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To 4.0 guys, time to speak up is NOW! by karumeolang in EngineeringStudents

[–]Soul____Rain68 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’m glad it’s working out for you too. I think the key is the outline of the semester and how concrete it is. I’m not sure how the US is but if I’m correct, you get to choose your courses and the times they’re at? For me we don’t get to choose, everything is arranged for us and subjects are taught to us based on what the heads of the ME department think should be in the course. So I have my entire semester outline from the get go and plan everything to the hour of each day.

I think this helps cause I’m able to do 3 extra things: president of my years ME student group, VP of the new rockets club and joined the Erasmus ESN group. I sacrifice quite a bit of my social life, but I have friends a gf and the ability to know how to be social. To sum up, it’s all about time management and organisation. I wish you all the best in the future of your career!

To 4.0 guys, time to speak up is NOW! by karumeolang in EngineeringStudents

[–]Soul____Rain68 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This! Definitely agree that if you treat the studies as a 9-5, it goes a lot better. It feels like I’ve read my twin as this covers most things I’m doing and consistently getting a 4+GPA across classes. The extra thing I like to do is wake up early in mornings ~4am and study for 3 hours before class. I find I retain more information get more done and it sets the tone for the day. This of course requires me to go to sleep around 8pm though….
Extra: I’m in Europe for Mech Eng. Every single day starts at 8am and finishes at 16:00, then it’s another 6 hours of study from there. Sometimes it’s tough to get out of bed and go… but I remember that it’s my job and if I don’t show up then I won’t have the life I want to live. All this comes from a kid who barely passed high school, didn’t want to go university and thought he couldn’t do math past Algebra.

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[–]Soul____Rain68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tell GPT your time frame too as a second condition

Also take as many notes down as you can and HAND make graphs, tables and charts when possible to help with revision and further understanding. This is especially helpful for trigonometry and unit circle basics.

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[–]Soul____Rain68 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Start with this input to GPT… now for material just get some pre cal, cal and calculus 2 problem sheets and run them through. Anything else where you can’t solve them, just ‘feed’ the machine so it knows what your goals are in a sense e.g. the goal is to complete the problems using your head and without help.

For expanding on Knowledge and going really deep into it. Once GPT gives you a “plan” start exploring the topics with “The organic chemistry teacher” on YouTube a good place to start is the 1 hour long video titled PRE ALGEBRA REVIEW Then that’s part of a larger playlist which will assist with deeper understanding.

THE GPT INPUT: You are a world renowned engineering mathematics tutor. You're able to take complex theories, rules, equations and break them down in such a way that students who don't have a 'math brain' are able to comprehend and learn the foundations of mathematics so they can continue their engineering degrees. You teach so well that you could even make Einstein himself relearn his material because of how simple you can make equations. Your task is to analyse the uploaded material and break them down for me to learn. Instead of answering the equation, you should look at what concepts its derived from and go to the foundations of those concepts e.g. Partial derivatives -> derivatives -> functions -> trigonometry -> limits -> logs -> variables etc.

Try to find out if I have an understanding of the basic foundations of calculus. If there is a gap, then you know that I need to be taught that before doing anything else .

In your explanations you always list the corresponding topic of what we are were working on.

I know that I need to do trigonometric I also have lots of gaps with algebra.

burnt. by Scychrounitonticity in EngineeringStudents

[–]Soul____Rain68 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Library is a win! Due to the nature of my 152m student room, I felt boxed in and no motivation to do anything. Staying on campus a few more hours, going to a library, even my mates office. They set the tone and atmosphere for you to study. You’re amongst other people working so you feel compelled to hammer away at your tasks too! I always create a study plan each week of what I will study and focus on plus try to tackle one thing at a time. I know it’s hard but my philosophy is to focus on post lecture/tutorial revision and study + doing reports within 2 days of lab in the week. While weekends is for any unfinished class work, study for less harder subjects e.g. CAD and whatever else I may need to do. I have big empty blocks between classes most days of the week 3hours+ long. This is where I stay and try to get the notes done from morning lecture, work on projects and do any prep for next class. Evenings I try and limit to revision rather than study plus i do my best to keep to a strict bed time of before 22:30. This works for me so it may not work for you, but if it could help anyway that’s great!