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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:fuckkkk APA and its nuisances Google Scholar!!!!!!! Also Vas that was awesome and mostly representative of my Engineering meandering.
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Soulex posted:Heres a question regarding resumes: which has more weight? Experience or degree? Lets say you had two resumes and 1 had the education and the other had the experience. Which wins? I legitimately keep multiple versions of my resume around for this and choose based on what I know about the company. Not necessarily for experience/education stuff but for federal/jobs which require a clearance I go more heavy handed on the military experience, but for engineering jobs I keep the verbage much more terse and go heavier on my industry experience. Also, a particular point id like to agree with Vas about is taking interviews as practice even if you aren't 100% job searching. Much more comfortable with the boiler plate HR questions, and you have a much better feel if an interview is going well or not. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 11:41 on Oct 5, 2018 |
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I play Powerball so I can dream about getting a PhD at School of Mines and just hanging out in the foothills for a few years.
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a cool fox posted:To each their own, I really prefer Montana and Wyoming and Washington foothills/mountains, to say nothing of New Mexico. Colorado kind of soured on me largely as a function of meeting boring potheads (but I’m sure Mines won’t va r that issue as bad!) It's more just what I know of Civ E programs At School of Mines. I love Montana, would be totally okay hanging out in a circle between Missoula and the Palouse.
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Grem posted:Hi guys I went to Metropolitan State University of Denver. May I join in on your conversation? Well Denver is awesome (but expensive *sad face*) so of course! Denver Biscuit Company top 5 biscuit by the way. 1. Southern Grandma 2. Tudors 3. Denver Biscuit Company 4. Wawa 5. Chick-fil-A
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*turning in homework late pre military* Whatev its fine *turning in a single homework assignment for all classes late in a semester post military* Good Afternoon Dr. Professor, I got you this single malt and this deeply heartfelt card. I am extremely apologetic that I read this deadline wrong. Please do not put this on my permanent record.
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MrDesaude posted:We take the Uniform off, but it never leaves... I turned it in two days late today and he's like "You know I'm going to have to mark soooome points for this" and I had to stop him and go, "I messed up, your policy is in the syllabus, I'm not making excuses for not looking at my calendar which has all of this CLEARLY laid out". Meanwhile, I am taking a sick day from work tomorrow to sit in my pajamas and do a take home midterm.
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MrDesaude posted:Ouch. Fortunately for me, I handled my midterms last week. That magical moment known as "Oh, wow, I'm like three weeks ahead"
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It's time for the standard fuuuuuuuuuuck finals week. Exam, quiz, Term Paper, Presentation, Take Home Final. Busy two weeks. Beats the hot water heater breaking during Spring finals.
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Legitimately might have just taken a 35% on an exam. Be proactive kids!
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Nick Soapdish posted:
I've done well enough the rest of the semester, just left too much until the last second and bombed spectacularly. Hopefully lesson learned.
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Going to law school seems like a baller move if you neither have to chase cases or pay for the loan afterwords. E: Also my poor exam performance ended up only getting me an 80. The main negative impact is that the professor stated in the Syllabus that if you're averaging a 93 going into the final you are exempt so guess who bought themselves more work this week SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Dec 9, 2018 |
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The Aardvark posted:Inorganic goes into depth on a lot of gen chem stuff like molecular orbital theory and types of bonds (sigma-sigma, pi-sigma, etc), but focuses on the behavior of transition metal complexes, bonding with d orbitals, reactions of metals, etc. gently caress every last bit of that
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EBB posted:Officially halfway done with my program. Another year-ish I can tack some fancier letters next to my name and ask for more money. Same fam 
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DownByTheWooter posted:This spring and summer I take some more field courses and physics II and then I can graduate with my BA in geology. It looks like a lot of the entry-level bachelor's degree level work for geologists is in environmental-type stuff, so I'm taking field hydrogeology. I guess this summer or fall I should try to get the OSHA HAZWOPER cert and try to find a job. A geology buddy of mine did bog turtle surveys for a couple of years and then got a really nice job. I did a bunch of bridge inspections and now my MO is mostly CADD and Highway Design. In Env Eng/Civil Eng/Geology you really just need to get your foot in the door somewhere and figure out on the fly what part of the work you enjoy and then focus on it. Just focus in your interview prep of finding people that you can work with and for and the rest will work itself out.
