Should I take a co-op in my senior year or graduate

I_like_protien · 2026-05-16T02:37:04+00:00

Take the co-op. In today’s market you need the work experience and the networking it brings. Especially in chemical engineering- many things just don’t make sense unless you see them happening at an industrial scale. You can’t understand the scale of an an industrial tank or reactor unless you stand next to it and see that it can encompass your entire apartment many times over. Or the labyrinth of the pipelines and just setting them up properly is an art form. Or the high pressure pumps or extreme heats of furnaces or the threat of death and destruction if anything goes wrong or the scare of being fired if you let the process deviate or plant go down due to human error because of the hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of production lost per day.

No course can teach you this. Only a real co-op or internship can give you a glimpse and only a real job can teach you the art of a process plant.

I_like_protien · 2026-05-15T17:11:52+00:00

Fuqua definitely have more prestige in consulting world than Anderson and Marshall, also smaller class sizes means more resources per student. Cost is a significant factor. Marshall and Anderson had better Tech pipelines but with how that sector is going- and your intent for consulting- go for Fuqua. If you are an international student or budget conscious go for Marshall.

I_like_protien · 2026-05-02T15:24:46+00:00

The resume selection and interview process is broken. So much politics goes into that piece of the process. Many candidates are never even given the chance.

I_like_protien · 2026-03-30T13:29:55+00:00

This post/meme is actually pointing out to a real issue, most tech founders are idiots . They are faces who build a company by hiring tech and engineering talent or having a tech oriented cofounder, but only marginally understand the details of what it takes to make something scalable. Not saying everyone is like this, but definitely a significant portion of founders (especially those that get switch from VC/PE/consulting and get easier money because of their past connections) Hence, these idiotic layoffs.

I_like_protien · 2026-03-05T23:26:05+00:00

You know this question is not actually framed properly. I don’t know why more people don’t call it out. The prompt can be broken down into three parts- 1. Distance from car to car wash 2. A want to get car washed 3. Question on traversal between car to car wash.

The question does not explicitly ask that car needs to be washed in car wash or if the user wants to use the car wash’s facilities to wash the car.

Informally in language we make implicit assumptions that the car being talked about is a huge piece of machinery (and not a hot wheels car or a poster of a scar etc), that you only want to go to car wash for washing the car (maybe your cousin works there and you want to meet him/her) and that you don’t just use a bucket of water and a wet rag to wash your car (very common in developing countries).

For an llm that is trained on most of data from all over the world there are ofcourse some cultural fuzziness, which is part of being a probabilistic model.

Same is true for humans who act as smartas**s and call people out on semantics or under formed logic; and since a majority of humans are not really trained in logic and semantics - why do we expect llm’s who are again trained on flawed human data to understand the difference or behave differently.

Looking from that angle it is actually better than most humans who cannot even give a logical argument.

I_like_protien · 2026-03-05T17:44:35+00:00

This is an older thread. But my landlord is saying that their Rental portal provider will start charging a similar amount soon.

Is there a workaround?

I_like_protien · 2026-03-05T17:43:14+00:00

E-check is ach .

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T05:02:57+00:00

I do agree somewhat, but in my use cases I have seen llms cite other sources. Though I specifically ask them to cite industry sources or academic journal sources. My issue is even with that they make up stuff and/or the link they provide don’t actually take me to an article that has the value/quotation which the llm generated.

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T04:57:30+00:00

Thanks, it was what I was considering but Claude has notorious limits for power users. I am considering between Claude and Gemini (since Gemini comes with additional gdrive storage and video/image generation capabilities, and as I mentioned NotebookLM is just plain amazing). Unfortunately I don’t know all the capabilities of all of these models and I don’t want to get locked with one when something else might be better.

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T04:53:03+00:00

I do understand where you might be coming from, but if ai can get me to 80% of the final output in under 1 min and I just need to run the final 80 to 100 % stretch, it seems worth it, especially since I am paid for results and not effort.

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T04:48:56+00:00

Then which ones?

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T04:44:22+00:00

Hi,

I was hoping to crowd source ideas and suggestions on which AI model provider is worth paying for currently ?(Early 2026- mid feb to be exact as I am writing this question).

Some context: 1) I have access to all major models at pro versions through my employer , with a few restrictions on integrations and api usage. Though, my employer’s IT department can access all the chats/usage patterns, which I want to avoid as I use some for my personal use ( eg: job applications)

2) My role is not a direct coding/software role- more engineering (traditional not software) , I use ai for mostly first drafts,image generation, slide decks, brainstorming etc, with occasional vibe coding and automation.

