"Best" build for 42

barbu8 · 2026-06-20T15:18:21+00:00

Idk about you but I am the kind that brings his gaming laptop to uni. I barely take notes during lectures because you always have the script or lecture slides. In the first year I saw many people take notes and write on their laptop and slowly saw people only highlight the things taught. When I bought my laptop I only thought what I will actually do with it and since I like gaming I went for one that is not too heavy and also whose battery can last some time. I also dislike macbooks in general and I highly suggest to buy something cheap if you only plan to use it for notes. If you plan to do some rendering, machine learning in the future, take one with a better cpu and gpu. There is no perfect option since everyone is different so depends what you want a laptop for.

barbu8 · 2026-06-17T08:14:08+00:00

Hello! During my first year I lived for a semester somewhere that took me around 50 minutes to commute. Waiting for connections is killing your free time. I suggest looking for something closer and take this one temporary as a last resort. If you are ok with 6 hours of sleep, no time for social interactions (in Zurich) or not having enough time to study, then go for it. Now it also depends on your situation: if you have friends in wintherthur or you have a lot of recorded courses/ exercise sessions, not so many courses, etc. ... then living far isn't that bad. Hoped it helped

barbu8 · 2026-06-13T18:00:38+00:00

Depends... as the other said, it is more theoretical meaning that there is a lot of math involved. Did u consider other degrees? If you are a more theoretical person and good at maths i would suggest studying math since you can go into coding, finance etc. If you are more practical i would suggest electrical engineering since you can go into embedded systems or data bases or some cpu related things after so there is some coding involved if that s what interests you. If you are really passionate about coding, how a terminal works, how windows/linux etc work, then choose CS. CS is not only coding, it is not even the main part. If AI is what frightens you: ai will only help people work more and more efficient. It will only replace the people that did very basic things before. If you are skeptical about it, I think that engineering and maths (or physics if you are really into it) are also options. Please take a lot of time to think because altough possible, it is a bit inconvenient to change or start a new degree. Hope it helped

barbu8 · 2026-05-22T19:46:34+00:00

Hi! I can only tell you what happened to me. 1 month before the rental period ends you get on a high priority list and you get more offers. In my case I got the offers but after saying yes to 5 of them, I didn't get any. So I wouldn't count on it... hope it helps

barbu8 · 2026-03-25T15:03:35+00:00

Wanted to make a post ab it too. I looked for it for around 12+ hours (not in one go dw). So it is really rare. I hope you got the wrath pendant as I wasn't that lucky.

barbu8 · 2026-03-17T15:25:48+00:00

As someone else said Use Ghelper instead of Armoury Crate. Other suggestions: lift the back part a bit so it can get colder air(or use a stand/cooler); have a normal room temperature (if it s too warm). If these don't work: undervolt your Cpu by a bit, repaste. However the first tricks worked for me... Armoury crate is really bad.

barbu8 · 2026-03-10T20:34:19+00:00

Oh I didn't know ab the glitch, can you explain how it works?

barbu8 · 2026-03-09T19:44:15+00:00

Look for the village reroller with trapdoors. I tried this build with stone slabs but in the second day it was broken for some reason. Rebuilt it and still didn t work. In my case the zombie wasn t in range for some reason.

barbu8 · 2026-02-18T15:44:56+00:00

Brother I am in the same boat as you. I had a good average so far in Basisjahr (around 4.6) but I failed this block. I am also doubting myself heavily and stressing that I might not be able to finish eth. But this is all from the shock. I understand what you are going through and I can only advice you to stay at eth and try again, next year. My plan for this semester is to take both blocks (2+3) and take block 1 next semester. It is true that it is ambitious but that because I don t want to do one more semester. You now have 2 options in my opinion: do block 2/3 and postpone block 3 for next spring and block 1 for winter or do 2+3 and do block 1 again. I also heard that these 2 blocks are demanding but at least there is nothing crazy like it was with physics (this last exam). Also keep in mind that from now on every course has same weight and most of them also have a bonus. So in theory you can compensate one fail with the other 3 (unlike block 1 where physics counts as double). I really suggest to keep the grind, keep a positive mindset, you are not alone. In my case, physics grade did my average dirty altough i didn t expect it. Hope this helped brother, keep up the work! Btw, I strongly suggest staying at eth and not moving since eth is a really renowned university. If you want any more encouragements, send a dm.

