My First Attempt at Graduate Algorithm OMSCS Experience

What’s up every body. I am Edson Philippe a software engineer whose mission is to share his experience with you. The topic of today’s short talk is: My experience of taking OSMCS Graduate algorithm class for the first time.
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[@MarkSimithraaratchy]

Great video with some actionable advice. I'm currently taking GA 6515 and this is helping me to change up my priorities within the class.
I appreciate you sharing your experience, Edson -- it's generous of you to make this video for us; thank you. 🙏

[@edsonphilippe58]

I am glad you enjoy this video. Good luck with GA, it's definitely worth it.

[@Swamy456]

Good advice. 👍

[@edsonphilippe58]

Glad you think so!

[@Vinod_Kumar827]

I like your videos a lot Edson. I'm also a new student admitted to Fall 2023 and I chose CS 6035: Introduction to Information Security in my 1st semester. I can find you in the directory and wanted to connect with you for some advice and tips. Would really appreciate it if you could guide me? Shall I send you a test email and block some time to connect with you?

[@edsonphilippe58]

Thanks for the warm comments. I am glad that I am having a positive impact. Congratulation on being accepted, this might be one of the most rewarding experience. You get to learn many topics. I am having a lot of fun and lot of frustrations some other time. It's a challenge for me to meet synchronously because of my the amount of thing I am doing, but I am always very responsive via email. Feel free to email anytime you might have or any questions and I would promptly reply. My email is easy to find. I am scared to post it here so that bots does not start spamming me. however, it should be in the about me. Good luck with everything.

[@CLG111]

Just got admitted to GT OMSCS and still considering whether I am going to go there or go somewhere else because I keep hearing all these horror stories about people getting Cs and Fs in classes etc. I appreciate your honesty. I takes cojones to put yourself out there and say, " I got a C dammit, so what, I'm going to take the class again, and here's what you need to know to succeed in it." Keep the videos coming. I'll be watching.

[@edsonphilippe58]

honestly, I don't think you should be scared because of what you have heard. Maybe you only hear from a very small subset of students. The program in itself is not difficult like you might have heard. I am about to graduate and in a distant future, no one would not remember the grade you got for a specific class. The hard part is balancing personal life with classes. There is only 24hr in a day. You sleep for 8 hours and go to work for 8 hours. Commute might be 1 hr; so you only left with 7 hours per day. Some classes, you have to to use 2 of those hours 7 every day and some other classes require less hours. The hard part is balancing the time you have; but the program itself is not that hard. Hope that make sense.

[@tahirm09]

Good

[@edsonphilippe58]

Thanks

[@GauravSinghnikumb]

Can you share what courses you took for graduation

[@edsonphilippe58]

I retook the same course because it's required for me to graduate. My specialization was computing systems and without that class, I would not have been able to graduate.

[@GauravSinghnikumb]

@@edsonphilippe58 list of courses you took for computing systems ?