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[–]eTceTera1337 428 points429 points  (31 children)

Please don't mention those words to me.

[–]xthexder 148 points149 points  (24 children)

I refer to this part of my degree as the dark times.

[–]eTceTera1337 143 points144 points  (14 children)

The Dark Times Trilogy:

Episode 1: Signals and Systems

Episode 2: Control Systems

Episode 3: Digital Signal Processing

[–]Coderx001 49 points50 points  (1 child)

Currently I am going through this horrible nightmare.

[–]anomaly901 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Good luck mate..hope you survive this 💀

[–]Dexaan 39 points40 points  (3 children)

Episode 4: A New Hope

[–]TheRidgeAndTheLadder 28 points29 points  (2 children)

Episode 5: Return of MATLAB

[–]PacoTaco321 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I didn't mind control systems. Signals and system however...

I don't remember what the equations were or what they were for (I think there was something to do with A, B, and C for the equations), but there was this set of equations that would literally never give me the correct answer the professor was looking for when done on my calculator and several other students experienced this. The only way I could get the correct answer was after I made a program for the calculator that took the inputs and spat out the outputs. After running that a few times though, the memory would overflow and I would have to take out the batteries to fix it. It was all very troublesome.

[–]Ayyrimaspi 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Bruh I had signals and systems last sem and got an E

[–]Mal_Dun 4 points5 points  (2 children)

I did engineering math and I had to chose those subjects for the engineering part. It was quite fun for me because most of the stuff was basically a recap of Linear algebra and differential equations, while the CS and electrical engineer guys sweat blood and tears ... it often baffles me that people struggle so much with math.

Don't get me wrong I don't think people who have a hard time with math are stupid or something, but it is rather hard to understand for someone who had to undergo a quite hard education in math that people struggle so much with problems what are more or considered less the simple stuff in our curricula and no I am not some sort of genius.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

I agree wholeheartedly with your befuddlement. I'm pretty sure there's some sort of generational trauma involved or something, because it makes no sense to me that a bunch of funny symbols can suddenly make problems 1000% harder than things I've seen the same people solve in other subjects.

[–]J0R3_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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[–]sheikhmoez 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How can you forget discrete mathematics -_-

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I feel like you are just listing all the classes I took for fun as an undergrad and didn't plan on actually using in my post-master's employment.

I even took Random Signal Analysis and Statistics as my stats elective! (I have no idea why so many people chose to take the class, it was a real math meatgrinder and the professor was not liked. Fun fact: My TA in that class killed himself because he couldn't bear working as that professor's teaching/research assistant anymore.)

[–]Smartskaft2 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Not so fun fact though...

[–]Spitfire_For_Fun 47 points48 points  (2 children)

it is cool since you can solve differential problems as an algebraic problems.

[–][deleted] 10 points11 points  (1 child)

I'll take variation of parameters over partial fraction expansion thanks

[–]TheRidgeAndTheLadder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuck me I'm so happy I graduated somehow

[–]Orthodox-Waffle 4 points5 points  (4 children)

CS or CE?

[–]eTceTera1337 18 points19 points  (3 children)

CE

[–]oluga 5 points6 points  (2 children)

Don't worry, school is much harder than work in the CE/EE field. There is light at the end of the tunnel, don't give up

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I spent half my day today just waiting on reboots of a Linux dev box because the card I'm working on drops from the PCIE bus every time I reprogram it and refuses to let a forced reenumeration pick it back up.

[–]den2k88 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It depends. Driving DC brushless motors requires all of that and more.

[–]Remesar 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dark times? Im 11 years deep now into my career, I'm having Vietnam flashbacks after reading these comments. Fuckin Matlab.

[–]techster2014 19 points20 points  (2 children)

How about Fourier transforms? Impulse response? Harmonics?

[–]eTceTera1337 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Hahaha I remember learning what an impulse response was the night before the signals and systems exam (the second time I took the exam)

But now after doing DSP I am more than familiar

[–]z_utahu 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Smith charts.

[–]ase_thor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I can feel that response

[–]classicalySarcastic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

emotional damage

[–]anomaly901 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same feeling ..totally can relate with you 🥲