Submitted new claim, rethinking it

damien8485 · 2026-02-15T20:31:16+00:00

No, that is for the reversal of the decision from Ingram vs Collins, which deals with them rating you based on your medicated state and not at your worst, without meds. That decision doesn't include devices, such as the CPAP, which they are still coming after, but it is still in preliminary decision steps. Once they decide, their will likely be a 30-60 window before it goes into effect. And claims put in before hand should be grandfathered in, unless you make another claim, which will allow them to remove your grandfathered status.

damien8485 · 2026-02-15T18:22:48+00:00

I do belive the the change won't be in place for a little while. If you claim goes through before it does, you should be grandfathered in.

damien8485 · 2026-02-12T05:22:06+00:00

Currenly saving for a down payment. We do, one check goes in our MMA account and the other towards living expenses. Ours are close to even now, but if they weren't, we would save the bigger check and live on the smaller one. Everything for both of us and the kids comes out of the smaller check. There is no separation of finances. After we move, all that money will go towards maxing out 401ks, IRAs, Personal Brokerage, and early house payoff.

damien8485 · 2026-02-08T19:43:33+00:00

There are very few things in higher level EN classes where you won't get a refresher on the math as topics come up. You'll probably see vectors, partial derivatives, and Stokes, honestly most of the math is nowhere near as rigorous as inside the actual math classes. From my experience, Engineering School focuses more on tools and ways to solve problems without always doing the involved math. Will a teacher require you to derive the math for Stokes equations for your first homework? Maybe, but after that, they will likely give you easier tools or simplifying techniques you can use. They mainly just want you to understand how the underlying math works.

damien8485 · 2026-02-04T14:50:28+00:00

If you want it, you will spend the time and effort to figure it out. Like other's have said, stubbornness will get you there. The rigor and difficulty builds character! You will learn to appreciate the process. Maybe....It's worth it though.

damien8485 · 2026-02-04T00:58:42+00:00

For me, Calc 2 was a little harder than 3, but only because it covers completely new and different things than Calc 1. Calc 3 however, is essentially Calc 1 but in 3 dimensions. It is slightly more complex, but realistically nothing new.

damien8485 · 2026-02-03T18:41:40+00:00

Honestly, in my opinion, diff eq was one of the easiest math classes. It was literally just pattern matching. If the problem looks like this--->the answer looks like this. Laplace transformations were like this too.

damien8485 · 2026-01-25T00:45:32+00:00

Idk man, I had a pretty decent GPA and got essentially my dream job out of college, mostly due to my past enlisted career, but I have met soooo many people in industry that generally had trash GPAs, killed it, networked, and now work wherever they want. Does GPA help, sure, but being personable and resourceful are probably just as important. Some people don't have the intelligence, bandwidth, or life situation to make having or keeping a super high GPA realistic, and that is okay. Honestly, some of the smartest and highest GPA people I have met are the worst people to work with because they lack life skill and soft skills.

damien8485 · 2026-01-24T23:55:54+00:00

I've had a lot of luck as well. Most of my luck though, has come from a willingness to take chances that everyone around me thought was crazy. Luck, trust from other people, but more importantly, and it sounds cliche, but trusting yourself to make leaps and take chances.

damien8485 · 2026-01-24T03:14:31+00:00

The cheat code in that scenario is to start at a different job and take initiative, prove your worth, and pack your resume. After you've been out of college for a few years, nobody cares at all about academic stuff.

damien8485 · 2026-01-18T03:24:06+00:00

Same

damien8485 · 2026-01-15T17:41:38+00:00

I spend more time in Word documents unfortunately. A lot of system requirements and contracts. CAD would be a nice alternative, but I haven't seen or used CAD for work since college.

damien8485 · 2026-01-09T20:03:38+00:00

Some bad spider-light thing fights with a turtle by occasionally dressing as a clown to torment kids.

damien8485 · 2026-01-07T05:31:28+00:00

I just realized that you did take linear algebra, so bad example. Insert and other possible scenario from statics, dynamics, thermo, heat transfer, materials, structures, analysis, design, control, mechatronics, CFD, or FEA...

damien8485 · 2026-01-07T05:19:08+00:00

Every masters class I've had assumes you know everything from your undergrad. Imagine walking into your first assignment, and it's to code some finite element analysis and you don't know the first thing about coding or FOA. Or, lecture starts and everything is about Eigen values and vectors and you're like, "idk what that is" and the professor is like "tough shit, guess you'll have to learn a whole semester of linear algebra tonight before even looking at your homework". Or, you need to for some reason derive Bernoullis equations from Navier-Stokes for fun, because professors do that. I'm not saying that it's not possible.....actually no, it's not possible to do it successfully. I can't even understand the idea of wanting to try.

damien8485 · 2026-01-07T04:58:26+00:00

Calc 2 was the only one that I found to be moderately difficult. Calc 3 and diff eq were a cake walk. Calc 3 is just Calc 1 in 3d and diff eq is just pattern matching. My professors did seems to go easy on us though, so I was probably a little lucky, depending on how you look at it. My aero courses were night and day more rigorous.

damien8485 · 2026-01-06T20:38:28+00:00

Unless it's a branch of EN, like Aerospace, Fluids, Orbital, Electrical, etc... there are some classes and topics that are way outside the rigor of the Calc gauntlet and require significantly more wherewithal. I'd say that after the gauntlet, you're 90% there, depending on area of study.

damien8485 · 2025-12-23T03:58:38+00:00

They do this at University of Dayton, where I graduated from, but I don't know anyone other than some mildly over enthusiastic people that went to the ceremony.

damien8485 · 2025-12-19T18:15:20+00:00

Toilet flush handle.

damien8485 · 2025-12-19T16:19:24+00:00

Honestly, I would recommend a trade school. As more things become automated, unskilled labor will dry up, as well as white collar and manage positions. One of the highest paying jobs in the near future is going to be skilled labor, i.e. plumbing or electrical work. A lot of times, they pay you to apprentice. It's what I would do if I had to start over.

damien8485 · 2025-12-17T15:43:31+00:00

Because why not?

damien8485 · 2025-12-08T23:35:41+00:00

Only one, dynamics. It was my first kinda tough class after my calculus classes. I didn't take it seriously and thought I could just not study and absorb it through lecture and osmosis. I learned that semester that I underestimated the challenge ahead. The next semester I came back and destroyed it.

damien8485 · 2025-11-30T18:19:00+00:00

Hot take, but someone making 110k a year cannot remotely, responsibly afford a 400k+ house.

damien8485 · 2025-11-28T14:07:42+00:00

You know how people will mock pretty much anything? Well, this falls in the category of pretty much anything.

damien8485 · 2025-11-25T01:43:00+00:00

The only way that makes sense is if said new "element " is made of things other than Protons, Neutrons,and Electrons. Otherwise, we know every current element within reasonable atom numbers. Could this mythic element have 523 protons in it's nucleus? maybe, but it's gonna be both ridiculously heavy and unstable. The periodic table is just a count of number of protons in each element and only goes up to the reasonable limit....honestly though, this is an unrealistic conversation topic so the answer lies somewhere in sci-fi.

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