if you say that you’re interested in computer science and also music, or studying the Hebrew Bible, wow, that’s just, that must mean you’re just not very serious about computer science.
This part is not limited to academia. In computer science, it is now trendy to show your open-source contributions and GitHub projects, which shows that when you get home from your programming job, you also spend your free time programming… as opposed to, you know, having a different hobby or friends or a family. Not programming in your free time means you are not very serious.
(I suppose that programming in your free time, but using technologies that are frowned upon, or programming something completely unrelated to the job you apply for, is also a sign of not being completely serious. Your hobby should be very similar to your job. Oh, and you should probably stop doing it when you get the job, because now it would be infringing on your company’s intellectual property. But when you change the job, you are somehow magically supposed to have a few GitHub projects using the latest technological fads again.)
This part is not limited to academia. In computer science, it is now trendy to show your open-source contributions and GitHub projects, which shows that when you get home from your programming job, you also spend your free time programming… as opposed to, you know, having a different hobby or friends or a family. Not programming in your free time means you are not very serious.
(I suppose that programming in your free time, but using technologies that are frowned upon, or programming something completely unrelated to the job you apply for, is also a sign of not being completely serious. Your hobby should be very similar to your job. Oh, and you should probably stop doing it when you get the job, because now it would be infringing on your company’s intellectual property. But when you change the job, you are somehow magically supposed to have a few GitHub projects using the latest technological fads again.)