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DoktorLoken posted:Yeah same, there's a Wisconsin GI Bill that I have 60 or so credits left on, good for any level of education at any state university. I also have a handful of months (8 off the top of my head) of 60% Post 9/11 remaining that I'd have to use with the WI GI Bill unless I can find something else to use it on first. Leftover hours from my BS is the only reason that im working on my MSCE.
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Lets Get Patchy posted:Wait a second, they pay for certs too? Well they do, although in this instance I was referring to MS Civil Engineering.
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DoktorLoken posted:So more murky, diving into my unofficial academic requirements report it looks like only lower level gen ed classes require a C or better (I had some classes that didn't count as a transfer because they were a C-). For my major/department you need a 2.5 average GPA on all classes of which I'm above a 3.0 overall so maybe I'll be fine with a C- in this class? It doesn't list a specific letter grade requirement for any individual class for courses in the major. Oh this isn't one of your major classes? Then yeah you should only need a D. The only classes I needed a C for were my core Civ Eng classes.
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Cojawfee posted:I randomly got 600 dollars at the end of December. Not sure why. I get something in the mail yesterday about a Housing Allowance adjustment effective August 1. It didn't say anything about back pay but it was implied.
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Kawasaki Nun posted:lol forever war GI Bill God willing
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DoktorLoken posted:I'm just wondering how long it'll take to post my degree on my transcript (obviously the diploma won't come until later). I won't believe it until I see it. It wasn't more than a couple of weeks. I had to get my graduation to post to my transcript in order to get my EIT cert certified. I graduated the first week of May and I got my cert by the end of the month and I think it was dated the 15th. I'd have to look when I go to work tomorrow. And yeah, I think it was the second week of June when I got my diploma. lightpole posted:What do you not have experience in? Have you taken business/entrepreneurship classes? Does your school give access to startup stuff? Are there any business oriented contests? What do you need to move forward with your plan? I highly encourage not waiving the PE credits.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:When do you usually see BAH and book stipends pay out? I just finished my first week of school and already had to lay out $789 for books.. so I’m really rather curious as to when I can expect to see the money come in. This is my first time using Post 9/11 GI bill- if that matters for whatever reason. My monthly disability funbux paid out on time but nothing else has. Should I just expect it to happen randomly and without rhyme or reason? Are they just letting chaos reign down at the VA during the shutdown? BAH on the last business day of the month. I usually get the book stipend right around the first BAH payment of the semester.
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DoktorLoken posted:
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Triggs posted:So I'm aiming to get my masters at NYU but I don't think my current ETS date (21 June) facilitates getting all of my GI Bill benefits. Normally I'd call and ask but since I'm deployed do any of you guys know how it works to get full BAH while enrolled? Basically, the program starts in May so I would assume I still get my Ft. Campbell BAH until I ETS, after which I would start getting NYC BAH so long as I tell the VA that I'm living/working in the city. I honestly don't think you can get BAH on the GI Bill if you haven't separated yet.
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It may be common sense for some people, but I've never heard an answer for it: I only signed up for 3 grad credits this semester and while I think I knew that less than half-time wasn't eligible for BAH, I was curious how it would effect my remaining benefits. I got my cert letter from the VA today that only charged me a month and a half. I'm kind of balancing my last few months of Chap 33, so just an FYI for those of you further out.
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Civil Engineering Graduate classes are great because your books are just industry standards that you have to have for the licensing exam anyways.
