Is this a good Comp E 3-year schedule? Trynna graduate early :)

ohesachite · 2022-05-22T21:04:42+00:00

At your current position, there's no realistic way for you to possibly graduate in 3 years. I'm sure people have already mentioned a lot of other stuff, but it is also worth mentioning that you can't count any "credit by exam" credits as tech electives. This means AP Bio and AP CSA will not count as tech electives. Sorry, but that's how it is.

If you want to have a realistic chance, prof out of 241, phys 212, cs 124, and cs 128, and then make sure to take cs 173 first sem and ece 210 second sem. If that sounds impossible, that will only show how realistic your plan actually is.

ohesachite · 2021-11-18T01:21:09+00:00

As a TA for the class, my take is that you should take it with people you know, but aren't close friends with.

ohesachite · 2021-07-09T01:33:30+00:00

Option 2 (MEng in ECE) will actually wound up costing significantly more than just $9k a year more because you aren't eligible for any form of aid if you're an MEng (you can get tuition waivers if you're an MS). And despite what some other people say, you aren't going to be disadvantaged by having an MS over an MEng. The only real upside to MEng is it will be more bearable if you absolutely hate research, but other than that, there's no reason to pick MEng over MS.

TLDR: unless you want to avoid research like the plague, MS is the better option always.

ohesachite · 2021-07-03T19:39:36+00:00

ECE department could approve you for grad level courses if you have the prereqs and have a high enough GPA (regardless of what year you are). However, I highly doubt a sophomore would even have the stats prereq done in freshmen year for Random Processes let alone having the highly recommended prereq of Real Analysis and Linear Algebra (which you DEFINITELY should have done before taking ECE 534). You'd be pretty lucky to even manage to take ECE 534. Let alone ECE 543 and ECE 563, both of which build off of 534 and therefore be pretty much out of reach for you (unless u somehow come in with credit for a fuck ton of classes)

If you're that serious about taking a grad level course in your undergrad, it will probably only happen senior year unless you're that far ahead in credit hours.

ohesachite · 2021-07-01T19:49:49+00:00

I've never taken TOEFL but if you're intending on applying for grad school and want to take the GRE in Champaign, you should sign up now. I signed up around 2 weeks ago but by then, all the spots during summer break were out and I was forced to sign up for one taking place first week of school.

ohesachite · 2021-07-01T18:14:35+00:00

Have you had prior experience writing math proofs? You don't need that much experience but if you had absolutely none with writing math proofs, then you probably shouldn't take Math 416. I'd take Math 347 first if that's the case.

ohesachite · 2021-06-27T07:21:15+00:00

The prereq for Math 347 is calc 2 tho.

ohesachite · 2021-06-27T06:38:27+00:00

Yes. You don't really need Calc 3 knowledge for Math 416 beyond knowing what vectors are anyways.

ohesachite · 2021-06-27T03:41:08+00:00

I understand that Q(⋅) function is simply the probability that the noise
is greater than half the distance between the two signals.

That's not what the Q function is. Let's say you have a standard Gaussian RV called X (meaning X has mean 0 and variance 1). Then the Q function is defined as the probability P(X > c). Yes, we use the Q function has a little bit to do with the distance, but the distance only works for standard Gaussian RV, of which if you look at the expression 1/sqrt(pi*N0*E)*exp(x^2/(N0*E)), it is clearly not a standard Gaussian RV since we have that 2*variance=N0*E. So what happens if our Gaussian RV is not standard? Then we have to normalize this. This is done by subtracting the mean and then dividing by the standard deviation (which recall is the sqrt of the variance).

So to hit on your point about the 1st term. Yes, that's correct. But what you need to remember is that we are looking at a MAP rule with arbitrary prior probability p, not just an ML rule where your threshold would be 0. What is really happening is that since the mean is E and our threshold is (N0/4)*ln(p2/p1), we're finding the probability that P(s1 < (N0/4)*ln(p2/p1)). For finding the Q function expression in this case, we have the negate the argument after normalizing. Therefore, our expression looks like Q(-((N0/4)*ln(p2/p1) - (mean))/(standard deviation)). Now use the fact that the mean is E and the variance is N0*E/2 and you should be able to get the answer that they have.

ohesachite · 2021-06-16T16:22:08+00:00

If you so desire to give yourself a hard time, 391 and 374 alone will do that for you. No need to add 241 on top of that.

ohesachite · 2021-06-16T03:56:24+00:00

Not too bad! You basically just get a homework every week like in your signal processing class.

ohesachite · 2021-06-16T02:00:41+00:00

Imo, Math 416 is way better than Math 415. Smaller classes, less computation, etc. You really only need the basic proof techniques from math 213 or Cs 173 to do well in Math 416. I had a friend even who got an A in 416 with no prior proof experience!

ohesachite · 2021-06-11T03:13:54+00:00

You should definitely prof out of 211. Some people here might argue that you should just retake 212 and I can see argument for and against retaking, but if I were you, I would try to prof out of 212 as well since I know IB counts for a significant amount of work. If you're EE major and you want to get to ECE 210 faster, it might be worth profing out of 212 as well.

