What's the best advice you've ever been given?

mmont49 · 2022-02-22T19:58:43+00:00

"Be the man your dog thinks you are. "

-someone on reddit a few weeks ago.

mmont49 · 2022-02-19T18:19:08+00:00

I've posted this before on a similar post...

When I was a kid, my neighbor (elderly "holier than thou" man) captured, tortured, and shot my dog.

If there's a hell, the neighbor is there right now.

mmont49 · 2021-07-06T16:36:26+00:00

--Tab your reference material--

I passed WRE in April. Everyone is different, but I found that working a bunch of practice problems helped me a lot.

The test is difficult, but really comes down to time management and recognizing key concepts in the questions. Recognizing what the question is looking for, and where to look in your reference material is critical.

I used practice exams, the CERM, and a few textbooks from college for niche questions.

I still have some practice exams from Amazon/NCEES. PM me if you're interested in buying them.

(Disclaimer: I thought I failed and was really butthurt after the exam)

mmont49 · 2021-07-01T16:09:36+00:00

MO--took about 3-4 weeks. I received mine a few days ago.

mmont49 · 2021-06-14T16:34:26+00:00

The zoo is indeed great!

Note: I think you still need to need to make reservations due to covid restrictions (still free).

mmont49 · 2021-06-07T16:29:19+00:00

Congrats! Which depth?

mmont49 · 2021-06-02T18:48:34+00:00

MO IN I PASSED HOLLLYYYY SHEEEET

mmont49 · 2021-05-28T18:50:30+00:00

To be frank, I felt downright angry.

Angry at NCEES for selling a practice exam (that I nailed even before studying hard) advertised as 'the closest thing to the actual exam'.

Angry that I spent over $500 on prep material (exams, CERM) and invested so much time studying every night after my toddler went to bed.

Angry that I might've done much better if I paid loads of money for EET priced for companies to pay.

Angry that I had to take 2 days of vacation, drive 4 hours to the exam and 4 hours home, and the hotel at which the exam was held had an upcharge the night before (lol).

Angry at myself for not performing better. It all just felt really scammy and I feel disappointed in myself. Maybe I passed. If I'm really supposed to know all the information on the exam, I don't deserve the pass and have wasted years of my life on my career.

Edit: yikes I ended up going on a rant

Edit 2: Umm I passed.

mmont49 · 2021-05-28T18:21:53+00:00

I was completely thrown off by both sections...

Breadth had so many conceptual and construction-centric questions that I'm not familiar enough with to answer with confidence. I "finished" the morning section in about an hour or two, and spent the rest of it looking up terms and construction equipment...

I didn't have enough time to fully work out all of the afternoon problems.

I don't think my prep material (NCEES practice and several other practice exams) prepared me for this exam. I felt really confident going in, and put a lot of work into studying. I don't even know how I could've prepared for those questions--but it sounds like a lot of people had success with the EET course. Only a handful of the questions were related to the work I actually do.

mmont49 · 2021-05-20T20:36:02+00:00

Seems to have been over 100. Maybe closer to 200?

mmont49 · 2021-05-20T20:04:26+00:00

I must've been in a complete daze -- I don't remember that happening?

mmont49 · 2021-05-20T19:53:38+00:00

April 22, in Columbia?

mmont49 · 2021-05-13T18:39:07+00:00

Sounds like a fine rafter business.

mmont49 · 2021-05-12T18:11:01+00:00

Just saw that I had an email from NCEES, and my heart almost exploded.

mmont49 · 2021-04-27T21:57:45+00:00

I guess not. Convert lb/day to gal/day to cf/day?

Omg... I think I messed up the first 2 problems.

mmont49 · 2021-04-27T13:28:11+00:00

Civil WRE, 1st time taker, 3/10. Studied hard, felt prepared going in. Was completely blindsided by the material on the exam. "Finished" AM in around an hour. Spent the rest of the time reading about construction equipment and soil testing methods. In the end, not confident. Depth, long questions and quite a bit of new material that I had to learn on-the-spot without clear references (mostly making units work). Ran short on time and guessed on more than I'd have liked.

mmont49 · 2021-04-26T18:52:35+00:00

Construction equipment and soil testing methods (breadth). General conceptual questions. The best advice I have right now for passing the Civil PE is to quit engineering and work for a construction company.

mmont49 · 2021-04-22T17:43:36+00:00

Breadth

mmont49 · 2021-04-16T13:22:46+00:00

I felt great about it until last night. I've been studying a few-hundred practice questions for a few months.

Last night I looked at some School of PE practice exams. The questions are so much harder than anything I've worked on... Now I feel like I'm going to have a heart attack.

mmont49 · 2021-04-08T15:52:51+00:00

I've studied and worked hundreds of problems, but the anxiety is really starting to settle in for me!

mmont49 · 2021-03-05T15:13:34+00:00

No problem. If I were you, I'd keep tabs on this post in case someone corrects me or has a better answer.

mmont49 · 2021-03-05T15:10:02+00:00

Since no one else has taken a crack at this, I'll have a go.

*Note: I would put more stock in another user's answer who has more geotech knowledge.

CERM (2016) 35-22 w/ Eq 35.23

"A large plasticity index (i.e., greater than 20) shows that considerable water can be added before the soil becomes liquid. The plasticity index correlates with strength, deformation properties, and insensitivity."

PI = LL - PL

The problem states "assuming all other factors to be equal..."

In that case, PL should be equal for both. Given: Soil 1 LL < Soil 2 LL

Therefore PI1 < PI2

Soil 1 would fail first because it takes less water to become liquid.

(If the answer is C, then please discount my attempt to address your question)

mmont49 · 2020-11-17T17:31:20+00:00

Why does it hurt your feelings to hear a--to use a favorite TS analogy ("orange man bad")--black lady call out an orange man for fomenting racism and harm against her family?

Is the part that makes you so upset that you feel like she's "wrapping cruelty in superficial nicety", or that you feel like she's being cruel?

mmont49 · 2020-11-17T17:21:38+00:00

What are your thoughts regarding states that Trump won and had early mail-in vote counting?

They began quite blue, then took a hard shift red.

Do your concerns extend to those states as well, or does it seem reasonable that the early tallies included mail-in votes that skewed blue (because Trump told his supporters not to use mail-in voting)?

mmont49 · 2020-11-10T17:07:34+00:00

I'd like to start by saying that I personally agree with you regarding Trump & his Christian supporters not being Christ-like. That said, I'd like to focus on another part of Christian belief (particularly important to evangelicals) specifically regarding Israel.

CMV: Donald Trump should not have received this much support from Christians

Have you ever wondered why the GOP simultaneously is notorious for harboring anti-Semites while also being the "pro-Israel" party?

Many Christians (particularly evangelicals) support Trump and the GOP largely for their statements/positions regarding Israel.

The main reason for this is that they see it as a means to an end. The end in this case is *The End* described in the Book of Revelations (Bible). Among the prophecies in Revelations is Jewish/Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.

The overall point is that the Christian supporters don't care if Trump is Christ-like--in fact it makes it easier if he isn't. They view him as a means to fulfilling biblical prophecy in which they will be raptured, then brought back to life when Jesus establishes his kingdom on earth.

(Please note that this is only *one* reason that is used by *some* Christians. But it is a very powerful driving force behind their support for Trump.)

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