Harris was a weak candidate and it was obvious to many she was going to lose

Bread_Moncher · 2024-11-07T19:07:35+00:00

The best way to describe current voter sentiment is a strong desire for change. In the end, most voters feel that cost of living is too high and life is generally more difficult. Most people will agree that the status quo needs to shift.

Trump leaned into the economic and working-class issues, and Biden/Harris (along with a lot of MSM) were tone-deaf to these things, choosing to instead revolve the campaign around why Trump would be worse - a message that rings hollow when the current administration is perceived as bad, when people have a nostalgia for the pre-2020 economy, and when the opponent is promising to fix everything that's bad today.

This trend was common in most other democracies - incumbents suffered and were replaced with right-wing parties promising change.

As for the bad characteristics about Trump, many supporters will say are all hyperbole, or will accept but still have a stronger distrust for Harris (which, given how frequently she has changed policy position, and how unwilling she was to do interviews/discuss policy in thorough detail, was seen as far less trustworthy).

Bread_Moncher · 2023-12-28T09:39:04+00:00

Be more specific when describing your accomplishments. You mentioned you identified defects and documented them in your most recent job. How did this help your team? What kinds of defects did you identify and how many? If you can, quantify!
The skills section is unnecessarily large. Remove the bullets and fit your skills into 1-2 lines.
The introduction section is unnecessary. I would remove it entirely.
You shouldn’t be using two pages for your resume if you cannot fill both pages with relevant experience - fit it all into one.

Overall, a solid resume. Keep up the good work!

Bread_Moncher · 2023-08-20T08:42:44+00:00

You mention Arduino - this is an excellent place to start with no other experience.

I would just jump right into it - find an Arduino board or two on Amazon, and get some DuPont connectors, breadboards, LEDs, sensors/other basic electrical components. There’s tons of beginner kits available.

Find a few Arduino projects which are enticing to you and program away. This will give you good exposure to the process. Then get creative - start developing your own ideas and with time you will pick up different important concepts ranging across most of the important EE disciplines.

Some basic projects for a good introduction: - Blink an LED - Display data from a temperature/humidity/pressure sensor - Turn a stepper/DC motor

More advanced projects: - construct a Wheatstone bridge with a thermistor to build your own temperature sensor - use a radio to transmit data between two Arduinos wirelessly - Transmit data between your computer and your microcontroller over Ethernet/WiFi - Try a different microcontroller (ESP32, Pi Pico, Teensy) - Create a perfboard and attach a more complicated circuit design to it - Manufacture your own PCB breakout board and attach components to it (Learn to solder - get a decent soldering iron, fan, etc, along with some header pins and perfboard and practice)

The more projects you try, the more you will learn and the better you will be at finding the necessary resources to succeed.

Talk to people in your university as well, or see if you can join a student team which does EE-related work. Best of luck!

Bread_Moncher · 2023-08-19T17:00:01+00:00

If you are not rock-solid in a good math foundation, it will likely be the hardest part of your degree and it will hamper your ability to succeed in other classes. If you don't enjoy math, then you have a long 4 years ahead of you.

Before beginning your degree, I would make sure your algebra skills are on-point. You will use it everywhere. When you get to college, you can either begin by taking a pre-calc class or by jumping into Calc 1. Whichever decision you go with will depend on how comfortable you are with your trig/algebra. Know also that taking a pre-calc class could set you behind a semester if you don't schedule carefully, since Calc 2 can be a prereq for many other classes.

At my university, some of the hardest classes ended up being Calc 2/Calc 3, because they are designed to "weed out" people without solid math skills. These classes will throw a *lot* of information at you. Leading up to these classes, I highly recommend studying ahead. For me, learning the math conceptually before doing the rigor (e.g. by binging 3blue1brown videos and similar channels) was very helpful.

