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Checking in. Despite my lack of work / life balance, still not Dead. My Wife however, does not recognize who I am. Still at Full Time Job #1. Still at Paid Internship 3 days a week and making more at Internship than at Full Time Job. Digital Fabrication: A Micro Electronics Engineering: A Digital Electronics: B (1 Point from an A. Bullshit.) Intro CADD Class: A Bullshit 3D Printing Class: A Dean's List Status preserved for another Semester. Yay. Time to take 2 months off and make some money and sleep. Now where is the beer? MrDesaude fucked around with this message at 22:41 on May 26, 2019 |
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I keep getting emails that I'm on the presidents list or whatever. The funniest was when I got a letter saying I was on the college president's list while I was still on academic suspension.
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# ? May 26, 2019 23:17 |
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Cojawfee posted:I keep getting emails that I'm on the presidents list or whatever. The funniest was when I got a letter saying I was on the college president's list while I was still on academic suspension. lol I got that too. It’s a meaningless distinction.
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# ? May 26, 2019 23:29 |
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I had to abandon an email address because of some of that poo poo. It's a mailing list they used to organize stuff for students in one particular program but it's not all coming from specific addresses. I guess it's an excel sheet or text file or something that everyone passes around in that program and whenever it's time to organize something they copy/paste and blast an email out to everyone abut whatever it is they're organizing. Every single time there's a dozen or so reply all responses asking to be taken off the list. It never works, presumably because whatever intern got handed the list just doesn't give a poo poo to go back and look through the list to take people off. I just stopped trying after the second year past my graduation. It was a mostly disposable address I made for school stuff anyway so gently caress it, done.
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I have an undergrad geology degree from a big research university now. Final overall GPA is 2.5. It seems from the job ads that I have just spent 4 years loving my life up. I don't know why I came here. I'm going to empty some CDs to buy a car this week so I can try to find work. I've been looking at retarded clickbait lists of affordable cities for recent grads. One recommended Denver, Seattle, and San Diego lmao I think I'm gonna buy a handgun along with the car. I don't really see the next five or ten years going any better.
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Hey buddy, it's never the end of the road. I'm currently on my third go at being an adult. While you might not be able to get a job doing exactly what you want, just having a degree at all opens a bunch more doors than not having one.
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:I have an undergrad geology degree from a big research university now. Final overall GPA is 2.5. It seems from the job ads that I have just spent 4 years loving my life up. I don't know why I came here. I'm going to empty some CDs to buy a car this week so I can try to find work. I've been looking at retarded clickbait lists of affordable cities for recent grads. One recommended Denver, Seattle, and San Diego lmao Besides it being Bakersfield, have you looked into state jobs with the state's Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources? I went to a geology panel talk earlier this semester for the free food (Fuckin Subway ) and a guy who runs part of that area was saying they always look for people.
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:I have an undergrad geology degree from a big research university now. Final overall GPA is 2.5. It seems from the job ads that I have just spent 4 years loving my life up. I don't know why I came here. I'm going to empty some CDs to buy a car this week so I can try to find work. I've been looking at retarded clickbait lists of affordable cities for recent grads. One recommended Denver, Seattle, and San Diego lmao There is plenty of work you can get outside your field while you look for a real job placement. You in town still? We could hang. I don't have PMs but my email is in my profile. Also your GPA is not the end all be all selector for success that people in academia make it out to be. It is a means of differentiating between similar applicants but there is way more than one way to skin a cat and there are tons of ways into a desired job field that don't necessarily follow the typical 4 year college degree -> entry level position and beyond. You have the degree. There are ways to find work that might not be readily apparent to you but that's the entire reason schools dedicate so many resources to career counselors. Kawasaki Nun fucked around with this message at 19:35 on May 27, 2019 |
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:I have an undergrad geology degree from a big research university now. Final overall GPA is 2.5. It seems from the job ads that I have just spent 4 years loving my life up. I don't know why I came here. I'm going to empty some CDs to buy a car this week so I can try to find work. I've been looking at retarded clickbait lists of affordable cities for recent grads. One recommended Denver, Seattle, and San Diego lmao I had nothing from graduating this past December until April when I landed a sweet entry level gig w/ pretty decent pay that should set me up for future success in my field. On top of that I've had a bunch of referrals to federal jobs that I declined because the pay was like 10-15k per year lower. Keep your head up, I went from zero bites to an avalanche of opportunity out of nowhere. FWIW I have an OK GPA (3.28 overall) and don't even bother putting it down, doesn't seem to really matter.
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:I have an undergrad geology degree from a big research university now. Final overall GPA is 2.5. It seems from the job ads that I have just spent 4 years loving my life up. I don't know why I came here. I'm going to empty some CDs to buy a car this week so I can try to find work. I've been looking at retarded clickbait lists of affordable cities for recent grads. One recommended Denver, Seattle, and San Diego lmao Job hunting: No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no No no no no no no no no no no yes
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Last day of class done, partner successfully defended Monday. All that's left is to touch up two small papers that are almost done, take a one hour final on Wednesday and touch up some figures and add a little to my capstone before submitting. Cant believe it's been two years, I'm going to miss this. I was a little disappointed I'm going to graduate with a 3.5 but my adviser complimented me on not avoiding hard classes so I'll live with it. 8 days till I collect my MBA and MS in Engineering Management!
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if you sacrifice an annoying phd to satan can you get course credit in exchange asking for a friend
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Dropped a letter from doc off w my advisor to get my medhold lifted. Looking forward to picking out my classes and doing it right this time.
