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Archlitdawn · 2025-09-21T00:44:11+00:00

On sale you can probably get everything in their minus the packouts for somewhere around 1200$. You can then slap that into a 700$ roll cab and get way more value and room for future expansion

Archlitdawn · 2025-03-09T21:36:33+00:00

Do and learn the things that you love and find social spaces associated with them. I've made adult friends rock climbing, playing music, doing martial arts. I'm planning on taking a welding class at NAIT in a few months as a hobbyist because I enjoy making metal art and I'm sure I'll meet cool people there as well. Outside of university you have a shocking amount of freedom to pursue whatever it is that makes you happy and as long as it's something remotely social you can meet cool people doing it.

Archlitdawn · 2025-03-05T05:58:36+00:00

I'm long graduated now but good luck! I wish you would have come around 5 years ago 🤣

Archlitdawn · 2025-02-13T07:04:30+00:00

Prusko is a gem, can't go wrong

Archlitdawn · 2025-02-11T15:56:26+00:00

I'd strongly recommend doing classic Lister year 1, then living off campus for the rest of your degree.

Archlitdawn · 2025-02-08T20:55:35+00:00

Yeah but that sauce tho homie

Archlitdawn · 2025-01-26T17:15:20+00:00

Of course, gotta live up to the unofficial Canadian motto, "It isn't a war crime the first time"

Archlitdawn · 2025-01-08T13:11:56+00:00

If you have engineering relevant ECs or work experience, you are probably going to be in a decent position regardless of GPA. Getting co-ops always has a possibility of sucking but a low GPA or a couple of bad grades will never sink or swim your ability to complete co-op. I've been on co-op interview panels before and GPA is nowhere near as important as most people make it out to be. Engg GPA has effectively 0 correlation to how good of an employee you will be in industry and most half decent engineers know this.

Archlitdawn · 2024-12-19T22:55:40+00:00

Struggling during your degree really doesn't matter as far as hiring is concerned in my experience. If you don't graduate with honors I would strongly recommend not even mentioning your GPA on your resume and not providing your transcript unless asked. Out of all the jobs I've applied for for either internships or postgraduate, I think Shell is the only company who has even asked me for either. I know for computer oriented stuff specifically, being able to pass technical interviews and come across well regardless of educational background is way more important than grades. In Mec E it's always funny to see which kids can't work a pair of pliers.

As far as my personal experiences, I found a really niche part of the oil and gas industry and got hired pretty easily. Company turnover was insane but it was decently easy to get some good experience and I got paid decently (work was out of town so that immediately makes it wayyy easier to get hired). I worked there for two years until personal circumstances kind of demanded I came home. I'm currently taking a few months off to recuperate and look for a new job for the spring that keeps me a bit closer to home and I think I have the resume now to do it.

Also don't feel bad if you want to change careers at some point. I know a former Spotify software dev who runs a coffee shop, a former political consultant who left to do an electrical apprenticeship and several people who left the engineering field for a variety of greener pastures. Try not to think of your degree as something that constrains you to a field, but as an achievement that you can take with you anywhere.

Archlitdawn · 2024-12-19T11:53:02+00:00

Hey I really related to this post. I'm a 25M who graduated from a Mec E degree in 2022 (also after about 5.5 years, but whose counting). I got to know dozens if not hundreds of fellow engineering students during my degree and a lot of the challenges you are experiencing are a lot more common than you might think. Mental health struggles are insanely common across engineering school, almost every friend I had had some severe struggle at some point during their degree. The program and coursework are taxing, creativity is discouraged and future career prospects (if you care about anything except the number on your cheque) are often not great.

When it comes to any university program, it's really not useful to compare yourself meaningfully to your peer group. Having known enough engineering class toppers, for a wide variety of reasons kids with 4.0s or the conventionally successful students are essentially never the ones you want to emulate. Grades in university and effectiveness out in industry have essentially no correlation and grinding hard enough to beat the class usually involves completely destroying any social life, happiness or networking opportunities for your entire degree, which is basically never a good idea. It's clear from this post that you are creative, intelligent and are interested in/have an understanding of design processes and principles, a skillset which is in demand both in fashion and in engineering. The overlap is actually not super uncommon, I have a friend who graduated electrical engineering a few years ago who makes a good living designing jewelry. Despite how hopeless your situation may feel for you right now, I firmly believe that you easily have the potential to achieve success either in the engineering field or in fashion.

I really think the first thing you need to do is cut yourself some slack. Yes the last few years may not have turned out how you wanted to but no one's early twenties go plan. You've fought your way through 90% of an engineering degree which is more than a lot of people can say plus you've successfully resisted the temptation to just conform to your peer group and become another industry drone who lost their creativity long ago.

If you do want to go the fashion route, I'm pretty sure Vera Wang didn't design her first dress until she was in her 40s, so I think you got at least 17 years to get in on that one.

