In my experience open access still includes a big publisher sucking up tons of money. It is just money paid up front by authors. Do you have an example of open access were that is not the case?
Some disciplines have started moving to Arxiv. And all the major programming languages conferences (PLDI, POPL, ICFP, more) switched to PACMPL, which is open acess and I expect is cheaper but am not sure how to check. I don't know much about this; mostly just wanted to make the point that peer review != publishing.
This is such a generalization that I deem it devoid of value. Besides the fact that not all hiring decisions happen that way, R1 institutions are not the only ones around. If you have a passion for teaching and want to stay engaged in research, there are other options like primarily undergraduate institutions. There are good reasons to prefer industrial posts to academia, and vice versa.
I found these by searching and exploring and in my opinion they are good games for mobile (Android):
* Retro Bowl and others by the same dev
* Rusted Warfare for an RTS.
* Spent many hours on Andors Trail before reaching the current end
* Euclidea is fun if you are geometrically inclined
I would love to understand more what limitations you faced with GSheets that are non-existent in Excel. I used to think the same but then I built some pretty complex computations in GSheets that I could not easily replicate in Excel. And U have built some complex stuff in both.
As a professor of none-software engineering, I can tell you that most engineering students that graduate have similar feelings. You have just been exposed to a bunch of topics in CS at various depths. You now know what you know (not much) and what you don't. You are well prepared to learn.
