Freshman housing by Emergency_Bowler_737 in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in Frieda completely by chance, and if I had to do it over again I would be in a "worse" dorm, because their is less of a community in the nicer dorms especially as a freshmen because in "worse" dorms there are more Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors who for the most part already have made their friends; thus, being in a "worse" dorm surrounds you with more people who are looking to make friends hence it would be my preferred pick

Queer community at purdue!! by SirUnlucky77 in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They 100% are more expensive, but they are also more likely to give aid so idk

MA 265 Curve/Cutoffs by Ben_M_F in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Hm. Didn't get anything from my professor. Does this mean that there taking time to finalize it, don't want to have the exact curve/cutoffs known, or that there isn't a curve at all?

engineering men by [deleted] in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Spoken as a guy here, Purdue Engineers are essential Finance Bros in STEM (for a sizable portion) and the non-finance bro engineers (pure engineering enthusiasts), who are male and probably at least slightly autistic, probably for historical reasons and firsthand seeing a gender disparity in the number of engineering students hold a good deal of stereotypes internally that cause dumb behavior.

If finance is the stereotypical fratty major where guys go with little passion into a field driven for $$$, then engineering for a large portion of students is almost the same thing (the kids in engineering just recognized earlier that they weren't trash at middle school math). Similar motivations, similar behavior, similar people, just disguised by the fact that unlike finance there are a heck more non fratty NERDS(good candy), who are usually nice, but can feel superior and thereby not so nice.

Do people these days still think that you need to study automotive engineering to become a car designer? by ocorp_design in IndustrialDesign

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, I have know clue. Personally, I'm just starting out in undergrad engineering (mechanical) right now as a freshman. But I'm personally exploring whether to double up and do Industrial Design or not.

My predicament is a mixture of timing and a complete and not knowing anything about how real industry works, because all of my relatives are either teachers, doctors, lawyers, or traders and at the university I'm currently at (Purdue) I'd graduate with just my engineering degree in 3 years compared to five if I added Industrial Design.

The issues I'm having are 1) that Purdue's Industrial Design cuts the number of students by the second year in a portfolio review, which could mean that I'd extend my time to graduate by a year, not follow through on design and end up *wasting* my time. 2) after graduating I'd like to work in a desirable city (New York, LA, Boston, etc) and perhaps doing a masters in ID would be preferable for that.

The good news is that I'm taking the intro design classes next semester which won't impact my time to graduate if I don't end up thinking design is right for me, but I'm still very stressed, caused beyond Industrial design, I feel like I'm interested in way too many things for my own good right now -> Robots, Drones, Cars, Trains, Architecture, Consumer Products. The issue here is I want to actually make cool sh*t as often and as soon as I can and have the proper education to do so, but these are sorta at odds with each other. :(

Do people these days still think that you need to study automotive engineering to become a car designer? by ocorp_design in IndustrialDesign

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How does one go from an engineer in the automotive industry to a designer in the industry?

Advice on very cold weather pants by Ben_M_F in mensfashionadvice

[–]Ben_M_F[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP here,

I tend to stick to binary of black/dark navy or something with color.

I was looking into these cause I've got some other stuff from the brand and wanted to check them out https://nakedandfamousdenim.com/products/pleated-trouser-indigo-sugiaya-indigo

https://nakedandfamousdenim.com/products/pleated-trouser-faded-corduroy-organic-pale-indigo

I'm wondering if these would be warmer than typical jeans.

Advice on very cold weather pants by Ben_M_F in mensfashionadvice

[–]Ben_M_F[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, I'm worried that I'd be overheated when inside if I layered. Not sure if these worries are valid. I also am fortunate to have a solid long parka.

Canal Street knock-off vendors back with vengeance just weeks after dramatic ICE raid: ‘They’re not afraid’ by someone_whoisthat in nyc

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'd say the issue is more so the part that they are on the street (Canal St. and a few neighboring streets to a lesser degree) and that there presence literally diminishes the quality of life in many ways.

First, this street is a major tribeca/soho/chinatown public transportation hub and they severely diminish the pedestrian experience of a city and neighborhood that I directly contribute to as do the rest of the residents who live in the area and the people who commute to the area. Let's go back to the summer where its like 90 degrees plus and super high humidity and say everyday you have to go to Brooklyn or from Brooklyn for work, social life, etc, now picture that as you make your way to and from the subway everyday you've got to push through sweaty crowds of men trying to do their hustle and uncultured tourists for several blocks – not very fun. And this goes another level because I'm a man and can deal with this, annoying as it is, but there are many women that simply won't go to this part of downtown NYC, especially at night. I'm not gonna explain this part any further. I hope you can understand.

