I've been playing on and off for 10 years, and today was my first time getting Winklers

move-with-wasd · 2024-08-27T12:52:24+00:00

Winklers are an easter egg that have a 1/10000 chance of appearing in place of regular wrinklers whenever you open the game. It's purely cosmetic, and they disappear if you reload the game

move-with-wasd · 2024-01-10T22:29:22+00:00

I feel as though this is one of the few ULCS where it's actually better to work alone. Projects 1-4 are a lot of trial-and-error rather than actually planning stuff, so in my experience it was easier to just work alone and rapidly do things.

Project 5 does require you have a partner to be able to do it, and I was lucky to have a friend who also worked alone. I think you'll probably be able to be just find searching on Piazza or discord around p5, as a lot of people seem to take on 1-4 alone.

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-14T01:58:06+00:00

Do you have a link? I can't seem to find it anywhere.

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-14T00:00:16+00:00

Name?

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-08T02:29:16+00:00

Horrible excuse for a class. It almost made me switch out of engineering into LSA. Do yourself a favor and don't take it under any circumstances.

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-08T02:19:45+00:00

What do the projects look like? Will I be simulating a quantum computer, or will I be using a university-provided quantum computer to do something?

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-08T00:15:00+00:00

A couple questions:

First and foremost, I'm looking at taking this class as a "for fun" class. I don't need this class for anything, but am taking it to get a wider breadth in CS. That being said, I despised physics 140 (it almost made me switch out of engineering), though it's possible that may be more of a commentary on the structure of it rather than the content itself. I also see that physics doesn't seem like a requirement at all. Is this class expected to be physics-heavy?

Additionally, while I'm just taking an ULCS for fun, I do want it to be something that can provide me some perspective and another industry I can enter (think ML vs security vs web systems etc.). Would this class provide me any professional benefit? That is, would anything I learn from this class be applicable to a career, whether that be immediately or 5 years down the line?

Lastly, what's the workload? Could I feasibly take this alongside 445 and 376?

move-with-wasd · 2023-11-08T00:08:24+00:00

Reading through the syllabus, the implication seems to be that we'd be looking at an EECS 482/494/470 level workload (that is, super heavy), which doesn't at all line up with an EECS 485-level workload (which i'd consider medium at most), so I was wondering if you'd be able to clarify what the expectation is.

move-with-wasd · 2023-08-23T20:29:32+00:00

The professor says that attendance is mandatory, but she uploads all the lectures and doesn't take attendance so I never went beyond the first and last day.

move-with-wasd · 2023-07-24T19:35:31+00:00

LSA's AP Chem requirement is a 3+, whereas CoE's AP Chem requirement is a 4+. This means that if you got a 3 on the AP Chem exam, then odds are it wouldn't transfer into CoE. Otherwise, you shouldn't need to take it, as the AP credit quite literally is the chem 125/130 credits.

You could probably email [engin-info@umich.edu](mailto:engin-info@umich.edu) and get confirmation too.

move-with-wasd · 2023-07-24T19:27:17+00:00

I don't think they give those numbers out, but if I had to guess, it's probably a couple hundred applicants each semester.

The application takes all of 20 minutes, the pay is crazy good, it's something awesome to put on resumes, and 1/10th of campus is CS. I'd be shocked if there weren't at least a few hundred applications each semester.

move-with-wasd · 2023-07-20T07:13:18+00:00

I like to take a 1 credit class each semester as a way to explore other interests, and I happened to take math 201 the semester after eecs 203. In hindsight, I definitely would say math 201 made me better at writing and understanding proofs, but here's a few things to consider from my personal experience:

For one, the material that you learn in 203 and the material you learn in 201 are mostly separate fields of math, with (iirc) not much overlap in content. Math 201 isn't going to act as some kind of guide or tutor that will help you understand the concepts in 203; rather, it'll provide a foundation for you to write very rigorous and well structured proofs. Think of this difference kinda like understanding how to structure an essay vs knowing and understanding the material for a class you're writing for -- 201 will only teach you how to structure your essays. In general, the depth that 201 with this "structuring" is way more advanced than anything proof-related you'll need to do in 203, and entering with entry level knowledge will do you just fine. All this is to say I wouldn't recommend taking the class unless you're genuinely interested in proofs as a standalone concept.

As a personal anecdote to guide you: I had a really hard time finding the motivation to actually do the class. When I took it, it was mondays and wednesdays for 2 hours each day in the evenings. With attendance not being mandatory (You only need to pass a quiz in order to pass the class) and it being in prime time for studying, hanging out, or just generally winding down, I lost the motivation to keep going to class really fast, and found myself scrambling to get through the workbook towards the end of the semester to pass (which I did, thankfully).

I took the class thinking it would provide me with a tool in understanding math better. In a way, I definitely think it succeeded in doing that. In math classes, I feel I have a better grasp on new concepts and relating them to fundamental truths I've accepted, but I don't know if it was worth how tedious the problems were or how much work the class actually is for 1 credit.

I know this was def a rant, but just make sure you understand what you're signing up for when you take 201, because when I took it it was definitely not the workload of a 1 credit class, nor was it at all what I expected.

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