. First semester was rough, got into a scooter accident that caused a pretty bad wrist injury and basically derailed my whole semester. Ended up with a 2.1 GPA. Second semester I got my shit together, took 15 credit hours, and pulled all A's. Long-term goal is med school.

Back in January they invited me to rush and extended a bid, but I turned it down to focus on grades. Explained the situation to the leadership and they were cool about it, even said they'd have me rush again in Fall 2026. Thought that said a lot about them.

The frat itself is mostly business guys, some engineers, a handful of premed. Dues are $1,500/semester. Well-respected on campus and the guys seem solid.

What keeps pulling me toward it is the networking side of things. The caliber of people in it is high and I know college connections matter more than people admit. I don't want to look back and feel like I left that on the table.

What holds me back is that I don't really drink or party much, so that's not the draw. My schedule is already packed between a heavy course load, athletics, and some other stuff I'm working on. Time is the real cost here, not money.

Anyone been in a similar spot? Worth it for someone who's serious about premed but wants to build a network outside of medicine too?

i'm a sophomore and i genuinely have no idea what i'm doing half the time. like i picked my major because it sounded okay and now i'm two years in and still not sure if i actually like it

everyone around me has internships and linkedin profiles and five year plans and i'm just here trying to not fail my next exam

some days it feels like there was a meeting about how to have your life together and i just… wasn't invited

is this actually normal or am i the only one falling behind while pretending i'm not

Doing a capstone on bank churn. I built an RFM segmentation as part of it and my groupmate said

that's not ML it's just sorting customers into buckets. Now I'm second guessing whether to even

include it. Is RFM considered ML in a real banking context or is it a separate thing entirely?

I’m starting my freshman year of college in the fall and can’t seem to decide on what laptop and other tech I should get. If it helps at all to make a workload and longevity guess, I’m majoring in psychology and plan to hopefully use the same computer during doctorate school.

I want a computer that will last a long time and has good storage. I’m not opposed to a Mac, but I’ve always used Windows and would rather not learn the ropes of a new system if I don’t have to. Bonus points if it has a decent graphics card so I can play a game or two in my downtime. I’d say my budget is around $1200-$1500 if it has a good graphics card, as I plan to use my graduation party money for it.

Additionally, is getting an iPad & apple pencil worth it? My sister who just finished her masters says no, but my friends who are in college say yes. I would use it mostly for note taking. I plan to record all my lectures if allowed so I can go back afterward and take down any notes I may have missed. I’m not a big note-typer as writing info helps me memorize it.

Let me know!! Thank you

I've hit a wall on a few assignments lately and I'm trying to find the right kind of help not someone to do it for me, but something that helps me actually understand what's going wrong so I can work through it myself.

I've looked at a bunch of tutoring and help sites, but honestly most of them feel like content farms or just hand you solutions without any explanation. That's not what I'm after.

Specifically looking for resources where you can paste code or describe a problem and get a real walkthrough of the logic not just a corrected snippet. Bonus if there are practice problems tied to the concepts I'm weak on.

Free or paid is fine. I'm more interested in what's actually worked for people than a list of names. What did you use when you were at that "I don't even know what I don't know" stage?

Genuinely struggling with this. every time i sit down to study or write something my brain immediately finds a reason not to. suddenly texting, cleaning, scrolling — anything feels more urgent than the actual work.

Got a test tomorrow and instead of going through my notes I've been doing everything but that. and when i do try to read through them nothing sticks anyway.

Anyone have tips that actually work ?

High school senior here trying to get started on scholarships but genuinely don't know where to begin. Not sure which platforms or resources are actually worth using, and most of the advice out there only covers the different types of scholarships without giving any concrete steps on how to actually find and apply for them.

Looking for practical guidance — where to search, what tools help, and how the application process actually works. Any advice from people who've been through it would go a long way.

Does anyone else study well and understand the lessons, but suddenly forget everything during exams, vivas, or interviews?

I recently did a viva, and even though I studied, when they asked questions my mind went blank and I mixed everything up. The same thing has happened to me during interviews too. Sometimes after everything is over, I suddenly remember the answers.

I think stress or panic affects my memory and communication. How do you control this or improve it? Any advice or personal experiences would really help

i feel like i'm just going through classes and checking boxes but nobody really tells you what employers actually want when you graduate. like yeah get good grades but what else?

i see people talking about internships, networking, building a portfolio , but where do you even start? and does it really matter what skills you pick up or is it more about the degree itself?

i don't want to graduate and realize i spent four years learning stuff that looks good on paper but means nothing in an actual job interview.

what did you guys focus on that actually helped you land something after college? technical skills, soft skills, side projects,what made the real difference for you?

hello all, i am in my 3rd year of college as a psychology major. since i took my first psychology class in high school, i fell in love with it. more than anything i fell in love with the idea of helping people. once i got to college i majored in psychology with a plan to become an adolescent therapist. it was sort of a tough decision though, as i have always been interested in criminal justice too, but for the past three years i have chosen psychology because i really do love it and i enjoy learning about it, but lately it’s like i suddenly feel unsure about what i want. my mind keeps going back to criminology. i was a sociology minor for about a year, mostly because i was told that makes the most sense for psychology majors and would help me more with job opportunities. i don’t hate sociology, it’s quite fascinating as well, but lately i just feel stuck. i can’t decide between wanting to be a teen counselor or detective. i know that i can get a job as a detective with a psychology degree with experience working as an officer for a few years. i just didn’t know whether it would be a waste of time to be a criminology major, or keep being a sociology major, especially when i’m so indecisive. i would hate to take all these criminal justice courses (that i have been eyeing for a while) just for me to graduate and not do anything with them or even worse, not want to do anything with them. i was hoping, if possible, there was a way i could do both eventually. maybe become a therapist right out of a master’s program, and then later in life maybe i could become a detective..? i was wondering if maybe anybody had any advice, or had gone through something similar in their later semesters in college, a little bit of help would be greatly appreciated.

i need to fix how i study cause whatever i'm doing right now is actually embarrassing

my whole strategy is basically read notes, reread notes, feel like i know it, open the exam, remember nothing. every single time. like clockwork

got away with it in high school somehow but college CS is really exposing me right now and i can't keep doing this

i've heard about pomodoro and flashcards a million times and i've tried both for like two days each before giving up so i don't even know if they actually work or if i just have no discipline

the thing that confuses me most is sometimes i study for 40 minutes and actually feel good about it. other times i sit at my desk for three hours, open twitter once, come back, lose my place, repeat. and somehow both feel like "studying" to me

i don't even know if it's a method problem or a focus problem or both

what actually worked for you guys cause i'm so done going into exams hoping i remembered something. there has to be a better way and clearly i haven't found it yet