by Daniel Maltz, 2nd Year
Before Covid a typical day would be waking up at 8:30 to get to lectures at 9. Having a couple lectures every day and then heading back to my room to chill/eat lunch/eventually get around to working. Some days I have practicals, which involve going to the nearby Engineering department and working in labs for a couple of hours. Post-Covid all the lectures are online, so I tend to watch them later in the day and work later too. Practicals are also online.
I like studying CompSci at Keble because it’s right across the road from the CompSci department. We’ve got quite a large computer science cohort so there’s always people around to help and our tutors are great.
If you’re applying for CompSci try to relate computer science to your personal life. Also try to reference things you’ve done that prove your problem solving skills, as well as any relevant work experience/rewards, but also don’t oversell yourself: your skills will be tested at interview and you don’t want to be caught out.
The admissions test for CompSci consists of maths you will have encountered at GCSE or A Level, but pose the questions in a way that put your problem solving skills to the test. The best way to prepare is to do the MAT past papers to see what kind of questions you’ll be expected to answer.
Don’t stress too much about the interviews. You’ll meet a couple of CS tutors from your college and they’ll ask you problems to try and figure out how you go about solving them. They want you to succeed and will give you hints if you need, it’s only as stressful as you hype it up to be.
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