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How you been cook? What have you been up to these couple o' days.

just been getting ass kicked by school man, engineering is rough. I'm doing grown up shit like going to bed at a reasonable time, going to work and actually supervising shit, going to bars with buds and whatnot

when you get older you just kind of realize that you only get so many hours in a day, and in order to make time for the shit you need to do well, you end up running out of time for all the shit you like doing. It kind of reaches a point where you don't even really do anything you want all day; you're just doing shit you need.

plenty of drinking though, that's kind of what keeps you alive

Fine, fine.


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just been getting ass kicked by school man, engineering is rough. I'm doing grown up shit like going to bed at a reasonable time, going to work and actually supervising shit, going to bars with buds and whatnot

when you get older you just kind of realize that you only get so many hours in a day, and in order to make time for the shit you need to do well, you end up running out of time for all the shit you like doing. It kind of reaches a point where you don't even really do anything you want all day; you're just doing shit you need.

plenty of drinking though, that's kind of what keeps you alive

Haha I get what you mean to an extent. To that I say keep doing what you've been doing and good luck with it.

A little curious but what exactly do you do in your engineering class?

well, my current courses are Fluid Mechanics, Material Mechanics, Dynamic Engineering and Differential Equations

just like fuck me man

none of my classes even assign homework. My entire grade is just the 3 tests.

Jeez. Sounds hard as nails.

they really are, like the lectures are so hard to take notes in, because the teacher is just telling you about the subject matter; he's not teaching you. Our teacher was just going on about the properties of crystalline structures in diamonds and shit, and it was really interesting, but you have no idea what to actually write down

Are the tests really specific on stuff that they didn't talk about?

Sounds like a bad teacher at that point. Maybe take notes from a textbook?

the tests are actually really vague

like on physics, the teacher will teach you about gravity

then the test will have you compute the force gravity has on a satellite between two different planets, and it'll tell you how far away the planets are from each other, the asteroid, their mass, and the gravitational constant.

tbh what I've learned to do is just test myself. Follow after class in the lessons and talk to yourself out loud about the material and just grind through problems. You can do a couple in black pen, and then find the solution manual and grade yourself, and notice what you did wrong.

Re-do the ones you got wrong without looking at your answers and see if you keep making the same mistakes. If you do, watch a Youtube video about it and talk to yourself about it.

like, upper-level physics and math is almost entirely conceptual; anybody can compute the area of really complicated shapes; not a lot of people can actually explain why water won't drip out of a thing straw unless somebody blows into it, and actually show the mathematical proofs and work with them to construct hydraulic pumps.

Holy crap. Glad I'm not in those classes. (Yet).


Although it sounds like you're handling yourself pretty well.

dude even doing this I'm barely keeping up. Like, you can't be a jerk-off in Engineering. I have every exam from the last semester that took the classes that I took and I'm already studying for them. Like, you have to aggressively plan how you're going to attack this shit, and give yourself the time to git gud

like, people who are really cool and smart aren't born like that. People that like, never rush do that because they actually plan ahead and leave early, so that they can take their time

if you actually plan way ahead and make sure you're always ahead of the material, life will be a whole lot easier when it matters, and you'll look shit-hot.

I could've been playing Arma 3 for the last 2 hours, but I spent them studying Dynamics because when I stop playing Arma, I haven't really gained anything. When I stop studying dynamics, I actually know shit.

don't sweat it. When you get to this point you'll adapt and you'll be fine. You won't do this until somebody lights a fire under your ass and it'll all work out

when the going gets rough, get weird

Wish I could get incentive to study. I have the most chronic procrastination problem and it's really affecting me. >_<

Can confirm. My bro is also in engineering and his professors don't do shit. Day 1 lecture on the basics. Announces exam in 2 days. Good fucking luck managing your schedule.

Good thing my brother is more diligent than I am with the books hahaha

Speaking of school, I sat in on a MAP testing session for a 5th grade class since they had it in the computer lab where I'm usually working and I couldn't believe how dumb some of these kids are.

One of the questions was 5 pictures of objects - a stop sign, a basketball, a book, a triangle and something else I can't remember. Identify the sphere, it says. She chose the fucking book, the only one that wasn't even a basic shape. Later on it had a basic picture of a sphere and said Identify the Shape, she picked cylinder.

You have 24 apples. Your aunt gives you some more, and now you have 37. How many apples did your aunt give you? Well, you have 37, so obviously she gave you 51 fucking apples

There are 6 dolls for 3 children, each child gets an equal number of dolls. How many dolls does each child get? Did you guess 6? Congratulations, you are apparently just as intelligent as the NWEA expects a 5th grader to be because she got perfectly average scores at the end despite answering 90% of her questions as stupidly as these examples. Blows my fucking mind

I don't see the problem with any of those answers. ;)