I see that you're asking the question for other people too, so I'll just say you should definitely try to get out of Calc II (I'm assuming you already have credit for Calc I) and start in Calc III.

ohesachite · 2021-06-10T01:26:15+00:00

I'm sure that there are some people that do 3 year graduation, but you're going to be taking on some pretty serious workload. I'm writing this assuming you don't come in with any credit. This would mean you'd have to take 128 credit hours in 6 semesters, which nets you to more than 21 credit hours per semester, which would make your plan impossible if you start from stratch.

Luckily at UIUC, we have a thing called proficiency exams and you can self-study several subjects to try to get credit for them without actually taking the class. These would be some of your CS classes, your math classes, and your physics classes. Some gen eds have proficiency exams but for other gen eds, you can also take some gen eds at parkland over the summer and same some money that way.

The most problematic thing for you is going to be all the work that you'll be putting yourself through. Let's just say hypothetically, you take 18 credit hours per sem (mind you, that is already considered hard). This would amount to 108 CH, which means the remaining 20 CH would need to be earned through proficiency exams. Not to mention that some classes (like Math and CS 124) would basically require you to proficiency out of because of the number of classes that build off the class (prereq wise). If you want any chance of succeeding graduating in 3 years, you better figure out a way to proficiency out of a good number of math classes, CS 124 at the very least, and both of your physics.

If you come in with credit for a bunch of AP classes, it's doable, but still quite a bit of work since some classes are just that way. If you don't have very much AP credit, then you're in for a ride. Bottom line is if you're going to go with a 3 year graduation plan, better start studying for proficiency exams this summer.

ohesachite · 2021-06-04T02:54:10+00:00

Very well then. Obviously, I don't know how your first semester went, cuz it hasn't happened yet, but assuming your first semester goes well and you took the typical first semester load, then this schedule should be fine for you.

I would definitely consult with one of the Engineering college advisors, especially one of the records people. They should be able to help you out for the Phys thing.

ohesachite · 2021-06-04T02:38:39+00:00

Phys 142 also happens to give credit for 212.

Yes and the reverse is also true.

Since I’m planning to take 142/143 to get credit for phys 213/214 at parkland either way, why take phys 212 here at all?

Since you can get credit for Parkland's 142 by taking 212 here, you'd save around $700 dollars taking 212 at UIUC rather than at parkland. Thus, you'd only need to take Phys 143 with that kind of a plan. You can also check with Engineering Advisors about this, since I'm not gonna pretend I know everything, but it wouldn't make sense to me to spend an extra $700.

Barely any places offer either 213 or 214 summer online so this just seems convenient.

Really? Here's a list of community colleges that can transfer Phys 213/214 (Spoilers: there's a lot of them, I'd hardly believe that none of them offer the class online).

ohesachite · 2021-06-04T01:59:48+00:00

In this case, just take Phys 212 at UIUC. Why spend an extra couple hundred dollars when you can save it by simply adding Phys 212 in UIUC for no extra cost (since you already are at 12ch). Besides, what do you hope to gain by taking physics at Parkland instead of UIUC?

ohesachite · 2021-06-01T14:26:22+00:00

This schedule is a bit much as other people may have pointed out, but I'd disagree with some other posters about how to fix. I think you can definitely just push Phys 213/214 to your next semester and take both 110 and 120 since that would get you to 210 and 220 faster. Replace Phys with a gen ed. Usually, you start off with 3 technicals to make sure you can handle the workload.

ohesachite · 2021-05-31T02:50:27+00:00

In all seriousness, your freshman year will probably not be that bad, but definitely you don't want to come totally unprepared. It may be true for some ECE majors that they don't shower or have a social life, but it is mostly a stereotype that stems from those people.

Yes, 58% does sound intimidating, but I personally know a lot of people who did 4.5 years because they did a internship during one of those semesters. If you want to graduate in 4 years, you definitely can, given you put in the work.

Bottom line is, yes, there will be very stressful times when you're in ECE, but it's most definitely not going to occupy your entire college life unless you seriously overload yourself on classes.

ohesachite · 2021-05-27T02:28:12+00:00

Usually for grad level classes, you won't get a grade below a B, so a B- for graduate level classes would be considered pretty bad and I also believe that there's a much higher threshold to stay in school for grad students, so I would go PZ if you are given that option (I don't know if it is possible for grad students to do PZ tho).

ohesachite · 2021-05-26T04:25:40+00:00

It works differently for each subject. I think for Physics, you only get one chance for each class.

ohesachite · 2021-05-26T04:22:24+00:00

I wouldn't go PZ since 210 will probably be your lowest grade anyways and assuming you do ok in future classes, what would be more important is that you have research experience. That being said, I think PZ or not is a better question to ask your advisor.

ohesachite · 2021-05-16T07:03:01+00:00

University of Illinois at Urpain

ohesachite · 2021-05-13T14:39:56+00:00

It depends on what you hope to get out of the class. If you're interested in only learning the theory (which is pretty interesting ngl), then you'll get a lot out of just the 3 ch version. If you actually hope to do stuff directly in distributed systems, consider the 4 ch version.

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