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I left for the Navy during first semester of what would have been senior year. I had to jump back in at Diff Eq's and Multi-variable and there is 0 chance I would have succeeded without the people at Everett (WA) CC being good at their jobs. Otherwise I would have came back to Penn State and had another junior math prof that didn't give a poo poo and who knows what would have happened.
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GD_American posted:I'm applying for a DoD job (Corps of Engineers) and I'm unsure about my resume; I've got my USAJobs profile and my basic one-pager that I keep updated. We actually don't need resumes in my agency (they've got a proprietary form), so I haven't hosed around with making a new one in about 5 years. The only difference between my fed resume and my "everything else" resume is that I had to put my average hours per week on my fed one. I never have been offered a fed job, but I've applied for a couple (Probably with Army Corps, I am a Civ Eng after all), YMMV. e: As for the minor bit, I've found its only really useful if you are applying for a job outside of your current career path to show that you have dedicated interest in both. I focused on two different Civil Engineer career paths in undergrad and used it to basically not get type cast within the industry. SquirrelyPSU fucked around with this message at 20:02 on Mar 10, 2019 |
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To add to Thermo chat, my experience was that if you did not handle Diff Eq's well, you did not handle Thermo well. IIRC, every topic that semester was "Ok, here is the Heat Equation, and here are the simplifications that we are going to make to it and now we are going to perform the partial integration of it". My professor was a younger woman mechanical engineer from Clemson who worked in the Applied Research Lab at PSU and was cool as poo poo. One of my more favorite non-Civ E courses.
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The Aardvark posted:Tentative final semester classes: You are insane.
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lightpole posted:Not gonna lie, I might be panicking a bit since the conclusion to my capstone is based off the properties of viscoelastic materials and those are apparently really loving complex and even the materials engineers barely touch them. The chem PhD whose 500 level rheology lecture I'm sitting in on tomorrow doesnt even go half as complex as I need, plus he is focused mostly on paints instead of, say, thermoplastic polyurethane ironed onto a fabric and subjected to cyclic loading. Wait, why are you panicking when it seems like most of your faculty is below your knowledge level?
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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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MrDesaude posted:"grad mentor" Get it now and don't tell anyone about it for like five years.
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Yeah that's more what I was alluding to. I can only imagine what bs training is full time, but I enjoy it in the one day spurts I do like every six months. Keeps my core technical skills sharp to be able to communicate what I actually do to others.
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McNally posted:So the good news is that, if push comes to shove, I can file a FAFSA and get a student loan for whatever the GI Bill won't pay for my master's program. Money doesn't buy happiness, but if you're working on top of going to school, it acts as a lubricant for the amplified stresses of both. After two decades of trying to figure it out, I would advocate to not stress about money if you are at all interested in the program that you are persuing. Student loans aren't the devil, just a pain in the rear end if wrongly used.
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Nick Soapdish posted:https://www.militarytimes.com/news/2019/09/03/court-ruling-could-give-veterans-an-extra-year-of-gi-bill-benefits/ I'm going to laugh my rear end off in the Spring when I finish my Post 9-11 Bennie's and I get an email telling "NO WAIT HERES MORE FREE MONEY". (finishing an MS Civil Engineering currently).
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I posted this in another thread, but I just realized this morning that I'm probably going to graduate with like a month and a half of benefits left and it just doesn't feel right.
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Ken Bone Comeback posted:You should have just taken Calculus II three times and Phys I and II each twice like I did and you wouldn't have that problem Well I did, but that was before the military lol
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Flying_Crab posted:I've got 15 months and some days left of Post 9/11, what's that wind up as in grad school semesters? I think that's about what I had going into it. They do scale the time based on if you are going full-time or not. I originally just thought they bill you for 4 months full-time, part-time, whatever. That is certainly not the case, even though noone has been able to explain to me the math. I just know what my benefit months remaining are semester to semester. I think my credits per semester have been 9-7-6-3-3-3 and then will be finishing with 1-1.
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