r/informationsystems

Ohio State and one of the prerequisites for my major courses is discrete math. I wanted to see if anyone else is struggling with it as much as I am.

I did really well in calculus, so I didn’t expect this class to be such a challenge, but something about the logic and proofs just isn’t clicking for me. It feels like a completely different way of thinking.

If you’ve taken it before or are in it now, did it eventually start to make sense?

Any tips or ways you approached learning the material would be really helpful.

I’ve heard the job market is quite challenging right now, and I’m considering focusing more on business-related careers. Is the market really that tough? If I decide to shift away from the tech industry, would it still be difficult to find opportunities?"

I know this gets asked a lot, but I wanted to ask based on my situation.

I’m a second year student studying Business concentrating in MIS in the Bay Area and my resume is honestly pretty weak right now. Not a ton of technical experience that I can put on my resume. I’ve been looking into the Google Data Analytics certificate and was wondering if it’s actually worth doing, or if it’s outdated at this point.

I have also been juggling with the idea of not getting the cert and just learning all of these systems through youtube videos and then create some project for my resume.

My goal is to land some sort of internship Summer 27'

?'s For anyone who’s done it or works in the field-

• did it actually help you get interviews?
• do employers even care about it in the big 26?
• would I be better off just focusing on projects / learning SQL / data visualization tools on my own?

LMK I don't want to waste my time! I also don't want Coursera to burn a hole in my pocket.

I know every company has these issues, but I really wish I could figure out how to get people up to speed and think about what their doing in our ERP system.

For example, im at a manufacturing company, and a sales order clerk (I guess that's the position, basically data entry into ERP) and she was an internal hire from the manufacturing floor, who is being taught by someone with no better skills than her. These two have been bugging me all week because "things arent working" with the issues are just operator error and not actually understanding what the data they are entering means.

We have all these wonderful tools to improve time efficiency and easily update via imports and report data, but I can't give it to them. It would be a disaster to data integrity, and all they know how to do in excel is copy, paste, and sum. She calls me on teams and I ask her to share "You'll have to tell me how to do that". So frustrating.

long story short, graduated in 2019 in my bachelors in computer information systems. from there i went an alternative route into family business and didnt use my degree. the family business ended up only being for a short time. also got into a different field of work after which i dont enjoy as much anymore. currently out of work at the moment and was wondering how i can utilize my computer information systems degree. i was an intern at an IT company in 2019 before graduating but didnt get too much out of that.

my focus in CIS was in a bit of cyber security, data analysis, networking, etc. right now i am basically starting brand new with being outdated with my degree and lack of experience.

my question is, how do i get back into the industry? what are the career options? i know i might need to get some experience with learning some coding and refreshing my SQL knowledge but other than that, what are my options?

for context, im based out of california.

thanks for all advice in advanced!

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I am a student in the Applied Information Systems department at the University of Baghdad ( a bit to far from usa ik ), and I don't fully understand the scope of my major yet. I naturally love programming and software development, but what I see online and from other students is that my department focuses more on business administration, analytical matters related to economics, accounting, and commerce. However, when I talk about 'systems' and 'information systems,' I want to design systems in a broad sense. I don't necessarily want it to be a commercial system or one tied to a specific institution or company. I am interested in any system, even highly complex ones, such as computer operating systems or server systems. Does the Applied Information Systems department prevent me from doing these things?

I'm spending time learning math through online courses on edX, in the meantime what could I apply to?

I’m currently a mid/senior level in the product design/UX space, and am considering moving into information systems. I love product design, but the direction the field is going with AI has been disheartening, and I’ve been wanting to shift out of a corporate environment and into a less shareholder-based one. Information systems interests me due to the ability to work in other environments (government, school, etc) and due to a lot of overlap that exists between UX.

Has anyone here made this kind of switch? I have a liberal arts Bachelor’s degree, and while I have a lot of transferable skills (stakeholder management, design systems, documentation, bridging business and user needs, research), I don’t have any formal education in this field. Has anyone here who has a non-technical undergrad degree done an MIS, and did you feel like it was worth it?

Built a working prototype of my IPCM stack: an end-to-end quantum-to-classical command chain on IBM’s ibm\_marrakesh backend.

The short version: the circuit preserved a compact dominant support family on real hardware, the dominant measured state was decoded into a command token, and that command triggered a live UDP beacon that was successfully received on a second machine. So this was not just a histogram or a sim artifact, it was a real hardware quantum output causing a downstream system event.

I see it as an early command-delivery primitive rather than a finished comms product, but it is a concrete prototype showing quantum output can be turned into actionable system behavior.

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