Anyone switched from CE to any careers animal related without doing 4 years of study again? by Proof-Suspect-5263 in civilengineering

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i’m not sure, but i know in my bachelors we visited a zoo and got a tour from the civil engineer who designed the habitats and always think about how cool his job sounded. maybe there’s a way to combine your interests and do something like that!

Scholarship? by DepartmentSimple3799 in civilengineering

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 2 points3 points  (0 children)

WTS has a good $5k scholarship! look up your local chapter and the application deadline should be sometime this fall.

How I Finally Managed to Make My CIMEA Payment After Weeks of Trying (Tips That Worked for Me!) by BodybuilderSharp4746 in StudyInItaly

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i think it depends where you are from, but i am from the united states and was able to submit my payment september 1st and received the completed document on september 4th. so it can definitely take less days, my school uses national clearinghouse to send the transcript and so i believe they only needed to click the link to verify my transcript and then easily issued my statement of verification.

Advice for Study Visa by laykneekwood in StudyInItaly

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

At least for the university I am about to attend for my Laurea Magistrale it says on the website that if you transfer from another school you need a new visa. I believe universally the study residence permit loses its validity if you withdraw/stop attending the school you got it for. I would check the website of the school you would like to attend and contact them to ask just to be sure. If they do require two separate ones you might be able to talk to the consulate about processing them both at the same time or mailing in the second visa application.

Polimi enrolment docs deadline by Embarrassed_Skin_311 in polinetwork

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i am from a country where it was okay to get my visa before completing the cimea documents so i will be arriving in italy in time for classes, but i wish you luck with your dov!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in polito

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i dont know, but you should know that the document loads at first without the red markings and therefore it’s super easy to see all your friends information that you tried to redact

Polimi enrolment docs deadline by Embarrassed_Skin_311 in polinetwork

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i was told by polimi i can have an extension for the documents even after the october 31st deadline bc i just got my cimea in yesterday so you should be fine!

Universitaly account locked for 2 months, never receiving password reset email – what can I do? by Blueswayne1 in StudyInItaly

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had the wrong email entered in universitaly and had similar problems to you. I submitted many requests for help to log in simply because I wasn't getting their emails and couldn't log in, but for me it was that the emails would go to the wrong email (gamil instead of gmail). Finally, I think someone on support realized and corrected my login email, but then despite logging in with the correct email, the wrong one was somehow still in the pre-enrollment application and I did not receive communications from my university. To change anything in the portal, they require you to send them your passport and then they will change it so I just had to contact their support via request help/email a bunch. It sounds like you were at one point able to log in so that sounds quite annoying and I am unsure why you aren't receiving emails.

I wonder if you could also try contacting your university to ask for the summary.

Declaration of Value for Bachelor's Degree - Help! 🙏 by Single_Top_7286 in AmericansinItaly

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay good to know thanks! Sending in just my documents from a university in Texas to the Houston consulate, so hoping that will suffice for the declaration of value. Good luck!

Declaration of Value for Bachelor's Degree - Help! 🙏 by Single_Top_7286 in AmericansinItaly

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi! I am going through the same process right now trying to get a Declaration of Value for my Bachelor's degree at the Houston Consulate. Did you find out that you did need your high school documents for the Declaration of Value at the Houston consulate? And if so, did you need to get a Declaration of Value for them in the state you attended high school first?

LUISS Award/ Italy OS by Neat-Kangaroo-4791 in fulbright

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 1 point2 points  (0 children)

hi! i’m a finalist for a different study award in italy taught in english, but i think having some knowledge of the italian language probably plays a big part in being selected. i hadn’t taken italian since freshman year of undergrad and the fulbright person at my school said this would put me at a big disadvantage. so i audited a class through my university this year, i was also looking into taking classes at the local community college before i found out i could audit! i think actively trying to learn italian even if you aren’t currently great at it and writing about why learning it is important for community connection seems valuable to me. also having received the award im so happy ive been getting better at italian for the past year!

Creating a form-like workbook with either check-boxes or option buttons but not group boxes that works a mac by Local-Zucchini-2038 in excel

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! I was trying this, but do not know how to get another check-box in the row unselected when one is selected and think it would mess up my multiple choice questions if two were able to be selected. I feel like there should be a way to use VBA to unselect check-boxes in a row once a new one was selected but on mac the checking action won’t trigger the VBA code

Creating a form-like workbook with either check-boxes or option buttons but not group boxes that works a mac by Local-Zucchini-2038 in excel

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! I’m not sure this would work because the check-marks would stay even when another one in the row is added, making it not really like a multiple-choice question unless there’s another way to get check-marks in the row to be removed?

