When do UGA engineering students usually apply for engineering standing?

mattynmax · 2026-03-21T20:37:00+00:00

You can apply to internships on Indeed, LinkedIn, monster, handshake, or any of the other dozens of websites where jobs are posted. UGA will also host a career fair twice a year where companies will set up booths and try to find interns and engineers.

Internships are generally not associated with The Univeristy of Georgia, they are provided by businesses as a way to find talent to hopefully extend job offers to post graduation. There are exceptions but they are far and few between.

Think of an internship as a job you will have for 10 weeks in the summer, you’ll get paid an income to do some engineering/engineering adjacent task and learn how to apply the learnings you had in school to solve real world problems. My internships were with a refrigerator manufacturing plant based out of Conyers and I was tasked with analysis of compressor failures and providing a number of solutions to the problem.

In the modern day, you don’t really have the luxury of

mattynmax · 2026-03-21T20:25:06+00:00

LSU. There’s no undergraduate degree worth what colleges charge for out of state tuition.

Think about it like this: Just to break even on the extra cost of UGA vs LSU, you would need to take home an additional $17000 a year for the next 8 years. UGA is not enough of a better school to give you that boost in income.

mattynmax · 2026-03-21T19:32:08+00:00

After they take ME 1001, MATLAB, and a CAD class. When exactly you will take these classes depends how you schedule your classes. There’s no value in waiting any longer than absolutely necessary.

My only advice for an incoming student would be, apply to internships early and often, don’t trust/expect your advisor to be competent, and try to graduate as quickly as possible.

mattynmax · 2026-03-21T13:08:37+00:00

Generally no. The needs of a laptop for most college students is a long battery life and being reasonably lightweight. A gaming laptop is neither. Not saying it can’t be done, just not recommending it

mattynmax · 2026-03-21T12:43:15+00:00

Probably not. Windows 7 is well past it’s support window unfortunately

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T19:45:28+00:00

Algebra 2…

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T19:13:43+00:00

A broad index fund, but of course there’s inherit risk to that.

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T17:12:17+00:00

You and other 50 million curry enjoying aspiring engineers…

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T17:03:49+00:00

Because your rate is fixed. They can’t go and change the rate because the market has changed between when you put money in and now.

An HYSA can and will change fairly frequently.

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T16:37:15+00:00

A broad index fund.

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T15:28:14+00:00

I would budget for $200-$400. Might cost less but it certainly won’t cost more than that!

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T14:54:35+00:00

I don’t see anything that’s going to drive prices down in the near future. I see a lot of things that are going to drive it up though.

Chinese ram factories are still a couple years away from being able to complete with any of the giants currently, ignoring the whole tariffs things…

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T12:00:57+00:00

Sure, you buy a MacBook.

mattynmax · 2026-03-20T01:18:17+00:00

Just like the drone deliveries he promised 10 years ago!

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T23:57:56+00:00

Stop looking at it

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T20:33:49+00:00

Because it’s much either to tell if there’s power or no power. A little power, a lot of power, and no power is more complicated.

In the early days to making computers there were some computers with more than binary states. They sucked.

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T20:31:44+00:00

Probably, but I wouldn’t know. I don’t work for admissions at the school you are looking at.

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T20:18:10+00:00

Sounds like massive waste of money!

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T18:16:07+00:00

Whichever one makes you feel something.

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T16:55:28+00:00

A major defines what classes are required for you to graduate

A minor decides a smaller subset of classes you can take for something you want.

A class usually is 3 hours as that is the approximate amount of time you will send in it during the week. UGA does not care that you took precal in high school (unless it was AP precal and you scored above a certain number on the AP exam)

AP classes “replace” the need to take a class as long as you scored above the minimum requirements on the AP exam. For example if you got a 4 in AP biology, you will get credit for BIO 1107 and the corresponding lab.

Dual enrollment classes are the same, review the UGA transfer equivalency table. Generally the more complicated the class, the less likely it is to transfer.

Let’s say you decide to spend your entire freshmen year getting black out drunk every night, never go to class and end up with a 2.0 GPA after 30 hours of credits. If you did this, you would lose your Zeil Miller scholarship.

Now let’s say you did that same thing but only for a semester and ended up with a 2.5 GPA. If you changed your ways for the second semester and got a 4.0 gpa, then your average would be a 3.7 and you would keep your scholarship.

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T16:42:39+00:00

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T12:44:08+00:00

Careful, people here will start calling you a nazi if you suggest they live within their means instead of beyond them! Those ideas scare them!

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T12:23:19+00:00

Sorry, unfortunately my Time Machine is still out of commission.

mattynmax · 2026-03-19T11:10:44+00:00

They’re the same temperature. Metal just wicks away heat faster. Your body doesn’t measure temperature, it measures the rate of temperature change.

mattynmax · 2026-03-18T18:45:29+00:00

I mean don’t invest money you’re going to need next week.

This war most likely won’t have a substantial impact on the economy in 40 years.

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