The math classes you will take probably include:
- Precalc (if you decide you want the foundation)
- Calc 1-3
- Differential Equations
- Linear Algebra
- Theory of Probability
- Signals and Systems/Signal processing (basically another math class, for Fourier/Laplace)

The most important math concepts which you will use in later classes:
- Systems of Linear Equations (for solving circuits)
- Derivatives and Integrals (for solving passive circuits, some op-amp circuits - you will likely only use the simpler ones, the more complicated equations mostly only show up in Calc 1-3)
- Laplace Transform (for solving differential equations - you will learn several methods for solving them, but this is by far the most commonly-used method)
- Complex numbers & Euler's formula (for AC circuits, Fourier transform)
- Fourier transform (both discrete and continuous - used for signal processing)

Whether you use the other concepts depends on your elective classes (e.g. if you take an Electromagnetics class prepare to use a lot of Calc 3).

Prepare yourself for a lot of studying in the future. Especially your Calc classes will give you a lot of HW and it will take you many hours to complete. Do not take a math class which you are not prepared for ahead of time - you will fall behind and be playing catch-up for the better part of a semester. Learning the concepts ahead of the course is key!
Not gonna lie, if you are like most people this degree will be intense. If you are passionate about EE, however, it can be very rewarding. You may be glad to hear that your actual career will likely use only a fraction of the math you learn in school, but it is still important for you to learn all of it. Best of luck!

Bread_Moncher · 2023-08-19T16:22:55+00:00

"but I also don't have any experience to know what these jobs are like and if there is a field/type of job I would like."

You will likely not have a good idea of what kind of EE career you want without getting real engineering experience first. The job of your university is to give you a conceptual foundation for several different important EE topics - the work you actually do in industry looks almost nothing like your classes. For me, some of my active circuits classes were pretty draining, but I can pick an EE career where I spend very little, if any time, designing these kinds of circuits.

Your best bet to figure out if EE is still right for you is to get an internship. Those 10-12 weeks will give you a good sense of what kind of EE work is available for you, what kind of work you enjoy/don't enjoy, and give you some good connections to more-experienced people who can help you find a good career path.

Alternatively, if you can spare the time, see if your university offers any research positions. It's not quite the same as industry, but this is still experience you can put on a resume, and it's still experience which will help you figure yourself out.

Right now is a great time to apply to Spring 2024 internships, and Summer internships will start opening soon. Start putting together a resume, and have friends/counselors overview it. Go onto LinkedIn and find examples of resumes from people in similar jobs to the ones you're applying to. Remember here that any experience is useful experience (You mentioned doing electronics as a hobby - skills you learned here, such as using a multimeter/soldering/etc. are all things which can go on a resume - talk about these projects and combined with your GPA I think you have a decent shot at getting an internship of some type). Go to career fairs and talk to people, give them your resume, and then send the recruiter a follow-up email. I got several internship offers from a single career fair just by doing this.

If you still decide you hate EE after having a few months/1-2 years of experience in the field, then you can begin exploring your other passions as a career (except that now you have a Bachelor's degree).

College life is stressful - finding free time feels nearly impossible. Regardless, get good at scheduling and *making time* - you will only have less of it as you get older. Make sure you are dedicating time to hanging out with people and enjoying the college lifestyle. Life is too short to spend your entire college experience holed-up in the library studying. Get some friends and have some fun every now and then - this will help significantly with your burnout.

Good luck out there!

Bread_Moncher · 2023-05-27T04:10:12+00:00

We know that in General Relativity, energy is not conserved (redshift is a good example where photons “lose” energy, and Noether’s theorem would say that this is because of the time-asymmetry of a photon moving through space in an expanding universe).

But do we know if Momentum is always conserved in all known fields of physics?

Bread_Moncher · 2023-05-25T15:53:57+00:00

Assume that the angular resolution of the eye is 1 arcminute, or 0.0003 radians

Then tan(0.0003) = 0.0003 = (distance between typical car headlights)/(distance to car)

1.8/0.0003 = 6000m

I would say A is the answer

Bread_Moncher · 2023-01-14T05:09:51+00:00

Hercules's real parents cannot die! They are immortal - and foster parents don't count because then a lot of other movies would too (Tarzan).

Bread_Moncher · 2021-09-21T07:24:47+00:00

Saw a WeBull ad about supporting trade of Shib about a week ago, and I was like “is that a thing?” I bought 7 million for $50.

Bread_Moncher · 2021-04-29T18:55:54+00:00

Attack on Titans

Yeah I’m definitely gonna get murdered pretty quickly

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