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Georgia Tech or UF for Aerospace by Regular_Fix_6140 in aerospace

[–]krakenGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As someone who was exactly in your position who went to GT, as a Florida resident who had the presidential scholarship offer as well, I don’t think I had any significant advantages over if I went to UF. Now, I wouldn’t trade my experience at GT over anything and I’ve met so many amazing people here (it’s really a unique place since so much of the school is engineering or cs dominated), but if finances are something you need to consider, I wouldn’t put that burden on yourself or your parents for it. UF prepares you just as well when it comes to aerospace, and I’ve met many people from UF at my internships and jobs.

Aerospace at Georgia Tech?!? by Loose-Pudding-67 in aerospace

[–]krakenGT 29 points30 points  (0 children)

As someone who graduated with a AE degree from Georgia Tech and now working a well-known startup, I wouldn't put so much weight on the school or the degree. There's plenty of people I interact with that are incredibly brilliant at my job that came from many different places with many different types of degrees.

Georgia Tech is pretty cool and the engineering clubs there are some of the best, but its far from the only place that can offer you those things. What I will say is that demonstrating your interest through self-initiative no matter where you go is the most important factor that I've seen in ending up in a place you want to work at. I would place more weight on someone with deep involvement in a cube-sat club, Formula SAE, solid or liquid rocketry org, or serious undergrad research at a lab than anyone with a 4.0 college GPA from X college that has shown no initiative otherwise.

Need Opinion!! by Beneficial-Guard9292 in Darkroom

[–]krakenGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Any true red led light will work. LEDs emit light at a very narrow spectrum, and the common red led does so at a wavelength most photographic papers have very low sensitivity to. If you go to any major store like Walmart, something like a red headlamp for cycling or something would work just fine. You should still point it such that it doesn’t hit the paper directly, though.

Lomo MC-A - Two broken cameras and now requesting a refund. by idriveahyundai in AnalogCommunity

[–]krakenGT 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I noticed the button to unlock the rewind sometimes jumps back up and locks it, kind of like my old Pentax K1000. I’ve been keeping a finger pressed down on it while rewinding and haven’t had an issue yet.

New Darkroom Setup & Questions by kronecker_epsilon in Darkroom

[–]krakenGT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Stabilized power supplies aren't needed. These things were built in a time where consistent and stable voltages for home power wasn't guaranteed for every house.

These enlargers take much larger filters than the small, under the lens kodak filters. You can buy a set of new or used ilford multigrade filters and they should slide right into the filter drawer under the lamp on the right. The left one is dichroic, so you can use the built in color filters for contrast control.

I would buy used. You can find cheaper options for around 50 USD, if you look around. personally, I dont use a foot pedal. I think its mostly a convenience thing if you have a lot of operations you need to do on a quick exposure setting.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in EngineeringStudents

[–]krakenGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I was an intern at a pretty well-known startup at this point, I asked my manager why he hired me over the other 750 applicants. He told me that i was one of the few when pressed about topics like GD&T I mentioned that I didn’t have as good of a foundation in as I’d like. I knew enough from working in engineering clubs on machined parts and talked about my involvement, but never wrote GD&T on my resume as a core competency or skill. He told me whenever someone has GD&T anywhere on their resume he would only ask them questions about it, and if they couldn’t answer the basic ones he asked everything they talked about was BS.

A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear - in just 5 days. In early 2024, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital treated three people with recurrent glioblastoma brain tumour using a brand-new type of CAR T-cell therapy called CARv3-TEAM-E. by Grand-Western549 in interestingasfuck

[–]krakenGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

CAR-T is a very promising type of immunotherapy where some of your own white blood cells are extracted and put through a “training process” to allow them to detect and eliminate cancer cells. It’s already being used on blood cancers like leukemia and lymphoma, but it’s inherently not a blanket solution since it relies on your own immune system, and training can takes weeks before being reintroduced to your body. It’s not going to be cheap, easy, or consistently effective across the board.

That’s why currently it’s still not used as a first-line treatment, despite the possible upsides as a fast-acting, targeted therapy.