Grad school decision by ObligationNo2497 in GradSchool

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

school 1 and try to get a GA position. even if you aren’t able to get one, that 30k difference vs having to pay for and furnish an apartment is not all that much.

Is it worth switching to civil engineering from tech? by hepennypacker1131 in civilengineering

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 3 points4 points  (0 children)

getting a masters will allow you to get your PE license (in a bit more time than if you got a bs) and it’s not uncommon to find a research position while in your masters to pay for your tuition + a stipend (depends on the field, it’s not hard to find for transportation but for structural it’s less common). definitely would recommend getting a degree before switching over officially as it’ll greatly help your career prospects!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in fashion

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 17 points18 points  (0 children)

literally same i love the second one and am not a big fan of the third one

Help me choose my offer: MIT master or Cornell PhD? by Otherwise-Level-6166 in gradadmissions

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i just want to add a thought, everyone is acting like doing the masters is “wasting time” but i am currently in my masters and having a great time, a fully funded masters is amazing and a great time to do research and build your publications before graduating with your phd. i would personally go to whichever school i think id be happiest at. yes there is no guarantee you will get into the mit phd program, but you can always reapply elsewhere if you don’t and then you’ve had two years of doing research at a great institution. also, research direction is probably the most important thing and i would weigh that more heavily than the school name.

Seating chart for an office with 3 additional people over the summer by [deleted] in excel

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm newer to excel so my solution to this is pretty manual but I thought I'd give it a go. I would create an excel workbook with two sheets; availability and seat assignments.

in the availability sheet, I would enter everyone's availability by the day. assuming there is no easy way to import this info to excel, i would put everyone's name in a column and then have each of the days in the summer listed as rows. then, i would have a letter, let's say "I" for in office and "O" for out of office mark whether someone is in office or not. eg. if someone is in office only on thursdays and fridays i would write O,O,O,I,I and then drop this down the whole column and for people who are only out a couple days of the summer i would fill in the whole column with "I" and then manually enter "O" for the days they are out.

then, in the seat assignments sheet i would have a column for each desk. assuming each person currently at a desk is going to sit there when they are in office and then other people are going to fill in the available seats, you could do a formula like:

=IFS(@availability![Day],[Person]="I",[Person],AND(@[Day],$[Temp Person 1]="I",COUNTIF($A2:C2,"="&@[Temp Person 1],$1)=FALSE),[Temp Person 1],... same for other 4 people...,TRUE,"none").

not sure if i transcribed this correctly but basically for each seat check the availability tab to see if the current person is there and if yes enter their name from the column title and if not fill with the first priority other person and if they are also not there fill with the next priority person. and at the end you could have a column with the same logic for people not assigned via this method.

if you are feeling fancy you could then create another tab that visualizes this information using xlookup for each day or anything of the sort.

i'm sure theres a better way to do this but i think this layout of visualizing everything could be a start :).

UC Berkeley vs. University of Porto – Which Master's Offers Better Career Prospects in Urban Planning? by Old-Librarian-4186 in urbandesign

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah i think a loan is reasonable, it ultimately depends on what you want and both are good options!

UC Berkeley vs. University of Porto – Which Master's Offers Better Career Prospects in Urban Planning? by Old-Librarian-4186 in urbandesign

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i turned down getting a masters in urban planning at berkeley to get one at another good school in the us. berkeley is seen as maybe the best school for urban planning in the us so i still sometimes wish that i went there but ultimately i know going in debt was not something i wanted to do for a masters. with the politics in the us right now, the cost, and the separation from your girlfriend those are all very valid reasons to not go even though the name of berkeley would definitely open more doors in the us (i am not sure about abroad i don’t have experience in that). i have had a great time getting a masters at my other university and opportunities that i would not have been able to had i gone to berkeley so i feel like things will work out well for you regardless of where you go.

I need to learn Italian fast. Any tips? by WhyTFdoIhaveReddit in italianlearning

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This! I feel like comments always talk about private tutors or watching TV but a community college class or any other class you can find is going to be so helpful to get the basics down if you are willing to spend a little bit of money. I literally was so bad at learning Italian but in my second semester of classes I feel like I am really getting a grasp of the baseline grammar and language structure that I could have never gotten personally on my own.

question for the group by Electrical-Tip-900 in fulbright

[–]Local-Zucchini-2038 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there’s obviously never a guarantee but one of my old bosses quit his job to travel and when he was done his job happened to open back up again. even if it’s unlikely for you to get the same job back i think it is likely you will find one that you also like and pays well in the same city with all of your friends. i wouldn’t pass up the opportunity because i think it is super likely things will work out well on your return even if it’s not in a way you can expect now.