I too had delt with this problem when I was a freshmen in college for cs. Most of the papers were utter bull shit. I had to make a choice and I, somewhat cowardly chose grades, although I did try to do things that really matter (reading books that are good not the ones they want to you mug, writing open source code etc etc), grades were always my priority.
Well, guess what, it is the most stupid decision I ever made. I am out of college, I work in a start up and been to some other companies and none of them ever asked me my grades.
So my advice would be:
- Build more things
- Contribute some couple of Open source projects
- Have a grasp of CS fundamentals (readup on algos, DS, basic computer design)
I too had delt with this problem when I was a freshmen in college for cs. Most of the papers were utter bull shit. I had to make a choice and I, somewhat cowardly chose grades, although I did try to do things that really matter (reading books that are good not the ones they want to you mug, writing open source code etc etc), grades were always my priority.
Well, guess what, it is the most stupid decision I ever made. I am out of college, I work in a start up and been to some other companies and none of them ever asked me my grades.
So my advice would be: - Build more things - Contribute some couple of Open source projects - Have a grasp of CS fundamentals (readup on algos, DS, basic computer design)