Alumnus Insights + Q&A! [Recording]

Eric is an international CS student at the University of Washington Seattle. He runs a startup and has previously interned at Amazon.
How he gets here, though, is fascinating.
Hear about high school passions, academic life, application advice, and entrepreneurship. A Q&A session follows.
✅If you have any questions of your own, feel free to drop them below! I will correspond you with Eric.✅
CHAPTERS-----------------------------------
0:00 - Who Am I?
0:30 - Eric's Journey: High School
2:16 - Eric's Journey: University
3:22 - Eric's Journey: Internship + Uni
3:45 - University Applications
4:58 - UW vs. UW...
6:28 - Application Tips
7:49 - Entrepreneurship (and how this applies to you)
10:10 - Mastering a Subject
11:28 - Become a Coding Prodigy
12:51 - Q&A begins
13:16 - Scholarships?
13:52 - What are possible career pathways in engineering?
15:12 - how was your dorm life?
16:03 - a spiel on time management
17:17 - WHAT WERE YOUR MARKS?
18:25 - Challenges you faced when entering your program?
20:43 - How are extracurriculars evaluated? and in your case?
21:57 - When do you recommend starting uni applications? How do you tackle them?
23:17 - On building a coding portfolio (and hackathons)
24:35 - Keeping motivation and working on projects
25:49 - When do you decide on a major at American colleges?
27:03 - What contests and projects boosted your RESUME?
28:46 - have you programmed any games?
28:58 - haha! what instruments did you play during high school?
As always, thank you for watching!
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