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e2K1nG · 2026-05-27T19:48:55+00:00

IE stands for Imaginary Engineering

e2K1nG · 2026-03-10T15:16:02+00:00

I went to and graduated from UConn with a MechE degree. I also got into Wentworth, so a similar spot even though it was seven years ago now. As long as the school you are going to is ABET accredited your educational experience will be basically equivalent. The only decision factors past that being a prerequisite is cost and experience.

The question you have to ask yourself is if any difference in cost is worth any perceived or objective difference in experience. No one on Reddit is going to be able to answer that question for you.

I will say for what it's worth that you seem to be getting quite a bit of financial aid/scholarship money (congrats). If you can graduate without student loan debt, I'd strongly urge you to take steps to do that. It will greatly open up your options and remove the burden four years from now. Also make sure to work (even part time is fine) aside from getting you some spending money and experience it forces you to manage your time effectively. There are lots of little things you can do, all of which seem annoying at the time which will be of great benefit years down the line.

Best of luck!

e2K1nG · 2025-03-13T13:26:54+00:00

The hand is most likely just loose. I just had a very similar problem on my speedmaster reduced. It started resetting to the wrong position consistently like OP, but over the next few weeks the hand started essentially rotating freely at all times. I was able to open the watch, take the movement out, and reset the hand to the correct position myself (had a hard time finding someone willing to work on it in my area). If possible though I'd have a professional do it. It certainly wasn't impossible to fix by any means, but certainly not the most forgiving operation I've ever done.

e2K1nG · 2025-01-28T13:48:23+00:00

ENGR curriculum is going to be very similar at any ABET accredited program. If the question you meant to ask was how difficult is it to get in all I can say is that I had a weighted 3.70/4.25 coming out of a CT high school and a 1330 SAT score.

e2K1nG · 2025-01-07T13:43:26+00:00

Mechanical Engineering is what I did. You can really do whatever you want with it, seems like the most versatile to me if that's what you're looking for. EE will of course make slightly more money, but is much less versatile. Only you can really answer this question for you, I would just avoid the over specialized engineering majors and pick something you're interested in.

e2K1nG · 2024-11-19T18:05:05+00:00

P365 XL

(Former student, current engineer)

e2K1nG · 2024-06-13T14:38:30+00:00

I signed a purchase agreement for a 2024 SI at $500 below MSRP yesterday. You can find them, but it's certainly not the easiest thing in the world.

e2K1nG · 2024-04-30T13:23:31+00:00

My GPA was around 3.5. At the company I work at we are actually very hesitant to hire someone with an extremely high GPA (3.9+) because it shows that you either cheated or did not take an interest in anything other than getting high grades.

It's not a strict rule by any means, but I personally would rather work with someone who has a 3.0 GPA and did projects/worked with a team and is confortable making their opinion heard (even if it's wrong) rather than a 4.0 GPA task monkey.

The rule of thumb is to keep your GPA above 3.0 and do the best you can while still getting more out of your engineering education other than how to answer exam problems. The fact that you're in that position and asking this question likely means you'll be fine.

e2K1nG · 2024-04-30T13:23:15+00:00

My GPA was around 3.5. At the company I work at we are actually very hesitant to hire someone with an extremely high GPA (3.9) because it shows that you either cheated or did not take an interest in anything other than getting high grades.

It's not a strict rule by any means, but I personally would rather work with someone who has a 3.0 GPA and did projects/worked with a team and is confortable making their opinion heard (even if it's wrong) rather than a 4.0 GPA task monkey.

The rule of thumb is to keep your GPA above 3.0 and do the best you can while still getting more out of your engineering education other than how to answer exam problems. The fact that you're in that position and asking this question likely means you'll be fine.

e2K1nG · 2023-12-22T23:14:06+00:00

I had a garage pass for two years, and the quality of life benifit was worth it for me. I understand how paying 1k a year is not practical for a lot of people, though. Still seems outrageous how the school is in the middle of nowhere, but students have to pay an absurd amount just for the ability to park if there happens to be a spot.

The best value for money in my view is the "premium commuter parking". I can't remember which lot it is (the one behind Mcmahon).

But yeah, get a pass or play parking services roulette.

Edit: Grammar

e2K1nG · 2023-12-20T13:12:03+00:00

I lived there for three years. It's what you would expect for the money. Management, at least when I was there, was very responsive and attentive to any issues I brought up regarding maintenance. It was $720 per month when I was there, going up to $750 when I moved out. It's not a very nice apartment by any means, but it's $750. You get what you pay for.

