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by dalke 5256 days ago
Sucks to be you.... or a CS student at UW.

Math has overlaps with CS. There's surely justification for taking extra CS classes as part of your math degree. Data visualization requires knowing some computer graphics (and some art theory), automata theory is very math oriented, numerical methods of course requires programming (but the boring sorts of programming that CS departments don't usually teach).

If you want to go more into sys admin, then does your local math department need help with their system maintenance?

Some universities have a track or certificate in "computational science", and the EE department might also have CS-like courses.

My biggest regret about my undergrad education is that I didn't do a summer internship. Now is the time to apply for this summer; perhaps you'll find something interesting.

You have many options.