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Had to crank it to like 80, but the sharpness is there. From what I've read online, people are saying the monitor is kind of warm (as in the whitepoint) out of the box. Adjusting the color setting helped with the color shifted text I was referring to in the OP. Thanks for the help.

Thank you so much for your reply as well as others. I may go the 3770K + 1080Ti route.

You do typing and coding, so I'd recommend browns over the Razer switches or reds. Personally the Strafe RGB  with browns, unless you like the raised key and aluminum chassis look of the K70, and don't care about the static lights.

Oh, and a part of your post that I missed: You stated you don't like reds. Silent and speed switches are effectively reds in terms of feel and lightness. Silent feels just a hair lighter than reds and are very smooth, and "Speed" (Cherry MX Silver) are a much faster, version of reds. So stay away from those. Blues are actually rather close to browns, but blues make more of a click noise loosely similar to Razer switches in terms of sound but effectively browns in terms of feel.

I really thought it was a decently cool video. I understand the points some are making, but it's very situational. There's nothing in the video trying to get you to buy all 5 products at once. For example, I see the uses of the Bose headphones, and understand where the logic came from in recommending them, but it's just not applicable to my situation as the dorm walls in my building are actually decently soundproof, so I can get away with not having noise cancelling headphones. 
 
This video was just a recommendation of some products that people in a certain situation may find useful. 

A real world example could be designing a tailored system for a business' needs. For example say a car company needs a specialized computer as part of their new car system. It's up to the systems engineers to design and develop a system to suit this company's needs.

So your freshman year, expect an intro to computer programming course, and an intro to engineering course. Basically these serve to introduce you to building things, as well as the basics of programming. As a systems engineer, you don't need a lot of programming knowledge, certainly not as much as a software engineer. 
 
Anyway, the formal definition of what we do is "Combine knowledge of hardware, software, circuits, and math to evaluate or develop and design computing systems". Another big aspect of the field is how this computing system fits and works in the professional field. 
 
Jobs look like designers of new systems, some can have a decent time into network security, database construction or management, just to name a few. It's a very broad field compared to the others.