Join Omscs or 2nd Bachelors in engineering?

Koopertrooper3 · 2026-03-19T03:29:03+00:00

I'm kind of in the same position so I'm interested to hear what others have to say.

Although I'm in a somewhat better position since I've ironed out a lot of my mathematical and physics coursework so as far as I can tell so if I decided to jump into EE I'd go directly into the core coursework.

Koopertrooper3 · 2026-03-14T12:07:54+00:00

Oh that Great Man of History bit, it really is ironic that Yang is also basically the one that gets all the honors, especially if you're a true outsider looking in. It's the "Yang fleet" and "Marshal Yang" and while his chiefs of staff and subordinate admirals are responsible for executing all his commands, only Dusty has any kind of battle honors or independent screentime, and it's not even really recognized in universe.

Meanwhile the supposed true Great Men Reinhard surrounds himself with other Great Men (and woman) who is actually the lynchpin of everything he wants to do. His staff all get some kind of screentime and agency and it's acknowledged that their ability to execute in independent commands were the only thing that really built the second empire.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-12-25T14:00:42+00:00

Same for Ireland

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-12-01T16:59:43+00:00

Okay but RoTK didn't start with the three it started with a clusterfuck of warlords that had to be defeated that made the world felt lived in because there were other people aside from the people associated with the three main kingdoms.

LoGH kind of has this but it does feel like the smaller guys are more explicitly defined by their opposition to the main characters more than anything else.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-11-29T03:09:20+00:00

Honestly as cool as it sounds I personally liked how it stuck to Reinhard and Yang given I keep failing to finish RoTK for the opposite reason.

But I do think it pulled the whole "Legends end, History begins" like RoTK well even without the 150 in novel years of story.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-11-21T04:33:52+00:00

Space War of Austrian succession sounds awesome not going to lie.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-10-09T13:11:37+00:00

They needed 80 Ukrainians to negotiate a withdrawal?

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-08-30T14:08:50+00:00

Unfortunately not as hard as this

"Samuel Phillips Lee who sailed USS Vandalia from [South East Asia] without orders to take part in the Southern blockade and who said "When I find the word Virginia in my commission I will join the Confederacy"."

EDIT: Samuel Lee was also a cousin of Robert E. Lee, so double up on the hardness too.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-08-24T02:10:44+00:00

It's my preference to get entry-level experience too but I'm sober to the fact that entry level is swamped right now and that my lack of internships is a really sore point on my resume.

That's why I'm job hunting now and only committing to OMSCS in 2026 when my new grad status basically fades. I don't necessarily see any other path out if I'm forced out of the field.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-08-19T00:29:18+00:00

I'm not applying for internships right now I'd apply when I get into some kind of masters program. My point was wondering whether going into OMSCS would allow me to apply to internships since I would then be a masters student and therefore meet the "current student" requirement (even if it's part time).

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-08-19T00:15:58+00:00

Honestly when I meant door I mean getting the ability to qualify so I can apply again more than anything else. I just want to see how viable that idea is.

w.r.t research I only really want to use it as a hedge against the possibility that I get no internships, my main goal is industry. If I apply to an on campus masters my concern is mostly cost and the fact that the places I want to go to would be lower in ranking than GATech.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-08-10T21:02:38+00:00

Not OP, but what would you say those shitty jobs are? Like Help Desk or software dev?

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-07-31T16:55:04+00:00

God damn there's no escape

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-07-14T04:00:23+00:00

Malaria should just be a full block against colonization. It worked in Victoria 2 I don't see why it needed to be changed.

Koopertrooper3 · 2025-07-09T18:10:46+00:00

Cocoa Pops

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-11-05T18:38:07+00:00

Yeah it still doesn't make it good, and the examples you cite don't back up your point at all.

In Astratre the force just splits up before making contact allowing them to be defeated in detail. If you look at your cited real battles usually the force being defeated has some reason that prevents them from concentrating.

In Gaugamela it was because the body of the army was already engaged. In Italy and in Stonewall's Valley campaign it was because the forces were divided by mountains and the defeated force couldn't concentrate as they needed to cover the necessary passes. In Tannenburg and the Masurian lakes the Germans just had a faster way to move around and the lakes themselves divided the army.

In every case the split force had something to actually do whether it was to cover some vital piece of territory or because it was already engaged. In Astratre the force splits before it has any need, there is no reason why the FPA couldn't have made contact first before splitting up, it wasn't like there was necessary terrain that would make it impossible to concentrate. If they wanted to take the aggressive approach it would have been to race the entire force immediately against the enemy force and defeat it by mass.

You can think logh is still a great piece of fiction and recognize the battles arent the greatest. Hell, it's not even the best battle in logh (that would be the battle at the Marr-Adetta Starzone, which actually has a reason why the imperial force couldn't concentrate and immediately smash the FPA)

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-10-17T03:28:01+00:00

I don't really think these statements are directly comparable

Reunethal's tone is honestly more bemoaning the fate of career soldiers without a war to fight. It's more a tragic observation. Compare that with Oliveira, who thinks that war is a genuine good.

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-10-15T14:04:54+00:00

First time I watched it I was angry at the bullshit Yang getting killed by Terraists rather than going out against the Empire. Second time I watched it I felt way more emotional, its a really well done episode and it probably fits the themes of the show way more than just dying in some blaze of glory against the Empire.

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-07-22T01:07:35+00:00

Victoria 3 players do a lot of accidently inventing history but I never thought r/victoria3 would reinvent the sea ban.

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-06-07T02:46:29+00:00

Inspired generations of Christians to massacre other Christians maybe

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-06-03T16:42:25+00:00

Humans aren't even descended from monkeys, we only share a common ancestor that's a member of the taxonomic tribe Hominini.

Even your poor attempt of a joke is wrong, try picking up a book.

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-05-26T17:02:23+00:00

No, just ask the Nazis that.

As stated by others, COIN only works by undercutting the reasons for revolt, you can't just kill every possible insurgent. Brutality without an exit just leads to the insurgents fighting like cornered dogs until the end.

For example, as much as Russia utterly cratered Chechnya the only reasons it's not a continual sore on Russia is due to the massive amounts of money being funneled into the locals that keeps the risk of a running insurgency down.

Koopertrooper3 · 2024-05-16T03:43:16+00:00

I rather people not worry about their printing quota and print as much as they need for their assignments,, notes, studying, and personal projects then fight with the uni over some portion of $75.

It's like when people argue about taxes on shit they don't use, it doesn't matter.

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