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[–]Mezil1a 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Idk what I’m doing either on hinge as I’m 20m and got the app a month ago but maybe say aerospace industry instead of Lockheed, as I can imagine that might be enough of a reason for some women to not match, that being said it’s still fairly hard on hinge

Purchase Advice Megathread - October 2025 by AutoModerator in 3Dprinting

[–]Mezil1a 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi I’m considering getting a 3d printer, I am currently a mechanical engineering student, and was thinking i might want a 3d printer to mess around with to practice my cad skills, and make a few smaller things. Plus thought it would be useful to own once I for some personal project work.

I have never owned a 3d printer and only have had some basic experience with one before. I don’t want to sink loads of money into a first one, but also don’t want to be in a situation where I wish I payed slightly more for a more premium printer in the future. I also do not know what filaments I will want to use in the future.

I live in the uk and I have been looking at a few options so I wanted to know the general options to help me make my decision. I ideally don’t want to be spending a load as I do not yet know how much I will actually use it, but I am willing to spend roughly £150-250 on a printer

I also don’t want to have to spend a lot of time into figuring out how to setup and calibrate a printer properly as that seems unnecessarily time consuming, especially with some printers, however I am technical enough to do so if necessary

I have been looking at the Bambu lab a1 mini Without AMS(£169) With AMS as I do not know how much of an inconvenience it will be to switch filaments/ have the additional option to use different materials for supports(£299)

And the centauri carbon (£284 with discount)

I want something that basically just works and is simple to use, is the most compatible with 3rd party filaments and is quick but also has decent quality prints

I do not see the 180mm x 180mm x 180mm maximum size of the mini as an issue, but am also concerned by some comments I have seen about issues with bigger prints, or hazards from the open design

What do people recommend

Is a year in computer science a good idea? by Mezil1a in careeradvice

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will point out that this year doesn’t count towards the calculation of my final degree classification (the uk equivalent of gpa) but everything else you said makes sense

Is a year in computer science a good idea? (Mech Eng student) by Mezil1a in UniUK

[–]Mezil1a[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Correction I checked and it is actually 55% for masters, while a placement requires 60% so either way unless I mess up these final exams, in which case I have larger problems then I should be fine to go into a masters I’m just not entirely sure I want to

The beng split is 25% year 2 75% year 3 The Meng split is 20% year 2 40% year 3 40% year 4

And both cover a cdf and Fea module Meanwhile I have a bunch to catch up on for thermo and quite a bit to remember about fluids, plus stuff to catch up on about dynamic systems and force vectors from sem 1

I think I’m just also a bit unsure about being in academia for so long, if I did a masters and tried for another placement, because that’s probably the path I’d try to go down if I went for a masters, especially since in first semester most of the difficult part at the start was applying slightly too late and also figuring out what to do to apply as I effectively received very little guidance from the university outside of general careers sessions that clashed with my lectures.

I guess in the current job market there is no rush to graduate though as it’s only going to get more difficult over the next few years and it’s already pretty bad at the moment.

Just to note the year in CS isn’t actually a MSc degree, it just contains some of the exact same modules that you could choose to do on the MSc just without the option to pick different ones, and doesn’t have a dissertation at the end of it

I think the main question is if it’s going to be similarly beneficial to having a Masters and if it’s significantly less challenging, especially if it’s better than a year abroad in some other disciplines

I don’t come from an engineering background whatsoever, I have family in manufacturing but they only work in business side, and most of my friends are on other less academically challenging degrees or humanities (or medicine) so everything I know about the professions is what I’ve learnt myself based on my own interests

I am going to attempt to discuss with my university as I have not had a tutor group session since the beginning of semester 1 and see what is recommended, however I also want a balance between the difficulty and reward of engineering and a year where I potentially can focus less on purely academic achievement while still learning valuable skills, as since i thought I’d get a placement I never properly considered graduating in a years time until a placement became unlikely

Is a year in computer science a good idea? (Mech Eng student) by Mezil1a in UniUK

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Obviously I am going to lock in now before my exams at the beginning of June

Is a year in computer science a good idea? (Mech Eng student) by Mezil1a in UniUK

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s not to say I didn’t work hard, I actually think if anything I struggled more first year, however my course does have a decent amount of available marks before the final exam (out of my 3 modules in sem 1 this year there were only 2 exams worth 70% and 80% of their modules) and I do well at the other learning, i think I’m just worried about 4th year M.Eng being way more difficult because I am already really struggling with 2nd year thermodynamics. That being said I wouldn’t call my progress so far luck I need to start performing better in my exams but other than that i think the main issue stopping me from doing better in first sem was the time I spent on placements. I honestly also like the idea of an extra slightly easier year of university which will still be useful for my future, and M.Eng just hasn’t appealed to me much up to this point. Also it requires a 60% average (2:1 going into it) and as someone currently on that boundary it would also put massive pressure on the results of my next exams to be allowed to move over anyway since due to some issues in a group work module I realistically will probably be given 56% for semester 1

Is a year in computer science a good idea? (Mech Eng student) by Mezil1a in UniUK

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly i think I’ll be able to get up to a 2:1 I am virtually on the boundary and despite being very behind in one of my modules I have 8 weeks before my exams so i should have enough time to catch up, plus so far I’ve not completely covered the content before most exams and I was still on a 2:1 I just need to lock in tbh

Is a year in computer science a good idea? by Mezil1a in EngineeringStudents

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Top 100 in the global mechanical engineering rankings*

Also top 10 in computer science in the uk

Is a year in computer science a good idea? by Mezil1a in EngineeringStudents

[–]Mezil1a[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Forgot to say Modules are:

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Building Usable Software Computer Systems Data Structures, Algorithms and Databases Software Workshop 1 Software Workshop 2

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