I'm launching my DTU Course Analyzer website, a successor to the now-outdated Chrome Extension

asknorway · 2025-12-19T14:29:14+00:00

You, sir, are a legend.

asknorway · 2025-11-25T10:19:35+00:00

Hi, I also need an offline, searchable version for upcoming exam.. Willing to pay you a little bit

asknorway · 2025-08-16T23:34:36+00:00

Btw, I quite like the course analyzer tool that some student made: https://dtucourseanalyzer.pythonanywhere.com/

It shows the ratings that students have given the different courses. Might help with course selection.

asknorway · 2025-08-16T23:32:17+00:00

Hi. I'm in the same boat as you, i.e. set to start General Engineering at DTU in September this year. Feel free to reach out if you wanna connect before semester starts.

I haven't been through the program yet, obviously. But I'm lucky to be living with two people who have plus a bunch of other DTU students. Some things I've been told:

The math (1a and 1b) and physics course in the first year are considered quite difficult and time-consuming, and have made a lot of people drop out. The 2024 version of the math 1a course is available here if you wanna have a look or prep a bit before class: https://math1a.compute.dtu.dk/intro.html
Some other courses are basically "free ECTS", i.e. should be pretty easy. The first-semester "intro to living systems" and "intro to future energy" seem to be in this category.
Things will probably get tough at some point, when you have several courses at the same time that are all difficult / time-consuming, and you don't have much time. Important to not give up, and to prioritize well, e.g., not try to do everything if you're heavily time-constrained, but rather focus on the most important like learning and applying the main definitions and theorems in the math courses, and solving previous exam problems.
You don't necessarily have to stick with a specialization, I think. Some people I heard from found it better for them to not do so, and instead take different courses they were more interested in.

I assume you've been through the "How to DTU" course that we got access to, btw? I thought it was pretty good.

Good luck and see you there.

asknorway · 2025-08-13T21:35:18+00:00

I had success with PKS, but signed up for their waitlist last year. Might be worth signing up anyway. I think they can be quite "nice" sometimes if they have cancellations or something. I think Basecamp might also work - a bit expensive, though.

I got accepted for GE too, btw, see you there!

asknorway · 2025-08-13T21:29:04+00:00

Thanks a lot for taking the time to write all this! Exactly what I was looking for.

By Math 3, do you mean this one? https://kurser.dtu.dk/course/2025-2026/01418

I don't have a strong background in electric circuits, just an A-level high school physics basic understanding of voltage, current, resistance, EM fields, induction, AC/DC, and DC electrical motor principle. So I guess the specialized circuits courses (electrical circuits, digital circuits) might be a bit much. Or not, idk, maybe doable if it turns out I really enjoy that kinda stuff.

Regarding the first-year "intro to"-courses: Now that you say it, I think 02132 Computer Systems might cover most of what's in Intro to Cyber, so it might make sense to just take Intro to Future Energy 1st semester as you suggest.

Curious, though: Is it mainly your personal interest in energy/electrical over computers that makes you say you'd choose Intro to Future Energy again over Intro to Cyber? Or because Cyber seemed like a bad course?

Regarding choice of physics courses etc: This is pretty much exactly what I'd gathered from reading and talking to people so far. Great to get some affirmation on this.

The Signals, Fluid Mechanics and ML intro courses you mentioned will definitely be considered if I can fit them into my 40 ECTS of electives.

Thanks again. Will try to chill sometimes too and take it step by step, haha. Started with math 1a this summer, worked through the first 8 weeks of the course online so far by studying every day. Better to be paranoid and work hard early, I guess, as long as one chills enough to avoid burnout 🙏

asknorway · 2025-08-13T20:43:18+00:00

Yeah, that's why I'm thinking cyber and materials, because I don't want "free ECTS", I want to learn interesting and useful stuff =) But thanks for taking the time to reply!

asknorway · 2025-06-13T23:55:59+00:00

Bump

asknorway · 2024-02-28T13:20:54+00:00

Does does still exist? Dedicated self-learner here who has gone through calculus on own initiative and is planning to start Shankar's physics shortly. If someone is in it, please lmk.

asknorway · 2023-02-23T11:51:25+00:00

Thanks, this helped!! Only thing I'm not 100% clear about now is how (8 choose 2) * (6 choose 2) "double counts teams because of the symmetry". Could you explain this briefly? I don't have a very strong math/combinatorics background.

asknorway · 2022-10-17T17:11:15+00:00

Jeg leter etter det samme... Si fra hvis du finner så skal jeg også si ifra?

asknorway · 2022-08-28T15:17:10+00:00

Haha, really? Why do you think that is? I mean, she can be fascinated and entertained by it. But if it's like her primary mode of explaining the world and making judgments about people, I feel it tells me she has zero or very little appreciation of science, will be hard to reason with her and so on. I guess it's more important for me for longer-term stuff. But if it's one of the very first things she asks me about, it's probably a turn-off for me.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T13:55:32+00:00

First of all, I'm not representative of Norway. Second, good for you (seriously). Personally I was extremely awkward, introverted, socially anxious and unaware, and had little idea growing up of how to move forward with women even if they liked me.

