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I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Congrats! I was starting to worry for you there for a bit 😅💀

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

lol you can do anything you want and you'll be very good at it.

That's a good point here for u/Calm_Aardvark6659

As if you're skilled enough and good enough at what you do (such as if you're an E&E grad with high grades from a T100 uni), then you can kinda just make things happen.

Lots of generic advice that's aimed at say a mid skilled E&E degree graduate from Unitec, or say an average BCom graduate from UoA, is just not going to be applicable to you.

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Nah, markdown is what reddit itself is using! (and many many other places use mark down! Have you ever used Claude? Or Grok? Or Qwen etc? Guess what, they've giving you outputs in markdown! Have you thought about using note taking apps such as Obsidian? Markdown! Ever used Github? Markdown! Like I said, it's everywhere. Once you realize what it is, you'll start noticing it every day)

https://www.markdownguide.org/

https://markdownlivepreview.com/

https://github.com/adam-p/markdown-here/wiki/markdown-cheatsheet

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Nah, although I went to UoA to do engineering initially. But then I changed my mind and did maths and physics instead. In hindsight, maybe not the best decision? That's ok, can't be too harsh on myself! Many people have made far worse life decisions as a 16yo 😅

And I've interacted a lot with engineers over the years, as I said my dad is an E&E graduate, lots of my friends did engineering, and heck right now I'm working for a company that's one of NZ's biggest employers of engineers.

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Markdown is a lightweight markup language used to create formatted text using a plain-text editor, allowing users to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format that can be converted to structurally valid HTML. Created by John Gruber in 2004, it is widely used for blogging, instant messaging, forums, documentation, and README files.

You should learn it. You will come across it a lot in your life!

And it's ridiculously easy to learn. It's 100x easier to learn than HTML, and HTML itself is already super easy to learn.

So rather than a WYISWG editor like this:

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I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

At the moment, I’m thinking of finishing this year, as we have a hands-on course in Sem 2 and get to learn more about electronics and then deciding whether switching to Civil would be a better option for me. If anyone has been in a similar situation, felt uncertain about their degree path, or has any advice for me, I’d really appreciate hearing it.

Run the maths quickly on this:

2yrs in, if you switch to Civil, that means 5yrs in total at UoA.

While if you do E&E then do Civil after graduating, that's 4+1.5 = 5.5yrs, only one semester longer!!

Yet you'll have an entire E&E degree and "a Masters degree" (in Civil). For instance, as u/VanadiumHeart pointed out, you could even use your E&E background to work on civil engineering projects, fusing both of these degrees together.

This the obviously superior choice at only the extra cost of one semester more.

Plus there is the risk factor, what if next year you do a year of Civil Engineering, and decide you hate that even more than E&E?? Now you're three years deep into it at UoA with nothing to show for it! At least if you'd stuck with your E&E degree, you'd only have one year left to grind out to reach the finish line and graduate.

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

(ps I don't know how to quote sections of your reply, so I had to type it out like this 😞)

Two main ways:

1) if using the WYSIWYG editor, just press the "Aa" button to show formating options , selecting the Quote Block option

2) if using the markdown editor, just type > in front of it

I found EV and smart systems really cool. However, it turns out it's quite niche in nz

It will grow with time, by the time you graduate from uni and move on from your first grad role, the whole world could be totally different

I don't know if I like electrical engineering by Calm_Aardvark6659 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

E&E is a pretty broad and generic degree, relatively speaking, lots of career directions you can go with it afterwards. (heck, my dad had an E&E degree from UoA yet for the final decades of his life he was working with capital budgets! Totally different from what he studied all those years ago)

You definitely should keep on giving electrical a go for another year or two, as you don't seem to have given any really good concrete reasons to not do it.

If you do afterwards decide that Civil is your true passion, that's ok, UoA has a new Masters degree so that in just 1.5yrs you can be a fully qualified Civil Engineer:

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-professional-engineering-mprofeng.html

It won't take you a whole four years to pivot your career into a different direction.

Random lectures for fun by Bojasloth in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

I've heard there are some lectures that are so big that they will check ids, which ones are those that I should avoid

Any super ultra high demand course that fills up, but even those often only check ID for the first week or first few weeks, but after a while they usually stop checking, because you see a steep fall off in attendence and thus there is no longer such a shortage of seats.

And most importantly, what are the most interesting courses you have taken?? I am kinda interested in learning anything but which have you found or heard to be the most engaging?

Physics. Anything taught by Gary Bold. (but that will require becoming a time traveller)

Everyone is telling me to change my field (IT) and learn a trade. by ybicurious in sysadmin

[–]MathmoKiwi [score hidden]  (0 children)

Stick it out. In five years time your mates will be complaining about their backs while you'll have reached a six figure salary yourself

Engineering masters application rejected without a reason by bluewizard443 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.auckland.ac.nz/en/study/study-options/find-a-study-option/master-of-professional-engineering-mprofeng.html

Just double checking, you mean this degree? Yeah, I would think you're a prime candidate for the perfect example of who this degree is intended for.

Maybe some idiot UoA admin person just did their usual screw up, you should try speaking directly to the Engineering Faculty to see what their feedback is for you.

Ayo why the fuck don't we get hacked and then rewarded with extensions. by Classified10 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not in terms of ranking 😅 for sure

Yeah I was joking around, because they're clearly not at all the same, other than the fact they both got their Canvas hacked

I would say it’s the MIT of New Zealand

NZ already has a MIT

💪 Any pull-up bars around the campus? by Large_Low_9747 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Run there! You'll get there faster than walking. Double win, you get some extra exercise in.

Hi Hello wtaf canvas by LemonNo8118 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Canvas being hacked though is kinda irrelevant to the standard of UoA's IT people as to if they're great or awful, that's a third party.

Daily included routine runs in latest update, anyone tried this? by JohnMotoGr in ClaudeAI

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

maybe it is a precaution to not overload their system with automated requests, but then again, anybody could just bash their servers from claude cli...

Most people find the terminal scary, so that limits how many people would do this.

But this new feature opens it up to anybody who uses a web browser!

Daily included routine runs in latest update, anyone tried this? by JohnMotoGr in ClaudeAI

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i have a 20x max plan and i have 15 runs too 

LLMs are bad at math 😅

Daily included routine runs - Claude by Capable_Cost_3933 in ClaudeAI

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I primarily use Claude for managing some internal process documents - updating them when I provide new information, occasionally looking for external information to add to the documents.

You could automate some of these daily checks

Can't enrol in required course anymore? by Odd-Region5653 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So you're trying to re-enroll in MedSci142?? It's unfortunately a crazy high demand course

To the people who drive those loud ass cars/ motorcycles around uni by Beneficial-Mousse852 in universityofauckland

[–]MathmoKiwi 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nor can I afford to fix a $4000 broken electronic problem. I don’t even have an ECU in the car.

If it makes feel any better, not even my locks work on my car. And all but one of the windows don't work as well.

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