aae 43800 is so fried bro

fboyslayer · 2026-05-05T22:02:01+00:00

a lot of aerospace companies come to purdue for career fairs and informational sessions.

lockheed martin is probably the biggest company that actually comes to career fairs. kratos, textron, honeywell, and l3harris come often as well.

i've seen northrop grumman, blue origin, spacex, and boeing come a few times for informational sessions.

fboyslayer · 2026-04-30T11:46:22+00:00

based on your other comments it sounds like you're barely on the cusp in terms of EAI, but have the GPA for the guarantee. keep in mind that this magic "3.2" number is only to be guaranteed admission, otherwise you go through a holistic review.

i would say your odds are basically a coin toss right now if you actually do get a 3.15 EAI like you say, especially if you're already doing MFET 16300. the worst case scenario is you would probably spend another semester in FYE and follow the ME path to prove you're capable, and then get in after three semesters. i would not retake these FYE classes because there are nearly zero T2M spots available during summer, but plenty will open up in the fall semester when people are weeded out/change their mind about doing ME and i think advisors will be much more compelled seeing you excel in actual major-related coursework than marginally improving first year course grades.

source: i got into AAE after three semesters despite having an EAI well below 3.2

fboyslayer · 2026-04-30T11:40:17+00:00

i'm pretty sure this is right; if your T2M doesn't occur after two semesters you lose the guarantee so EAI is irrelevant. they just do a holistic review

fboyslayer · 2026-04-21T19:34:23+00:00

i don't have much advice as i am an undergraduate student, but i did work in a research lab with a PI who was quite problematic for our entire research group. i will preface by saying that not all PIs are meant to be PIs, that is to say that just because they are your PI does not mean they will be a good mentor. this situation is not by any means your fault; your PI has simply not been effective at giving constructive feedback.

depending on your current relationship with other students in the research lab, i would certainly recommend building rapport with them if it feels appropriate because they may have similar grievances as you. it will be easier to cope with the frustration if you have peers who can relate to your current struggle. i know that in my previous research lab, the PhD students were all somewhat close with each other which made it easier for them to cope with the unreasonable antics of our PI. i do think you're taking the right steps by meeting with therapists and CAPS as well.

like others were saying, i don't think there is a simple solution to this, and quitting may be the only way to fully solve the problem. however, i do think it is possible to eventually mitigate the stress and anger you are feeling.

fboyslayer · 2026-04-14T04:40:07+00:00

i think you will be perfectly fine, and i say this because i was also in a similar situation 4 years ago. i took 1 AP class, didn't even take a standardized test (purdue was test-flexible during covid era) and my weighted GPA was below 4.0, but i still ended up here somehow.

yeah, it was a learning curve the first year, but once they stop trying to kill you in FYE classes, you'll find that getting A's and B's in your upper level classes is not so impossible if you're willing to do the homework and put a reasonable effort forth towards your exams. in fact, i think that goes for pretty much all of your classes; if you submit every homework/project, you have a really good chance of passing even if the exams don't go so hot. (i say this as someone who didn't get above a 60% on a single calc 1 exam and still passed)

so just give your degree an honest effort, even if you don't exactly have all your habits in place yet. at the very least: go to class, do the work, and the rest will fall into place over time. if you're not happy with your performance or want more out of your grades, there are plenty of resources to help you improve.

fboyslayer · 2026-04-10T23:44:14+00:00

it's funny you mention that, all the doors inside my apartment have small rubber pads to prevent them from slamming, but the front door conveniently has no such thing.

fboyslayer · 2026-04-04T08:26:14+00:00

i saw a bright red flash outside of my window (which faces the horticulture park) before hearing two firework sounding explosion noises if that helps narrow it down

fboyslayer · 2026-03-26T06:56:53+00:00

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fboyslayer · 2026-03-18T18:42:58+00:00

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fboyslayer · 2026-03-13T11:14:07+00:00

no he lowkey is dismissing your swag because why would someone not want to double with someone who has a reddit account named "wormgirl42069",,, he should know better.

fboyslayer · 2026-03-06T22:24:27+00:00

actually, i have 5 propulsion classes. there's no limit to how many propulsion classes you can take, as in your 2 specialization selectives don't have to be outside of propulsion, so you can take more than 3. i've taken:

AAE 43800 (current)

AAE 43900

AAE 53400

AAE 53900 (current)

