Beats by Dre seems to be the latest hype with headphones. But I think it sucks, why?

1. It needs batteries. It does not work without batteries
2. It breaks easily, the body feels like flimsy plastic
3. They are really expensive for what they are worth
4. Those who are using Beats by Dr. Dre are using their iPods, and the sound quality sucks!

Personally, for my bass needs I have a pair of Sony MDR-XB700, I can feel my ear drums vibrate by the bass generated by these. Also, on the side I have a pair of Sennheiser HD 280 PROs for my flat responses, and passive noise cancelling needs.

Both of covers my needs for bass and studio quality sounds, each was cheaper than the Beats. Both does not require batteries. And my HD280s has gone to hell and back. I am looking forward to the HD380s soon! And when I get my own place post University, I am picking a pair of HD800 and the PS1000s, with separate DAC, and AMP, running on redundant pure sine wave filtered PSU.

I am currently in my 4th year at university majoring in Computer Science, as of writing this post I am taking my last 2 computer science courses that I need in order to graduate.

I started school, I went through the first year classes, I did coop, I found jobs, I did assignments, midterms, and finals, I didn’t sleep for days so I can finish my assigned work. So as an undergrad, I have “been there and back.” Now I am going to admit that I don’t like school, I will probably never like it, I don’t have a good study habit, nor do I really care about some of the subjects that I am learning. The only two reasons that I am in it is because of my parents, and personal satisfaction. (Well actually a Masters would be my personal satisfaction, but that will be another time.) Why do I not care? because there are no space on my resume left for education, so on my resume, I am listed as “college drop out”. Regardless, I still get my fair share of job offers and interviews based on my previous experience.

Recently I was involved with the freshmen of 2015/2016  at the University of Waterloo. I had my first hand observing a group of new incoming students. I have to say that you will not be able to have an enjoyable 4 years of school:

1. If you can’t handle 5 courses or if going to university is too stressful, and you need time off
2. If you can’t get the faculty policy minimum average in your first year. (This is where you should be getting high 80% to high 90% to boost your 4th year average)
3. If you can’t study, don’t know how to study, or just don’t study
4. If you are doing a major because your parents/friends/peer pressure/for the money
5. If you can’t do examinations. University is course is usually a midterm, a final, and a couple of assignments (<=20%). So a heavy emphasis on the exams
6. If you don’t have good time management skills

Now to computer science majors:

1. If you are not interested with code
2. If you can’t translate the theory to actual code
3. If you can’t transfer code from one place into another by reading it, understand it, and learning it