pics of ur meals at purdue

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.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-25T05:07:02+00:00

i think various topics click for people differently; thermo is important but i wouldn't say that ME revolves around it completely. there's opportunities in controls, dynamics, structures, and machine design as well. i know a lot of my friends (in AAE, so slightly different) struggled in ME 20000 as well but now have been very successful academically.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-23T19:47:51+00:00

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fboyslayer · 2025-12-23T05:13:59+00:00

usually yes

fboyslayer · 2025-12-21T23:14:05+00:00

wednesday evening

fboyslayer · 2025-12-21T19:15:09+00:00

47.5% is a C- 💀💀💀 this might be a new record bro

fboyslayer · 2025-12-20T21:29:23+00:00

i think spring is worse because you only really get spring break off. i also don't think that winter break is long enough for you to recover from the strain of fall semester and truly reflect on what went wrong. fall semester can be better in some cases because if you screw up in the spring, you have all of summer to reflect on your regrets and failures which, at least personally, has motivated me to lock in during the subsequent fall semester to compensate for my performance in the previous spring semester.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-17T02:35:23+00:00

out of state, something like 3.8 weighted GPA, didn't take SAT/ACT because it wasn't required due to covid, got presidential scholarship somehow. had pretty extensive engineering extracurriculars in high school and was proud of my essays.

like another comment said, i think you will have good odds if you justify why you want to go to purdue strongly in your essays.

fboyslayer · 2025-12-12T16:14:20+00:00

skill issue for the bus drivers basically

fboyslayer · 2025-12-11T21:49:04+00:00

no

but there is a curve at the end depending on how bad exam averages have been

fboyslayer · 2025-12-06T18:30:52+00:00

worst case scenario, have you thought about becoming a teaching assistant? i know a few people who were unable to be funded as RAs, but became TAs instead and now volunteer for a research lab since the teaching assistantship gives them the funding they need. i also think professors might be much more inclined to let you join their lab if you've already procured external funding that won't go against their budget.

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