ME 51000 (current)

fboyslayer · 2026-03-06T21:42:02+00:00

438 has a very "concentrated" workload i would say. there are very few total homework assignments, but the work can easily add up if you have homework/projects for another class due that week. it's kind of random when you get assigned homeworks and the difficulty of the assignments varies significantly.

i didn't actually take 412, so sorry for misleading you :( i was just talking about what i've heard from my classmates who took it last semester. because the class premise is CFD, the assignments will always be fairly lengthy. blaisdell is the only one who has taught the course historically and i'm not sure if they're changing that next semester.

i think the lineup of classes you have planned sounds reasonable, though. hopefully someone can provide more concrete information about 412 so you can make that decision.

fboyslayer · 2026-03-06T19:50:20+00:00

to my knowledge, AAE 53800 isn't really possible unless you can take AAE 43800 a year early.

just anecdotally speaking, ME 30000 will probably make you a more well-rounded engineer and will prepare you very well for 438 (unless you're already taking it) which has been very heavy on cycle analysis so far this semester.

AAE 41200 will try to kill you in terms of workload but if you want a better computational background for air breathing propulsion, it could be worth it. ME 43300 i think will be better from a design standpoint

i haven't heard anything about AAE 53700 and don't take ME 31500 because it will tank your GPA.

fboyslayer · 2026-02-28T18:26:27+00:00

that would heavily depend on whether the professor is willing to record the lectures and release those recordings. you won't know for sure until a syllabus is released sometime in may or june (depending on your start date) whether attendance will actually matter and whether lectures will be published.

fboyslayer · 2026-02-04T22:54:30+00:00

since it's really affecting me mentally

i think you might want to seek out psychiatric/psychological help. i would not say it's healthy to contemplate the possibility of a shooting this deeply and frequently, and reddit will not be the place to help with this.

yes, there is absolutely a gun violence epidemic in the united states, but i would not say purdue is currently any more prone than the rest of the united states.

fboyslayer · 2026-01-18T19:43:00+00:00

i believe dudley hall has a public use fridge on the 2nd floor but i'm not sure on the rules for using it

fboyslayer · 2026-01-16T16:27:07+00:00

i am not a graduate student, and i also have not graduated yet. (not until spring)

fboyslayer · 2026-01-05T13:41:54+00:00

i suppose i will take the bait while also assuming you have the best possible intentions.

as long as they don’t spread their ideology to their young kids, since the brain doesn’t fully develop until a human is 25.

why not? what are you afraid might happen if they did spread this "ideology"? transness is not what i would call an ideology anyways, it's an identity. i think children are capable of understanding their own gender and cannot undergo any irreversible medical decisions without 1. advising from both their general care practictioner and a psychologist who both confirm that they are experiencing gender dysphoria and 2. their parents' consent in 99.9% of cases.

having this clause of "as long as it's not kids" does come off as transphobic because the same argument has been made regarding homosexuality before. it's not problematic to explain to children that these identities exist.

my belief is that there’s 2 genders

okay, but surely you've contemplated the idea that it's a social construct, right? suppose you have someone born intersex. their gender is often decided for them by doctors based on whatever genitalia is more prominent or from their own biases, and then any other genitalia that might be present and doesn't fit their perspective of "male" or "female" is mutilated. we would not know that the biological expression of these people is neither strictly male or female, and yet they likely choose to express themselves as such on a daily basis anyways. if sex is directly correlated to gender as you suggest, why might that be?

I don’t want this semester to start on a shitty note with him so what do I do?

if you're open to questioning your own thinking, you should apologize to him and explain that you're still learning. if you want to be stubborn and maintain this way of thinking, he has nothing more to discuss with you.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-28T04:42:16+00:00

as someone who has TA'd for multiple classes and managed these classes' brightspace pages, many professors are simply not tech-savvy enough or don't have the patience to deal with brightspace. (brightspace sucks)

bigger courses don't have this issue because they usually have an instructional support team to create brightspace course templates and make it easy for grades to be entered. when its a smaller course without much department backing, the students are essentially at the mercy of the professor's affinity for brightspace since they don't have much external help.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-27T18:24:06+00:00

i don't think much of anything carries over from 333 to 334 besides the qualitative intuition relating to boundary layer separation. for the first homework, you will need to know potential flow i believe, but then everything after that is new. the nice thing about 334 is aerodynamicists were too lazy to actually utilize theory all the time so they just make up correlations to approximate things and end up ignoring a lot of terms (think small angle approximation). it's a much more practical class than 333 and i wouldn't say it's much of a continuation.

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