/sci/ - Science & Math

2.6
I got a pretty crappy job out of college then later used that job as experience to get better jobs. Once I put up with that first job nobody asked or cared about my college GPA

>>12319893

This is the recipe. Take what you can get straight out of college and then navigate your way to better pastures.

Dropped out. Now I work in the valley at 22
I'd say it's going alright

>>12319893
do you do any cool stuff?

>>12319876
Social score in China
>China bad

Social score in the US
>USA good

>>12319876
>>12319899
>>12319893
The biggest problem with a low GPA is that you can only get into trash graduate programs

>>12319918
go back before it's too late. I did this at 23 and hit a ceiling applying for upper level positions. Back in school finishing bachelors at 27.

>>12319918
>>12319893
Job exp > gpa
>>12319876
Cs get degrees homie
>>12319946
get fucked glow nigger.
>>12320044
>graduate programs
kek retard problems.

Graduated with a 2.3 - totally embarrassing and one of my biggest regrets, I basically just gave up and put in the minimum for my last 2 years of undergrad.
Fortunately, I was decent at research and made some good contacts so I was able to work in research for 2 years after graduating and publish a couple papers in good field journals.
Now im in one of the better graduate schools for my field and am happy with where I am. But I still cringe whenever I have to bring up undergrad transcripts

>>12320055
>kek retard problems.
You realize high end jobs actually require master and PhD degrees right?

>>12319938
I work at a place that invents things. It's pretty weird, we get invention ideas from the higher ups and it's our job on 'the floor' to put the ideas into working prototypes. There's no hours, we come and go as we want, there's 4 refrigerators on each floor of the building with free snacks, the bathrooms are straight out of Star Trek, the things we invent are all 'life changing' which is the goal of the company. The owner wants to create a modern day Menlo Park.

It's like living and working in candyland. I often wonder how I got lucky enough to work here with a 2.6 GPA but literally nobody has ever asked or cared.

>>12319938
OH, and this is the company I work at
https://halllabs.com/home/

>>12319918
t. Glorified codemonkey

>>12319876
How the fuck does GPA even work in Australia? I average ~86% in one unit and ~72% in another and it says my GPA is fucking 5.8 kek

>>12320159
GPA operates fundamentally different than
percentages--it's sum of letter grade values times
credits, divided by sum of earned credits.

In your case, 86% is like a B+ (3.3) average and
72% is like a C- (1.7) average.

>>12319876
There's a CS professor at UIUC who frequently posts on Quora (forgot his name) but his undergraduate GPA was 2.4 before he got admitted into a Master's and PhD program

>>12320186
>In your case, 86% is like a B+ (3.3) average and
72% is like a C- (1.7) average.
Is this in Australia undergrad? I haven't seen conversions close to that for undergrad in Canada. 86% is an A in my school

>>12319946
One is a measure of obedience to government, the other is a measure of work ethic/intelligence. False equivalency retard

>>12320229
I'm basing this on equivalencies from the U.S.

For me, between 94% and 97% is an A.

>>12319876
>3rd year
>2.0 GPA
I'm just going to become a monk. Tired of being in samsara desu.

>>12320066
Cope more

>>12319876
bump to dab on the brainlets

>>12321306
How does this thread dab on brainlets?

>>12320052
Who hired you with all that gap anon?

>>12320655
You are not intelligent.

>>12322504
Different anon, here. But my gap comes from military service, leadership positions in the private sector, my kid getting cancer, and then the decision to go to school with my G.I. Bill. No one cares about the gap.

>>12319876
Almost equivalent to 2.5/4 GPA but from a top university. Cushy job in middle management with great salary with a lifestyle comparable to $200k job in states.

2.7 making more than my friends who graduated with a 3.3. Hard work hardly works.

>2.6 gpa
>get into random shitty pharmD program in no name school(pro tip: all pharmD schools are shit in the first place so it doesnt matter where you go. Yes even UCSF because no one has even heard of it.)
>make comfy 150k with few years experience

>>12319876
yeah, worked for a bit then went to grad school at a top 10

I have 4 years of experience under my belt, but I fucked up with my GPA, and it is around 2.9. How bad is it the prospect of my getting into a Masters program?

>>12322738
What if you can't say anything meaningful, like self employment, wouldn't they question why you now want employment?

>>12323159
glad it worked out for you

>>12323159
isn't pharmacy super saturated now and it's almost impossible to get good jobs like that

>>12320186
>>12320270
Nah I ran a converter, an 76% here is like a B (Distinction) and an 86% is an A (High Distinction) - they add up to a 3.5 GPA.

>>12323880
Not any of those anons, but what converter did you use?

>>12322504
gap isn't a problem if you're good at the job

>>12320066
grad school is a meme unless you're aiming for academia. Modern academia is a meme. Ergo grad school is a meme no matter what.

>>12324854
How can you be good at the job if you never had any experience prior to graduating at 27? What employer hires 27 year old graduates competing with 22 year olds?

>>12320097
company name?

>>12319876
My career is going well. I had a lot of relevant work experience before I graduated and now I'm doing pretty much nothing but internal applied research projects. I just write Python for robotics prototypes and high performance computing all day.

GPA is a meme. I graduated with a 2.75 or something and got a job right out of college. I'm less than 4 years out of school with a bachelors degree and working at a nat lab making 6-figures. It's all about who you meet and how your present yourself during interviews

i have a 8.02 gpa but also have 2 backlogs which I am yet to clear