I'm so angry at leetcode rn. You write the most elegant code you've ever seen, and it says "You beat 1% of respondents. This uses as much memory as the Apollo program to add two numbers. You'll never get a job, and your master's thesis will be called the slow fourier transform"
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4th February, 2024
TLDR:
📌read Chapter 3 of Grokking Algorithm
📌solved one leetcode problem on Binary Search
📌started a course on optimizing your LinkedIn profile
📌completed the navbar of my second project
Logic (Anything that has to do with programming & work will be explained under logic):
Earlier today I was trying to solve this leet code problem and i didn't figure it out because i was too tired but later found the answer and spent the next 1 hour trying to understand why i couldn't solve it --
i thought of using maps but i didn't know how to update the maps but later found out how to but i always have that issue with updating an array to perform a particular task.
I am also currently working on a project called Tubyte and I was able to complete the navbar to the project today and I am using Next, React for the frontend. It's a CMS, I will talk more on it later
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intro post 💚
Hello! I'm Alica \o/
currently learning: python, react/js, golang
inbox is open to anyone interested to chat about coding 📬
~ joined: may 10th 2023 ~
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(via Chanda-Abdul/Several-Coding-Patterns-for-Solving-Data-Structures-and-Algorithms-Problems-during-Interviews: Several Coding Patterns for Solving Data Structures and Algorithms Problems during Interviews)
some guys github, leetcode patterns
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Lucys Main Quest: Hireability
I work very hard. In fact, I'm working all the time. I work all the time very hard, but I'm still not hireable. I have very few hireable skills.
1. Hireable on Resume
When I look at my resume, I am pretty distant from it, because it has few lines of substance and even those lines I don't really resonate with.
The best possible read of my resume is: she can code python and has done so for MIT labs and classes. Okay???
But can she code a server? Has she ever deployed a personal website? Does she know how to use public API's? No... Can she solve coding challenges? No. (Is she passionate about anything she has learned so far at this institute?) [1]
To think I have to put in hours outside of school to achieve these things makes me sad. I spend most of my hours outside of classwork on dance, painting, cooking, reading, writing, listening to music, and traveling on MIT money. When @tumblasha and I talked about dream job assignments, mine was organizing Lollapalooza. It was not programming graphics, video, and music software for the entertainment industry (as is written on my resume).
2. Hireability at MIT
My friend recently switched her major to design (in her junior year of college), and that's changed her MIT experience 180 degrees for the better. Which is inspiring because imagine if you aligned all of MIT's resources to back what you're actually passionate in. You would be unstoppable. You could do anything you really wanted.
It would be a shame to let go of this opportunity, a shame to trickle down the path of least resistance. Because I'm hard working enough to manage the burden of the path, but not hard working enough to sit down and forge my own.
I wanted to write something about hireability since the beginning of this semester. MIT's career fair was last month, and even before that I had an inspiring coffee chat with an MIT alum/startup CEO (I stepped in for a friend who wasn't feeling good). This Friday, I went to Harvard's creative careers fair, which was a small thing held at the top floor of the smith center. It was small and exclusive, see side story [2]. But I met an artist manager from Chicago who worked with people on Lolla last year. An old white grandfather. A Bizarre exchange continued.
He was very interested in my passion about music work, I was interested in the fact that he worked on Lolla, and I handed him my resume which had a bunch of technical gibberish on it, and he told me that he hadn't thought about paying his interns this summer but this could change if needed.
It was bizarre because I didn't know what I wanted from that exchange. Would I drop everything and be okay with bringing nothing MIT-grade to the table as an entertainment hunchman?
3. The future of things
But all is not lost at the same time. Inklings of hope arose this semester. I'm working towards something, because my classes have FINALLY began to move from fundamentals/tools to how to use this tool to build something of your own design. I can finally speak creative stories because I have learned enough of the technical vocabulary. So now, it's the next step: if I had a portfolio full of work that would attract the right crowd what would it look like?
My goal by the end of this school year is to have a resume I am proud of. Not by Course 6 standards or industry standards. But my own. To have done personal projects I want to show off to people and a body of work that speaks for me.
[1] I feel this cognitive dissonance/out-of-body experience when I read my resume... Exactly like when someone asked me who my favorite artist was and I responded Sza. I was weirded out at myself because I felt like I was lying: yes, I listen to her enough, but like I can't name multiple albums of hers. I am not a fan fan. I am a fan fan of Tyler the Creator, Billie Eilish, and Ariana Grande. But they didn't come to my head at all. What is going on????
[2] Security stopped me on the first floor because I was an MIT student with an email invitation but was not on their registration form. They let my boyfriend with a Harvard guest ID through. Harvard Career Advisors stopped him on the tenth floor because it was for current registered students only and then told him "you can go sit at that chair over there though." And let me through. So much gatekeep.
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HackerRank Vs LeetCode 🔥
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