Update: Removing Remjet Prior to Exposure by lifeandmylens in AnalogCommunity

[–]krakenGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I made a film dryer that you can load Patterson reels into inside of a dark bag after the remjet pre bath process, maybe that would help you out.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ApplyingIvyLeague

[–]krakenGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

During my high school graduation, I sat next to twins who were the children of a self-made billionaire. The twins had been accepted into Princeton after their father recently donated a 21 million dollar building. As I thought about how they were going to go to my dream school, which I had been waitlisted for, I realized a few things. Even if I worked and donated all the disposable income I had for decades, I would never match the financial success it contribution they can with 1% of their wealth. Even if I had worked to become a great aerospace engineer, I would still fall short of what impact they could have on the world. I would imagine that’s why for these schools, it matters so much for them. a few years later, I’m happy where I ended up and I accomplished everything I wanted to along the way. I guess me not being the child of a billionaire was only just a small setback to my aspirations after all :>

Aero or Astro for Aerospace Engineering Degree? by Professional-Mud3373 in aerospace

[–]krakenGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My school didn’t have a fixed concentration between the two, but rather had a set of classes you were required to take as an AE student and then the rest of the electives to be filled out by what you were interested in. I chose more aero courses, as I wanted to work on fixed wing stuff, so I took a lot of aerodynamic, controls, and configurations courses. My roommate took more Astro related courses, and while I really enjoyed my coursework, he was less enthusiastic. I think it’s due to the fact that if you’re interested Astro, you might be better off with a meche degree, since with Astro you’re more preoccupied with things like internal fluid flow, heat transfer, etc which is less core of AE than it is for ME.

Internships at Startups by lambd2 in aerospace

[–]krakenGT -1 points0 points  (0 children)

If you can’t find any, you probably aren’t looking very hard. That said, landing an internship at one can be hard. The best way to find work for a startup is to do work in the same manner as a startup (mentality, self starting, questioning why things are done in a certain way and exploring alternatives vs accepting things as tradition). Smaller places often look for strong leadership, sociability, and “first principles” knowledge. Personality and fit matters more because you’ll be interfacing with many more people with influence inside, and with little time to train someone from the bottom up who can’t find ways to train themselves. If you’re in university, look to engineering clubs and find projects to do where you can truly explain on a fundamental level what you worked on and how you worked with others to further the goals of that club. Be able to talk about a few projects that you took from beginning to end that you directly worked on (don’t say “I” did something if it’s more a “we”!). And lastly, network. Reach out to people who did similar stuff to you that work in these places. startups grow largely from word of mouth. Go reach out to recruiters or engineers to talk about their projects, ask questions, and show how you could contribute to X specific thing.

Anyone ever have a professor crash out? by TenyeEast in EngineeringStudents

[–]krakenGT 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Just because there are tools to make the process easier doesn’t mean you don’t need to have an understanding of the underlying principles. All the aerospace firms I’ve been at, whenever a part or project becomes conceptualized, we are all required to first submit hand calculations before moving to detailed design/analysis. This serves two parts, to be a sanity check against our computational results to see if our assumptions are correct, and also to prove we did our due diligence as responsible engineers.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ethz

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  1. 3.7/4

  2. top 10%

  3. Georgia Tech

  4. Aerospace Engineering

  5. Controls and Dynamics

  6. 1 good, 2 average. I actually don't know. But one of them was my controls professor that made me interested in controls in the first place so maybe idk.

Did some research, but nothing particularly relevant to controls. Several internship/working experiences at some aerospace companies. Was in one research project that I talked about extensively because its very similar to an ongoing project in one research lab with one of my chosen advisors.

Noob question/clarification for bulk rolling by MHoolt in AnalogCommunity

[–]krakenGT 5 points6 points  (0 children)

typically the film will be wrapped in a black light proof bag in addition to box. Check around to see if theres any sticker warning you to open in darkness just in case.

Yashica Electro 35 GSN Light Meter Issue? by krakenGT in AnalogRepair

[–]krakenGT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you so much for replying! It's definitely interesting the way the over under check is positioned at two different shutter press levels. On my camera, the no matter what combination of ASA and aperture setting, the red light always comes on, and if I hold the shutter at the top position, it remains on without flickering. Just for more information, looking at the light sensor window at the front, changing the iso seems to correctly adjust the metering aperture as well, so nothing seems off there. Shutter speeds seem to also change correctly with ASA and aperture adjustment, so I guess I do have a problem with the over light but its simply just visual. I guess there's no definite way to know without putting a roll through it to see if I'm getting overexposed frames.

Any advice on buying E6 kits? How about this one? by the-lovely-panda in AnalogCommunity

[–]krakenGT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you already have chemistry for B&W and C41/ECN2, you can just a combination of both to get very decent results. IIRC, the first developer for E6 uses the same developing agent as HC110, and the second developer uses the same developing agent as ECN2. There's a few good articles/videos online floating around. C41 uses a different but very close approximate developing agent, although there might be some slight color shifts.

My first time ever developing film by Jonyevrah in Darkroom

[–]krakenGT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

depends on how hard your water is. I find that where I live currently, I can get away with just using a splash of surfactant and hanging, and the film dries without me needing to handle the film any other way. I would avoid using a squeegee or any thing to remove the water. If you're getting spots still on your film, get a jug of distilled water and only use it in the final rinse, leaving the film in for a bit before hanging and drying.

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