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Anonymous Sat 13 Jun 21:25:42 2020 No.11794819 View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11795659 >>11795671 >>11795687 >>11795709 >>11796052 >>11796733

>finishing CS and math undergrad in three semesters
Is he bullshitting?
>https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/11/do-it-now/

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 00:51:28 No.11795393 Report

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C'mon, help a bro out

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 02:43:11 No.11795659 Report

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>>11794819
Maybee

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 02:48:41 No.11795671 Report

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>>11794819
Some shcools will simply refuse to allow students to enroll in that many courses in a semester.
A classmante of mine had to get approval from the dean to enroll in 21 credit hours/semester, they never would have allowed 30-40.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 02:55:36 No.11795687 Report

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>>11794819
He must have stuff his stomach with Adderall.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 03:03:54 No.11795709 Report

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>>11794819
try being rational for one second. what's more likely?
1. this guy actually completed 30+ credit-hours of coursework while holding down a full-time job and having a social life, plus exercising every day, all due to "good time management hurr durr"
2. someone's bullshitting on the internet to sell you a guide of "productivity hacks"

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 06:06:53 No.11796052 Report

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>>11794819
Well it's more possible his dad is a donor parent so they award their children special privileges this included.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 08:22:11 No.11796406 Report

Quoted By: >>11796906 >>11797003

It smells like bullshit after doing some simple math
>120 credits required to graduate
>40 credit hours per semester (3 semesters)
>40 hours per week
>since it was 2005, it would have all been in-person since online classes weren't big back then, even in CS
>schools are required to give 2-3 hours of out-of-class work per credit hour to meet accreditation requirements
>even if he was extremely efficient, that's still 40-80 hours per week
>80-120 hours per week devoted to school
>120-160 hours per week when you factor in his 40 hour work week
>176-216 hours per week when you factor in sleeping 8 hours per day
>doesn't include eating, travel time, socializing, and assumes each class is IMMEDIATELY after the other
>there are 168 hours in a week
>>11795709
>>11796052
It's almost certainly these. There was a kid (I think he was like 12) who "graduated" university in 2 semesters, but it turned out his dad basically paid for a piece of paper from a degree mill.

Even if this did happen, what use would a degree like that be? It's not like you are learning it all, since you're just cramming everything in.

>Pavlina was arrested for grand theft in Sacramento, California and given 60 hours of community service
Oh, so he's just lying.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 08:26:31 No.11796412 Report

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Summer classes maybe and having AP classes. Doesn’t seem likely. I couldn’t imagine doing so.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 10:43:26 No.11796733 Report

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>>11794819
even if you could, you wouldnt remember half of it and would be bad at your job.

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:14:37 No.11796906 Report

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>>11796406
You forgot to calculate in that CS is really easy if you're not some fucktarded brainlet

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Anonymous Sun 14 Jun 2020 12:58:05 No.11797003 Report

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>>11796406
But that out-of-class work won't necessarily take as much time if you find it easy. I don't know how good the uni he went to was either, but at first he went to Berkeley but was expelled because he wasn't doing shit. The story goes that it almost landed him in prison and it woke him up, at which point he decided to be mega productive and blaze through the course in a smaller college.

>>11796412
No summer classes according to him and he took a free day every weekend, so we can consider only 6 days when calculating his study hours.

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jun 2020 00:07:52 No.11799108 Report

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>>11796906
>>11797003
CS first year is fairly easy "what is a programming language" type stuff and Gen Eds, but later courses are all math and algorithm based. It may have been different back then, but I dunno.

If you work it backwards
>6 days (he takes one day off one the weekend)
>48 hours sleeping
>40 hours in class
>40 hours working
>6 hours traveling to/from work and school
>6 hours of eating (extremely fast, only 20 minutes per meal)
>1.5 hours for shitting, showering, etc
>141.5 hours total
>there are 144 total hours in 6 days
That leaves him with 2.5 hours per week to do homework/projects for 13-14 courses, or 11 minutes per course per week.

The other issue is prerequisites. I just checked out the uni he says he graduated from. To get a Math BS today you need
>Calc 1
>Introduction to Algorithms and Programming and Lab

>Calc 2 (req Calc 1)
>Mechanics and its lab (req Calc 1)

>Calc 3 (req Calc 2)
>Intro to Linear Algebra (req Calc 2)
>Foundations of Higher Math (req Calc 2)
>Intro Probability (req Calc 2)

>Differential Equations (req Calc 3 and Intro to Linear Algebra)
>Abstract Algebra I (req Intro to Linear Algebra and Foundations of Higher Math)
>Intro to Scientific Computing and Lab (req Intro to Linear Algebra)
>Advanced Calculus I (req Foundations of Higher Math)
>Advanced Linear Algebra (req Intro to Linear Algebra and Foundations of Higher Math)
>Combinatorics (req Foundations of Higher Math)
>Number Theory (req Foundations of Higher Math)
>Mathematical Statistics I (req Intro Probability)

>Abstract Algebra II (req Abstract Algebra I)
>Advanced Calculus II (req Advanced Calculus I)

>Undergraduate Seminar in Mathematics (req Junior standing, so I'm guessing 60 credits)
So at minimum, there are 5 semesters due to prerequisites. Maybe he took Calc in high school and skipped that semester, but I doubt it since it seems like he was a fuckup. Even then, it's 4 semesters minimum. And that's not counting CS

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Anonymous Mon 15 Jun 2020 00:22:11 No.11799145 Report

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Turns out he's a psychic, so maybe he used those powers to graduate early
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/07/ask-steve-erins-intuitive-readings/
https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/06/psychic-readings/

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