Rohit Chopra
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Podcast Appearances
And I thought that, you know, there's a lot of great opportunities there.
They told us there were a lot of great opportunities there.
The job market was great.
in 2022 um but yeah i mean now i have a 4.0 gpa i literally literally straight a's like my entire time here at college um i've done you know i was a teaching assistant i've done research in in various labs and you know another big thing too that like they say employers like to look for is that you know you have sort of a decent number of like personal projects like not just that you've
had good grades, but you know, that you were able to actually like work with something like a much larger scale project.
And, you know, I did that like over my soft sophomore and junior year, I worked on like this very large scale, full stack web development project where I like fine tuned large language models to perform like this, this specific task of sort of identifying sort of like spin in like language and,
And yeah, I mean, nothing, nothing back from anyone.
Yeah, and what about, well, one of the things I saw people be critical of your video for is that, well, this guy's not at Stanford, it's University of Central Florida.
But two things to that.
UCF is actually, when it comes to computer science, a pretty strong school.
Secondly, we're not an economy just for Stanford.
There are millions of people in this country.
They all need work.
And so we say, well, sure, everything's fine.
As long as you go to Stanford, you're going to be fine.
However, from what I'm hearing, even the people who went to Stanford are deeply struggling to find the kind of jobs that one year ago even would have been easy for somebody coming out of Stanford.
Just anecdotally, among the circles that you run in, the computer science circles that you run in, what are you hearing from other seniors today?
Yeah, so, you know, I don't know anyone at Stanford.
Most of the people I know are just here at UCF.
You know, I have...