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CEO @LambdaSchool (YC S17): A CS education that's free until you get a job. I have made remarks that I do not agree with.

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    Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4

    I'm shocked at how many applications Lambda School gets that look like this: "I got a near-perfect score on the SATs, passed math/science classes with above 100%, but just couldn't force myself to care about some classes and ended up failing out." The number is remarkable.

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      2. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        My story was quite the ride, and honestly I wish I had considered or had something like this when I was going. This one is going to get a bit long, so fair warning. (Thread)

        1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      3. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur @AustenAllred

        Like all College Juniors I thought I was infinitely clever and guaranteed a job. I just had to ride it out, get a good internship, and I was set for life. Saying I was arrogant would be putting it mildly. Anyways, I get an internship interview with Amazon and the fun begins.

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur @AustenAllred

        They ask me some basic algorithmic questions and I can't even manage a few for loops to do it. I get completely and utterly destroyed, and deservedly so. It was a question about finding substrings and we'd never done a thing remotely like it in college. I panicked.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur @AustenAllred

        Suddenly I had to face a reality that I didn't know a dang thing, and it stung. I was left pretty well dumbfounded for weeks afterwards. I made a decision after that, and I credit it to me being where I am now.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur @AustenAllred

        I decided to stop going to class, and keep a bare minimum to pass. I spent every last cent I had on Amazon and online resources to learn everything I could. Quite frankly I was mad. All the time I spent at college was near worthless. So I studied, read, did, and fought.

        2 replies 0 retweets 8 likes
      7. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur @AustenAllred

        I ended up graduating with a 2.89 GPA, but a wealth of knowledge in Ruby and a desire to prove myself as a competent engineer that never really went away. At the time it was terrifying. I took a risk and gambled on my education, but looking back I'd do it all over again.

        3 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
      8. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4
        Replying to @keystonelemur

        I talk with people like you every day. Luckily you realized it before graduation. Not everyone does.

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      9. Brandon Weaver‏ @keystonelemur Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Yeah, which is exactly why I'm trying so hard to reach out to other students like that and get them ready. It's also why I tend to donate heavily to middle school and high school programs for tech, because I want them to have a good head start on things.

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      2. James O'Leary‏ @jpohhhh Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        +1. Is there any way as an individual to help these people out? It would mean a lot to give back, I had to drop out of college, be a waiter, teach myself to program, build a startup, sell it, and learn CS to get to Google, and it was awful_ to do it alone.

        1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4
        Replying to @jpohhhh

        We train them for free until they get a job, need to help with living stipends soon

        0 replies 0 retweets 3 likes
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      2. Cher {...  🎄}‏ @codehitchhiker Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        The responses to this post are a bit scary. I am one of these people. I dropped out of high school from getting bullied. No one would classify me as someone who can't write, a shitty leader, or having no engagement with society. You can't define people without their story.

        3 replies 0 retweets 23 likes
      3. David Brunelle‏ @davidbrunelle Jun 4
        Replying to @codehitchhiker @AustenAllred

        I dropped out... 4 times! And also don't think you'd find many folks questioning my commitment to my trade, my teams, or the companies I have worked for.

        3 replies 0 retweets 7 likes
      4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4
        Replying to @davidbrunelle @codehitchhiker

        I only dropped out twice

        1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
      5. Cher {...  🎄}‏ @codehitchhiker Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred @davidbrunelle

        I dropped out of high school twice, and college 4 times, too! All I see are winners, honestly!

        0 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
      6. End of conversation
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      2. Janto McMullin‏ @JantoMc Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        How good at math can they be if they think % goes over 100? 🤔 Or is there just some weird grading in US?

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      3. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4
        Replying to @JantoMc

        The latter

        1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
      4. Janto McMullin‏ @JantoMc Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Damn, that's nasty, sloppy grading

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
      5. End of conversation
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      2. Nick Hutton‏ @nickdothutton Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred

        Knowledge is easy to come-by. Inspirational educators are harder to find.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      3. Chris #NeverAgain Griffith‏ @streetnoodle Jun 4
        Replying to @nickdothutton @AustenAllred

        Please. You have no idea if an educator was the reason for the turn-off. Relying on a teacher to build up a sincere caring suggests the individual just blew the class off because not interested. Then, all good because "I did not care." Super irresponsible. Try that at work...

        1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
      4. Austen Allred‏Verified account @AustenAllred Jun 4
        Replying to @streetnoodle @nickdothutton

        Not sure I agree that every person needs to be interested in every topic to be a successful human

        2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
      5. Nick Hutton‏ @nickdothutton Jun 4
        Replying to @AustenAllred @streetnoodle

        Why is this relevant, or important? Why should I care? What can this do for me? What hinges upon this? All questions best answered by an enthusiastic and inspiring educator.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      6. Chris #NeverAgain Griffith‏ @streetnoodle Jun 4
        Replying to @nickdothutton @AustenAllred

        Or...ya need it to graduate, perhaps? This is COLLEGE, not middle school.

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