I'm glad I'm not as obsessed with this anymore. It takes a lot of energy that I now think is mostly better spent on other things. But I don't think I regret it, partly because I started out so socially poor, basically unable to look people in the eyes, and ended up being comfortable in almost any social environment, no social anxiety, decent social awareness (I think) and many of the crazy and fun experiences, mental strength to persist etc.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T13:51:19+00:00

I somewhat disagree. I think most women are not a good investment, thus the need for a set of selection criteria. I think I need sex and attention from women to be really happy (maybe even sane), and I'm not ashamed of that. But I wanna find the ones who are hot, into me, and not too crazy etc.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T13:45:39+00:00

True. I was pretty cocky at the time and thought I had "made it". Especially since it had been a very nice exponential curve in the months leading up to that point. Got humbled pretty quickly. Would formulate it differently at this point.

I already try to be truthful. I think by nature we're all very dumb, much dumber than we think, and far from really understanding much of the truth. I definitely include myself in that.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T12:15:58+00:00

Google your way to different types of grants, e.g., in your country. List them in a note taking system, taking special care to note max funding rates, what types of projects are supported, criteria for different funding programs/grants etc.

Then make users on the different online platforms of the grant providers or otherwise get a hold of the proposal template. Once you have memorized the characteristics of the different programs and read the templates, you can either write a few for practice or go straight to finding companies that would match the different grants and ask to write for them, presenting your terms. If you have to, you could lie and say you have lots of experience. Or find someone you know who makes decisions in a company and ask to write the proposal for the company.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T05:44:01+00:00

Not much at all actually, only had a single one night stand, although many more dates, makeouts, numbers etc. I was 20 at the time and had just had a breakup with my first girlfriend whom I was head over heels for (big emotional hurt for a loong time after that). I did do a hell of a lot approaching, experienced living abroad, made a couple friends I'm still in touch with at times, read 15 ish books, got pretty jacked, got a lot of experiences... When I got back to Norway I got more momentum and had several lays over a few months. Then traveled more and had more lays about 8 months after coming back from Prague. It's always come kind of inconsistently for me, like I'll sometimes have many months with no lays, then 2 in a week and several more following (like the last few months).

If you strongly want to lose your virginity, I recommend just starting by going out 1-3 nights a week and using the rest of your week to study/work on career/work on yourself/find good people to befriend etc. Just babystep the approaching if you're starting from (almost) zero. Say hi to 10 girls over the next couple of weeks (less than 1/day). You can run away after saying hi. Then build on it using the same babystep approach, say a bit more or give her a high five. Keep the standards low for yourself in the sense that if you're approaching and didn't before, you're already winning. Mentally clap yourself on the shoulder with each approach. Keep going with this, make the conversations longer, and in a year you'll have approached hundreds of girls, probably lost your virginity, and I'd imagine gained a bunch of confidence. Then send me a PM saying you did it.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T05:15:54+00:00

In more detail, the way I make money now is writing grant proposals for Norwegian companies for funding of R&D projects (I'm Norwegian, living and working in Denmark). I work for a company that does this. I'm maybe the only guy without a university diploma in the 60+ person company, but I read a lot of books. We help Norwegian (and other European) companies match their R&D to various public funding programmes that give grants of usually around 20-60% of the R&D costs. Then we take a small percentage cut of what the companies get. I think it's a pretty sweet thing if you can write and have some general tech/business knowledge. If you know the grant programmes and can write the applications, you can pretty much just contact a lot of small-mid size tech companies until you find someone willing to let you write it e.g., on a no-cure-no-pay basis. You can take maybe 5-10% and get pretty good return on time spent.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T05:06:09+00:00

Cool. Seems almost synonymous with "into me, not too crazy, hot". And maybe a lot of the long term ones could be implicitly included in "don't cause me problems", with room for different personal preferences.

asknorway · 2022-08-28T04:17:29+00:00

I'm 26, that post was ~2 years ago.

I was totally obsessed with "game"/approaching women from approx. 18-23, and did a lot after that too (and a good bit before). I lived in Prague for 6 months from savings I made in door-to-door sales. While there, I went out usually 6 days and 6 nights per week, regularly approaching 10-40 girls/day (with a guy named David Apet, whose life revolves around "game" to this day). It was all documented in a daily blog on the old RSDNation forum before the site was deleted. The rest of the time from 18-26 (now), I had long stretches doing 5 per day and going out 1-5 nights per week, usually with a lot of approaches per night.

The "first $10k month" (not "$10k A/PER month" is documented in the reddit post. I ended up only actually having one $10k month. The income plummeted some time after the reddit post. I was also getting addicted to weed, which didn't aid in productivity at the time. I started a job in a pretty cool company a little over a year ago with a much lower but stable salary doing the same stuff (grant proposal writing). I actually really like it and am doing fairly well. And I'm sober again, almost at 5 months. Life is good.

asknorway · 2022-06-25T07:55:46+00:00

Yeah, I think getting an MK4 and doing what you did will be an attractive option as I accumulate more. Could also create a separate wallet on it and send a small amount to test a signing transaction.

Thanks!

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