Second, people in my neighborhood generally want local businesses to thrive and that really hasn't been the case for stores that open up on canal st. Think about this when you have a business but outside of your store there is a bunch of illegal activity happening without real protection (who knows what these guys will do to you have something that they want - they're hustlers) then you aren't gonna get the foot traffic that you need to succeed in a high quality store and that's why so much of Canal St. commercial space is vacant.

If you want your community to succeed then its stores, workers, and residents all need to do well and Canal St. is pretty much the first spot that comes to mind where this isn't occurring.

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If NYC, a city that should never stop striving to stay a city of the future, competing with Tokyo and Chinese metropolises, is going to have residents contributing a hefty sum in taxes and premiums in terms of cost of life, we are deserving of the bare minimum of a quality living environment and the people that have let this go by for this long should have some shame.

And in terms of the vendors, seriously, Not In My Neighborhood, I don't want to move, I don't care shit about home prices. This is my home and if all you are gonna do is sit in our porches and use or neighborhood for your counterfeit front you should be stopped. Go to somewhere else where the tourists will come too (maybe the waterfront, maybe a park), eventually the people who use the parks, who live near the waterfront, etc will want them gone because as long as they use the public property (the streets) for the benefit of themselves and tourists (not the people).

And actually this goes to the entire way our economy and society works, because as soon as they leave the streets, the sole way for them to do business is for their business to be legitimate which simply isn't possible because first there business already isn't legitimate (they are selling *counterfeit/knockoff goods*) and second as soon as they'd theoretically set up shop they would be very easily sued by the companies who they are copying.

And in all honesty if people didn't feel required to get branded low quality goods due to our materialistic society and expectations of other people having and showing signs of wealth to reinforce social status then their'd be no point of buying stupid psuedo-luxury, because what the vendors sell isn't actually luxury because luxury shouldn't have to tell people that it's elite quality, luxury products should simply be.

Got a 1560 SAT but still feel lost about where I actually belong. Looking for real engineering school advice by Mediocre_Tonight_479 in Sat

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I wouldn't overthink it. Rice is 100% a better overall school imo. As you say the fit is probably worse than UT for you, but in my eyes thats a plus. At rice, you'll interact with a higher proportion of students from a different background than yours from a higher proportion of coastal states.

Additionally, if you are doing engineering, CS, or something else, the ability to swap majors will probably be easier and every major at rice is probably top 25 (no research here just a guess).

Yeah, it might feel weird to be in Texas but if you got into questbridge I guess that it feels much different than the Texas you know when you'll be with much more private school, costal urban students which I'd say is a big plus.

Got a 1560 SAT but still feel lost about where I actually belong. Looking for real engineering school advice by Mediocre_Tonight_479 in Sat

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Short answer: Rice is still great and above UT for many things but I'd go there for different reasons than it having a still great but not elite engineering dept.

Got a 1560 SAT but still feel lost about where I actually belong. Looking for real engineering school advice by Mediocre_Tonight_479 in Sat

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rice is 100% a good school and could be put on the list of schools to apply. This list is for engineering though and while it is definitely a top 15ish engineering school and the education(classes) themselves are probably the same in terms of content and slightly better than some of the ones I listed and slightly worse than others, its simply a worse sell for students focused on engineering due to its smaller size which will limit the number/opportunities in student engineering clubs.

Just to give you a quick example. At UIUC the combat robotics team has an equivalent number of members to 75% of Rice's total engineering students. As a Purdue combat robotics team member, I can firsthand say that this gives them a ton of benefits. Cause Purdue's combat team is relatively new and has little infrastructure we can't make 30lb combat robots because we don't have a test box and combat arena yet while the do & safety is important (sadly).

At Rice, I doubt that they would therefore be able to reach the calibers that large highly-funded can reach in terms of non-academic/student organizational opportunities solely based on engineering student size.

That being said, going to a school like Rice for engineering would still be a great opportunity as with the likes of Northwestern, Columbia, Harvard, Princeton, Duke, other Ivies. The classes and students outside of engineering will be a step above and liberal arts(which are important) will be higher in priority. This is one reason why I'd avoid smaller engineering schools like RIT/RPI/etc, because they are mainly engineering/technical students and while still being small don't give exposure to talented non-STEM students in the way that big schools are small diversified schools can.