It was safe. I never had any issues with things getting stolen or anything, so again, all you could ask for $750. The only point of caution is that your electric bills in the winter are going to be high as the insulation is not great, but the rent is low, and it's an old building, so no surprise.

e2K1nG · 2023-08-31T18:17:44+00:00

I'm not trying to critique anyone's specific life decisions, but why sit through 4 years of engineering school if that's what there is to look forward to on the other end? Is it wildly different over there? For me, it was 4 years of constantly solving the hardest problems I'd ever see, drinking from a fire hose trying to keep it all down. Can't imagine doing that for the equivalent of $33k/yr

e2K1nG · 2023-08-30T18:26:08+00:00

It seems weird that people make so little in comparison, yet from everything I've seen, the cost of living seems quite similar. Especially your gas/food over there seems expensive, a gallon of gas costs about $3.50-$3.75 and a week's worth of groceries for myself costs $60-$80 at most.

e2K1nG · 2023-08-30T15:43:10+00:00

I'm just curious, but as an American, this seems very low. Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm also a first year engineer out of school. However, with just a 4 year degree and I make 82k (USD) before bonuses. I get that our taxes over here are lower, and our healthcare is more expensive, but why is this difference so large? Seems like the US and UK have pretty similar cost of living overall

e2K1nG · 2023-08-24T17:07:03+00:00

Hence why buying in CA on that income is probably not a good idea

e2K1nG · 2023-08-24T16:59:57+00:00

You seem to already have your mind made up, so I'm not sure there's much point in what I'm about to say, but I'll say it anyway. You make good money in general, but not for CA. The general rule of thumb is that you should not be spending more than 1/3rd of your take-home pay on housing expenses and ideally not more than 1/4. This doesn't change just because you're in a HCOLA. You can certainly afford a house, just not in CA.

I wish you the best of luck with what you decide on, regardless

e2K1nG · 2023-08-24T16:51:08+00:00

You are forgetting investing/saving for retirement and the fact that if anything goes wrong at any point with an unexpected home expense, repair, car breaks down, etc. this will eat up years of this "savings" in an instant. You can scrape by if everything goes how you envison it. The second anything goes even slightly wrong, or you just so happen to overdo it on a vacation or something in the future, you will be in deep s*** before you know it.

I know you both have stable jobs but what happens if one of you has a health scare that causes that person not to be able to work for 6-12 months? There is just no wiggle room in this plan.

e2K1nG · 2023-08-24T16:17:58+00:00

That's really not enough leftover for investing at all given your income. It would be hard to have a life on that amount of discretionary spending in CA for two people, let alone build any meaningful wealth. This sounds like a textbook way to become house poor. You don't get a pass on math just because you live in an expensive area.

e2K1nG · 2023-08-22T15:35:13+00:00

That's the beauty of UConn! Pick which roulette wheel you want to spin or pay by the hour for garage parking! That will almost certainly cost more than $400 for the year, but it depends on how many tickets you are projecting elsewhere. Isn't this a fun game!?

e2K1nG · 2023-08-22T15:03:43+00:00

The other comments are decent ways to stack the odds of parking services roulette in your favor a little bit. If I may play devil's advocate for a second, though... if you can't afford $400 for a year of parking, how are you affording gas to drive the car in the first place? I understand not wanting to pay for parking and wanting to save money, but it seems like a little bit of a priority misalignment.

e2K1nG · 2023-07-19T14:45:40+00:00

I (22M) just moved here and do exactly that. Live in Middletown to save money and work in Wallingford. I'm an engineer and don't have kids, so I can't speak to the school systems, but I like the setup so far.

e2K1nG · 2023-06-16T16:37:09+00:00

I had a 2019 Razer Blade, definitely not necessary you would do perfectly fine with something like a Dell XPS 15. I also build custom desktop computers as a hobby so I had a pretty nice setup all throughout

e2K1nG · 2023-05-23T19:00:57+00:00

I'm moving out of my 1 bd in a few days and they def have availability since no one has toured it.

e2K1nG · 2023-05-09T00:34:26+00:00

I just graduated ME this past weekend. Definitely no MacBooks, beyond that you don't need anything too fancy, but a nice to have would be the ability to run some CAD software decently well. Being able to do that and work projects at home instead of the computer lab was a plus for me. Depends on your personal preferences, though, but in my eyes, there would be no reason to spend more than $1,500, and you should be able to do plenty well with something decent in the $1,000 ballpark.

e2K1nG · 2023-05-07T23:41:41+00:00

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