55 points by BerislavLopac 143 days ago | 45 comments
Berkeley Tech Clubs Are Broken. Can They Be Fixed?(dominicdb.substack.com) Over the last week, this email (or one very similar) has been sent out thousands of times. A large portion of Berkeley’s computer and data science majors will - or already have - written essays, attended coffee chats, gone to infosessions, participated in interviews, and completed technical projects in an effort to gain entrance to the 20-ish tech clubs on campus. Most of them - depends on the club, but between 80 and 98% - will fail.