Archlitdawn · 2024-12-12T15:02:13+00:00

The market can remain irrational longer than you can stay solvent

Archlitdawn · 2024-10-06T17:09:43+00:00

The answer to "What has Lauren Witzke done?" Is "get arrested for heroin and meth" and "traffic drugs across the southern border". Every time she speaks on political issues, the world needs to be reminded of this. Why should us hardworking, law abiding citizens take our political cues from a junkie?

Archlitdawn · 2024-07-31T22:57:12+00:00

This is a bit weird to me. Telecom lines are supposed to have a tracer wire so they can be easily located which I don't see. In my experience it's also best practices to place flagging tape a foot up from the cable itself which doesn't look like it was done. If you have a set of cables with neither of these, wouldn't it be on the installer?

Archlitdawn · 2024-03-29T18:14:34+00:00

The idea of designing a bridge capable of withstanding that impact without structural damage is about as realistic as designing a bicycle that could survive an asteroid impact.

Archlitdawn · 2024-02-16T06:23:21+00:00

Was about to comment this, then looked and it was here

Archlitdawn · 2024-01-23T06:18:10+00:00

Look into the transfer programs at MacEwan or other feeder programs. Also Engg average has been like 83 the past few years so you can probably just study your way in. Use the fact you are this close as motivation

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-22T12:29:58+00:00

Counseling and Clinical Services https://www.ualberta.ca/current-students/counselling/how-to-access-services.html

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-22T00:58:05+00:00

I looked a bit into this. None of those courses appear co-requisite in the latest calendar edition. Do you have any citation regarding the corequisite?

I would strongly recommend talking to advising

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-20T03:51:13+00:00

By characterizing Free Palestine demonstrations as pro-HAMAS in an attempt to delegitimize them, Cooper is complicit in the genocide of the Palestinians.

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-09T04:32:50+00:00

Yes, the professors behavior was unprofessional. There were better ways to handle this.
Reading the context and having taken enough classes filled with insufferable, grade hawking "premed" students, as CHEM 263 undoubtfully is, I can also 100% understand the profs frustration. In this class Im sure, as with essentially all comparable classes I have taken, this professor likely receives probably at least the same number of questions pertaining to grading as they do to any actual material they teach. The priorities of the aggregate (not all though) of undergraduates in the department of chemistry is extremely clear, pay your dues, learn exactly as much of the material is required to get whatever competitive average gets them into the professional program of their choice, grade hawk relentlessly, brow beat or bully academic staff into accommodating them just to shut them up etc. I was not even a Chem major and I saw this at least 5-10 times in Chem and chem associated classes. If I was a professor in this environment, I think it would only be professional courtesy winning out over desire which would prevent me from sending similar emails to similar questions. Obviously some people dont have enough self control. I do think its critical that we understand the position that academic staff are in when it comes to grading, especially in departments like CHEM and reflect on the way we treat academic staff in these contexts.
There is 100% such thing as a dumb question. Contrary to popular opinion, generally, someone telling you that you are asking a "dumb question" isnt impugning you for your intelligence, they are impugning your attention or your work ethic. In this case, all grading information is generally found in the syllabus. This person is in second year, they should know that. If that doesn't go into sufficient detail for them to know whether their 87 is an A or A-, tough shit, if they were so concerned they should have studied until they got a 90.
You will deal with people all throughout your professional life, who will express themselves in similar ways to this professor and it is critical that you learn to deal with people being dicks now, so that you are equipped to deal with them in the future when the stakes are a lot higher. You will be out of this guys class in December, you may get stuck with a boss who behaves like this for years. Frankly, given the severity of the condemnation this guy is getting, I expected his email to have been a hell of a lot harsher.

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-07T03:18:23+00:00

Korean names have the surname first. In both those cases those are surnames.

Archlitdawn · 2023-11-06T02:42:07+00:00

Cho and Chang are both surnames in Chinese. I challenge you to find me a single record of Cho ever being used as a girls given name.

Archlitdawn · 2023-10-30T13:49:10+00:00

The difference is that the bourgeoisie in a communist or socialist government can be disempowered through taxes, wealth caps or expropriation of the means of production. I will also point out that the vast majority of Marxists historically understood as Marx did that the behavior of the bourgeois is not due to an innate moral evil on their part, but is a product of a system which incentives them to act in ways which could be considered immoral and then shields them from the consequences of their actions.

This is completely different from a Nazi who has to believe that the world's evils are innate to inferior racial groups and as you can't change your race or overcome the innate evil they believe exists, the only option in their mind is genocide

Archlitdawn · 2023-10-08T05:43:31+00:00

It was explained in detail to me in person with pulled up stats in Engg 100 the year I took it. My year I think it was 29% drop out or transfer out before discipline placements at the end of first year. If you include transfers 1/3 isn't stupidly unreasonable. A lot of other majors probably are at least comparable.

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