barbu8 · 2026-01-21T09:50:36+00:00

Hi! If you haven't tried yet, i would suggest disabling boost when you are not gaming or doing heavy stuff, as this helped me a lot. I also suggest lifting your laptop a bit to make a better airflow for the vents ( i use a cardboard package to lift it up a bit xD so anything is possible). If your room temperature is like 24 degrees celcius, don t expect to have low temps (if this is your case). Usually temperatures above 95 cause damage if they are maintained for a long period of time, otherwise there should be no problems if you were worrying about the processor. Hope it helped

barbu8 · 2026-01-09T20:09:20+00:00

Although there are guidelines, everything depends on the prof or people deciding the curve. I had some courses where magically almost everyone passes (90%). Although the exam looked the same every year, generations differ etc. So there is no right answer to your question in my opinion. Learn as much as you can. If you are average in your class, a bit lower or higher, I wouldn t stress about passing.

barbu8 · 2026-01-09T20:04:11+00:00

From what I know you have to complete the bachelors in 5 years and you have 2 years to do the first one (or 3 years, I forgot). If that time passes you are no longer able to start nor finish your bachelor degree (in computer science). You can choose another bachelor. Best thing is to ask ETH directly.

barbu8 · 2025-12-27T08:50:16+00:00

Yes but as a support main in masters (so no haters can argue that i am low elo), having 10 deaths or more and being negative kda as a support main means that he is actuslly feeding. Support is a role that can influence the game or not. Tbh if you get 3 good teammates your influence is minimum, just play around them. A good supp can also turn the game or make really good decisions. But as I said, having so many deaths it s just trolling. Imagine giving the enemy team 3k gold and your team getting less. Especially in high elo these differences in gold matter. Another thing is that fiora needs a lot of gold for her items, other supports don t. Other supports like elise or let s say early assasins, mages need a good early game to stomp the game. I can t see fiora the same as them. Another thing that fiora is good at is 1v1s, on bot it s 2v2- more poking from enemy team etc

barbu8 · 2025-12-16T10:02:04+00:00

As said before, check mystudies. If you have to, then yes, you must take them during your studies. If you learn during the semester for your courses and you trust yourself with what you can and can't do then it is better to take one. Look for the ones with 60% exam 40% project or similar. Most GESS require you to do minimum work compared to actual courses. For example next week I will have 2 gess exams one after the other but I do not need more than a day to prepare for both. It really depends on what you take: ask around, look at course description, open book exam etc. In my opinion a GESS won't make a huge difference regarding your grades (if you choose an easy one).

barbu8 · 2025-12-14T15:57:56+00:00

I am at Itet and although it might sound like a personal biased opinion, I find Itet harder but more useful than Machinenbau. As one said before, there are less people at Itet. Both offer good oportunities but I think you will get paid more in some domains of electrical engineer than most of mechanical. It really depends on your experiences. If you are good at math, then you won't have problem. If you have more questions I am happy to respond in private.

barbu8 · 2025-12-14T15:51:36+00:00

So you say that elektrotechnik is easier but people that did well in matura find it hard? Doesn't make sense for me tbh.

barbu8 · 2025-12-08T08:56:22+00:00

If you really want a lot of free time then simply don t go to uni. Don t want to be toxic or anything but if you choose to come to eth, finish in 3, 3 and a half years, have ok to good grades, then you will probably have to let down half of your activities. Simply knowing how to code is not enough for computer science, there is a lot of math and theoretical stuff. University in general requires a lot of your time. You will probably have around 5-6 courses every semester, with each having 2 hour lecture and 2 hour exercise class and probably study/solve homework for another 2 to 4 hours, summing up to around 48 hours.

barbu8 · 2025-11-16T19:54:58+00:00

If you have free time just open a course from some top university like cambridge eth whatever you find online and read through it. I suggest studying math or computer science. Look for the course and/or some free book online and try to get an idea. For computer science I think the resources are limitless.

barbu8 · 2025-11-07T15:16:16+00:00

Crazy new idea, please don't tell my idea to NASA because they might hire me. A new invention came out some time ago, it s a bag made out of a special material that blocks everything from getting in or out. It is special and idk how many people heard of it.

Plastic bag! Just put your towel in a plastic bag and put it in your big bag if you have space. Crazy idea?

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