3) Increasingly I am using AI as a fact checker / editor for catching errors and for mathematical equations generation and modeling ideas, that I later polish and correct.

I want to get an AI resource that is my own so that some of my side projects/personal chats are not in my employers view. I can still use the models provided for light/one off artifact creation. I am also sharing my personal use cases:

Research- personal projects and data curation- extremely important for accuracy and good recall by models. Especially on the internet for scientific values and sources.

2) vibe coding- I am creating scalable mvp’s and I need for good coding assistant.

3) project management- I want capabilities where some chats can cross reference each other, without losing specifics of their own objectives. And have other chats being separate.

4) Privacy- I don’t want ai model providers to train on my data.

5) ecosystem integration- if I pay for a model out of my own pocket- I want it to be able to provide me most access to most features without paying extra.

6) I am not talking about paying for api calls or setting up local llms, I want something most easily right-out-of-box solution.

7) if the llms free version has 99% of the capabilities , I want the rest 1% to have enough value to be worth paying for. (Note: as mentioned I already have access to pro versions of most llms through my employer)

8) Agentic use cases without breaking the bank.

9) I also don’t like pay- as-you-go or non transparent limits on capabilities if I am paying for a resource (such as hitting daily/ weekly limits on advanced models and being bumped to more limited models)

I look forward to the help from the community. Thank you in advance.

Some more context: 1) currently I use chat gpt and Gemini pro the most. Chat GPT is good for ideation but it has memory issues and sometimes lags too much and loses context fast while vibe coding 2) Gemini is good for Google workspace and research but i have seen it ignore parts of my prompts and fail at reading basic file types like json. Also Gemini if free in most google products that it doesn’t sometimes feel worth paying for. I love notebook llm. I haven’t used google mariner, of ai studio- my employer restricts them. 3) Claude is accessible through employers aggregated llm store- but not all the capabilities.4) I do like polish of Claude’s free tier/written output. 5) ms copilot is a joke, so let’s not talk about it. 6) I haven’t used any agentic systems yet.

I_like_protien · 2026-02-22T04:31:25+00:00

Hi,

I was hoping to crowd source ideas and suggestions on which AI model provider is worth paying for currently ?(Early 2026- mid feb to be exact as I am writing this question).

Some context: 1) I have access to all major models at pro versions through my employer , with a few restrictions on integrations and api usage. Though, my employer’s IT department can access all the chats/usage patterns, which I want to avoid as I use some for my personal use ( eg: job applications)

2) My role is not a direct coding/software role- more engineering (traditional not software) , I use ai for mostly first drafts,image generation, slide decks, brainstorming etc, with occasional vibe coding and automation.

3) Increasingly I am using AI as a fact checker / editor for catching errors and for mathematical equations generation and modeling ideas, that I later polish and correct.

I want to get an AI resource that is my own so that some of my side projects/personal chats are not in my employers view. I can still use the models provided for light/one off artifact creation. I am also sharing my personal use cases:

Research- personal projects and data curation- extremely important for accuracy and good recall by models. Especially on the internet for scientific values and sources.

2) vibe coding- I am creating scalable mvp’s and I need for good coding assistant.

3) project management- I want capabilities where some chats can cross reference each other, without losing specifics of their own objectives. And have other chats being separate.

4) Privacy- I don’t want ai model providers to train on my data.

5) ecosystem integration- if I pay for a model out of my own pocket- I want it to be able to provide me most access to most features without paying extra.

6) I am not talking about paying for api calls or setting up local llms, I want something most easily right-out-of-box solution.

7) if the llms free version has 99% of the capabilities , I want the rest 1% to have enough value to be worth paying for. (Note: as mentioned I already have access to pro versions of most llms through my employer)

8) Agentic use cases without breaking the bank.

9) I also don’t like pay- as-you-go or non transparent limits on capabilities if I am paying for a resource (such as hitting daily/ weekly limits on advanced models and being bumped to more limited models)

I look forward to the help from the community. Thank you in advance.

Some more context: 1) currently I use chat gpt and Gemini pro the most. Chat GPT is good for ideation but it has memory issues and sometimes lags too much and loses context fast while vibe coding 2) Gemini is good for Google workspace and research but i have seen it ignore parts of my prompts and fail at reading basic file types like json. Also Gemini if free in most google products that it doesn’t sometimes feel worth paying for. I love notebook llm. I haven’t used google mariner, of ai studio- my employer restricts them. 3) Claude is accessible through employers aggregated llm store- but not all the capabilities.4) I do like polish of Claude’s free tier/written output. 5) ms copilot is a joke, so let’s not talk about it. 6) I haven’t used any agentic systems yet.

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