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Been shooting off applications to places I have no real hope of getting. Got a response for an interview and even though its an online one, Im super excited I at least got a response. I dont think Ill get the job but its nice to make it past the 'not good enough to get replied to' phase.
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Took my last final today, probably failed it pretty hard but I lost interest completely in the second half when I realized she was only focused on math and not fundamentals like proper application or context. Now I know where poo poo engineering design comes from. I kinda want to fix my report and submit it to our digital commons but I'm really burned out so I'll probably just spend the next two weeks going to the gym and yoga and drinking before I worry about a job.
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lightpole posted:I lost interest completely in the second half when I realized she was only focused on math and not fundamentals like proper application or context. Now I know where poo poo engineering design comes from. My favorite go to example was one that infuriated me. Course description: Introduction to digital integrated circuits and the variety of applications. Course as taught and graded: The math of MOSFETs and CMOS at the gate level and nothing but the math.
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I got the GMAT requirement waived, and if the dean accepts my package today, i’ll be starting grad school in a few weeks.
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M_Gargantua posted:
Maybe it's just a requirement to not actually teach that class. My professor would regularly end the class an hour early and then we didn't even cover the last third of the syllabus.
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I think its a side effect of "Hmm your post doc research involves circuits right? Here teach this class" with no additional foresight, planning, or standards.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I got the GMAT requirement waived, and if the dean accepts my package today, i’ll be starting grad school in a few weeks. Noice
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Vasudus posted:Ok gents, I've been doing a lot of interviews lately on both sides of the table, for reasons I can explain later. I've helped enough people / answered questions / etc. enough in the past few months about this that I should probably make a full and proper effortpost about it, since a lot of goons seem to be getting done with school and starting to enter the proper educated workforce. I'm putting it in this thread because it's a better place for it than the regular chat thread. Quoting so I can find it later.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I got the GMAT requirement waived, and if the dean accepts my package today, i’ll be starting grad school in a few weeks. Congratulations and condolences. M_Gargantua posted:
EE? Cause mine was computational intelligence where all she cared about was how to update the weights while we learned how to write code and create a neural network on our own. It was a complete waste of time and our research projects were garbage. Just because I can feed chaos into a mathematical equation and it finds a pattern, it doesnt mean any conclusions are valid.
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I just hope I can find a better career as an financial analyst or compliance officer than I have as an attorney. e: just received formal acceptance. Mr. Nice! fucked around with this message at 21:33 on Jun 13, 2019 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I just hope I can find a better career as an financial analyst or compliance officer than I have as an attorney.
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Mr. Nice! posted:I just hope I can find a better career as an financial analyst or compliance officer than I have as an attorney. go get 'em buddy
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Not cool. I mean, I laughed, but still...harsh.
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bird food bathtub posted:Not cool. I mean, I laughed, but still...harsh. Same.
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Hitting below the belt imo
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Decided I'm going to do something useful over my summer break during my MSW program: Study for the GRE and apply at a couple of PhD programs here. Yes, I am a glutton for punishment, why do you ask?
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Officially accepted. I start my MSF next week.
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Mr. Nice! posted:Officially accepted. I start my MSF next week. Congratulations! Edit: missed this I want to do research and the gaps for veteran mental health and LGBTQ research is massive Nick Soapdish fucked around with this message at 02:32 on Jun 20, 2019 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:Officially accepted. I start my MSF next week. Congrats!
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Meh
GD_American fucked around with this message at 20:32 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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Lovely I get to be the "grad mentor" for a summer intern.
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The Aardvark posted:Lovely I get to be the "grad mentor" for a summer intern. "grad mentor" To my ears that sounds like being a specialist babysitting a detail. Not a lot of work, just boring. Make it engaging, but not something that requires every ounce of your time. Could be worse. As an intern, I just found out that I am teaching an IPC standard prep course for electronics factory people who have been working there and soldering (poorly) for years. The intern that can solder aerospace components gets to teach the "I didn't need a fancy college degree to get in here" crowd because QA is being flooded with reject boards built by people who do not understand the + and - have to go a certain way for a reason. Actually, I SHOULD get my Trainer certification... I can make good money on that...
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MrDesaude posted:"grad mentor" We only have one grad student in the lab but she's always out at a different institution since they have a Cryo EM and we don't. As I am the undergrad with the most experience in the lab (1.5 years), I get the intern. Intern comes from a private school where they never had to make solutions in gen chem labs as chem majors, every thing was pre-made. They're going into their senior year this fall and struggled making a 50 mM HEPES buffer and titrating it from ph ~10 to 7.5. So yeah, babysitting hours. At least my projects this summer are really repetitive and mindless for now. The Aardvark fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Jun 22, 2019 |
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The Aardvark posted:We only have one grad student in the lab but she's always out at a different institution since they have a Cryo EM and we don't. As I am the undergrad with the most experience in the lab (1.5 years), I get the intern. Yikes. I'm taking my 5 Credits of gen Chem this semester. I am not looking forward to it... My problem is having to deal with people 10-20 years older than me thinking their years of experience soldering bad solder joints trump my 2 years experience and quality certifications in making aerospace quality electronics. You would think that if people have done this kind of work long enough, they would be better at it.
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(Biased) but chemistry is great. Looking back at it, the best way I view learning chemistry as a new person to it is to treat it much more modular than say physics or math. There are components that cross from module to module, but it's not really the continuous construction of ideas until (if) you get out of gen chem and ochem. One semester from my B.S. in chemistry, I now see it all as how electrons move and interact, but that took a while to get to. I'm almost caught up to where I should have been on Thursday for one of my projects now. Nothing like doing computational work for biochemistry. The Aardvark fucked around with this message at 07:55 on Jun 23, 2019 |
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