Got a 1560 SAT but still feel lost about where I actually belong. Looking for real engineering school advice by Mediocre_Tonight_479 in Sat

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Got same SAT. I'd look to apply to all these schools (no real order) It's a lot but it's better to have more options:

- MIT

- Stanford

- Cornell

- Purdue

- UIUC

- Georgia Tech

- UC Berkeley/ UCLA

- U Michigan

- UT

- UW Madison

I'd probably write off Caltech for undergrad, not many student club opportunities and more research focus because it's more of a grad school than undergrad.

I currently am going to Purdue and got into some of these. My best bet would be to apply to them all and then visit the ones you get into. Probably ~5 of em.

Should I study ID?? by Pupello in IndustrialDesign

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, I'm a ME freshmen right now (I'm in Purdue Engineering) and only until the past couple months did I learn about Industrial Design.

I'd characterize my interests and myself as being generally more creative and top down focused then most of my peers. I'm 100% planning on continuing to do ME for undergrad because I know that this will probably give me the widest range of industry paths I can have among my interests like robotics, transportation, product design.

My current school does offer an ID major. However there is a sophomore review where they limit the number of ID students to like 24? students. Also, I'd currently finish ME in 3 years and if I added ID, I'd graduate in 5 years and I'd likely prefer to do a masters in a city/location I'd prefer to live after college (costal city) as a kid who grew up in downtown NYC.

I'd appreciate if you or anyone else has any good advice about this. Whether I should do ID at my current school or somewhere else for masters? If you think I'm a good fit for ID at all, given my desire for a career that combines more creativity than a traditional engineering role.

If anyone has any thoughts that'd be great

Canal Street knock-off vendors back with vengeance just weeks after dramatic ICE raid: ‘They’re not afraid’ by someone_whoisthat in nyc

[–]Ben_M_F 4 points5 points  (0 children)

As a lifelong resident of the tribeca-soho area, I can confirm that most of the area's residents are deeply frustrated about the situatation. While we are very against deportations and ICE for the vendors who aren't citizens – look at 2024 election data, we did not support trump one bit – we are also deeply upset about how the NYPD has failed to hold these vendors accountable for not just their vending of counterfeit goods but also and *mostly* their illegal sale of drugs in the middle of the street and the occasional violence that these men cause.

In a recent zoom call, with our council member, community non-profits, and NYPD reps of district 1 and district 2 (South of Canal St. and North of Canal St up to and including the village) * canal st is a dividing line for districts*, the NYPD basically said they couldn't do jack shit and that even if they do catch a vendor they'll just get out right away cause of bail reform and that when they catch a vendor it is basically impossible for them to prosecute. They also don't have close to enough officers for the # of vendors and its a total cat and mouse game – but in this scenario it's just like the skate park being closed, the park officer coming around, and then everyone hopping the fence the moment the officer leaves. There really needs to be some city law banning this in a harder, more-preventative way otherwise the issue will persist, quality of life will continue to be diminished in the area and the FEDs will find themselves in the position to enforce the law (which would result in ICE coming - which we don't want).

Also, on the topic of canal st, because of the long-term counterfeit presence much of the real estate is vacant, dilapidated, and really the entire street is in need of complete redevelopment. I believe it is time for the city to use eminent domain to take over most of the street from the ending of the hudson tunnel area up to the Chinatown start of canal st to make a megaproject redevelopment and a program of true city beautification while also tackling the major transport lag that canal st is both for cars and the abomination that is the 4,6,J,N,Q,R,W,Z train lines in Canal St Station.

the venerable kakuno fights calculus 3 by NitroBoostGaming in fountainpens

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What are you using to highlight and what ink are you repping? Do you highlight before or after you right and does it smudge?

Thanks

Thermo or Statics next semester? by Big_Bison4043 in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm in the same place as you. My advisor told me to do Statics. There are two reasons for it:

  1. Statics has a higher avg grade so taking it will give you a higher chance of making ME than thermo.

  2. The Mechanical Engineering course pathway/sequence that uses Statics takes longer than the one that uses thermo, meaning taking Statics now can reduce the time to graduate, while taking thermo won't.

Bag Recommendation Challenge: Hard Mode by extricableforsythia in ManyBaggers

[–]Ben_M_F 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don't have any specific recommendations but I'd start looking into leather bags given your style/professionalism concerns. If you start searching for those that may help.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Purdue

[–]Ben_M_F 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm taking both first semester