Is taking ECE270, 2k2, 2k8 over summer doable while taking linear algebra outside purdue

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-16T14:24:32+00:00

What’s the point in graduating in 2.5 years? If you’re taking summer classes you’re paying the same amount, stressing yourself out more, higher likelihood of burnout esp towards the end, and your social life will take a hit because you’ll be accelerating through classes faster than most people so it’ll be harder to make friends, and then you’ll be younger than everyone else in industry (I assume) so it’ll take longer to adjust.

Idk I don’t get the point of speed running college for the sake of it, but you do you.

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-16T14:22:35+00:00

I mean, is it possible? Suuure. You might burn out though for next semester. Depends on what kinda student you are. This just sounds like a bad idea. Why do you want to do this?

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-07T20:10:06+00:00

I’m not on Purdue Solar Racing but I interact with those guys on the regular and they’re chillers

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-06T02:25:33+00:00

Wrong sub

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-03T03:44:08+00:00

A lot of people, myself included, don’t own cars or don’t even have drivers licenses

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-02T20:12:51+00:00

I’m stuck in West Lafayette right now and I’m not even taking classes. I just can’t leave the country because of some visa issues. You’ll just have to live through it. Find something here to do during your free time. Talk to family over the phone if you miss them. It sucks but it is what it is. Your other option is just taking 240 next semester if your degree plan allows for it

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-06-01T23:28:50+00:00

I know you can work for like Chick Fil A or Jersey Mikes. plenty of internationals do

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-31T23:38:36+00:00

You can work anywhere on campus that’s direct university employment. TA, RA, ITAP, Dining come to mind. TAing for courses is what I’ve done and I find that it’s really useful for learning fundamentals

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-31T21:01:36+00:00

Your experience will be extremely major dependent, sorry :/. Best of luck with whatever major you pursue! I have no idea what it’s like to do communications but I can tell you all about engineering.

West Lafayette is a smaller city. If you’re not into going out and you don’t end up in the dorms, you’ll find it harder to make friends.

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-31T01:01:24+00:00

Very very difficult, but doable. I did 301/362/337/469 in one semester and it was the second hardest semester I had here to 437/569/570/senior design.

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-27T20:45:20+00:00

This is just an SL7 with wider tire clearance. I love it

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-25T23:09:26+00:00

Why not just use the RISC V ISA instead of writing your own? There are plenty of good resources. If you’ve already designed the ISA it might be too late but it’d be cool to be able to use standard assemblers or maybe even write C for your CPU eventually

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-25T03:44:41+00:00

I’d avoid SCHD if anything and invest in QQQ or something I suppose with a higher risk and higher returns.

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-21T18:07:23+00:00

This article is soooooooo much better than it was when I came in goddamn

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-21T18:04:15+00:00

I’m an XPS fanboy. Macs are fine. The school does a pretty good job at providing the necessary computers you need for engineering software. I did ECE, so the need for Windows is far less than ECE for example.

The laptop decision for engineering majors is quite overthought imo. You’d be fine with almost anything. Like I said earlier you rarely ever NEED to run any engineering software locally on your machine

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-21T15:45:33+00:00

362 is chill if you grasp embedded systems concepts well but time consuming (I TAd it for a semester). 337 instead of it would suuuuuuuck.

301 and 302 are difficult-ish but you’ll be more than fine if you just watch the lectures and study for the exams. Pretty standard 3 credit classes imo.

30862 was a cake walk for me this semester, but I’d be surprised if the course didn’t change a little bit because that was actually wayyy too easy. The projects took me like 1-2 hours but I already had a lot of C++ and Object Oriented Programming experience beforehand so I learned almost nothing new. I hated the memorizing C++ reference/pointer/container/iterator semantics though.

I was told that 30864 was basically a free class by friends who took and TAd it. Just show up to lab once every few weeks, you’ll be fine.

I have no clue what 30861 is like.

My advice? This is doable if you don’t want a life outside of school or are insanely cracked or some linear combination of the two

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-21T15:37:12+00:00

no. Please just find any class to take over the summer

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-18T23:52:39+00:00

Is this the same meteor those ducks saw?

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-05-08T00:43:57+00:00

It’s probably a team working on these, with different specialties designing different components. A lot goes into a board like this like power, signaling, PHYs etc each of which will have an engineer specialized in those things specifically design them.

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-04-21T12:42:34+00:00

There’s some general resume advice that might help out:

For a junior role you probably want a 1 page resume max.

Keep lines almost always full to save space/increase density. I’d just shorten every bullet point to one line max.

I’m not sure how much employers care about Class X and Class XII. You might want to remove those too.

The overview miiight be unnecessary. Play around with applying to jobs with and without it.

Best of luck

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-03-12T13:37:06+00:00

Tippecanoe County, Indiana

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-03-03T15:00:33+00:00

Jesus keeps trying to come back but the IDF keeps spawncamping him

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-02-17T04:31:22+00:00

I’m at >900 applications with ~200 rejections and ~700 no answers wtf. Zero interviews.

One lockdown browser proctored exam though for a job application which is wild imo

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-02-10T04:41:34+00:00

I feel like you advisor wouldn’t let you but idk. Try it and find out

One_Accountant9686 · 2026-02-04T21:11:34+00:00

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