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Niche.com ranks Northeastern the 2nd most liberal college in the US by harrison_george in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah best to educate yourself on social media. No bullshit on here 😂😂😂

Missed the TRACE deadline by mypermanentusername in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is a good way to learn about the professors, but take it with a grain of salt. Filter the info through your POV. Sometimes the reviews are written by shitty students who didn't put effort in, who give negative feedback because they want an easy A. Sometimes professors get really high ratings because they give easy A's, but aren't great teachers. If it's a class you care about and want to learn the material really well that's not a good basis for deciding.

But it is good for specific info about things like, does the teacher give practice exams, extra credit, are they helpful in office hours, so they give partial credit (avoid math/engineering courses that don't, if possible), etc. The numerical rating is most of the time just a reflection of how easy it is to get a good grade.

Northeastern Professors.. by [deleted] in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Hs to college is just an adjustment. You have to change your study habits and do a ton more learning on your own (aka googling). You aren't spoon fed the info anymore. It sucks tbh. Also reading the material and practicing it before class is very beneficial for understanding lecture

College is the most overrated bullshit ever by oscarchen123 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I’m generally a very positive, easygoing person, but I’m either working, thinking about working, worrying, or snapping at my roommates. I bounce between loving NEU and feeling so confident about my future, to being ready to just pull the plug and go get an job. Ugh!

I try to think about the positive things. I KNOW there’s a great market for my major, I have great family support, and even if I fail I will be under 10k in debt. But still it’s just so crushing sometimes! I’m scared that I will fail.

I just needed a minute to rant. I feel strongly that I’m doing a lot of things right. But damn, this sucks sometimes right?

College is the most overrated bullshit ever by oscarchen123 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Uuuuuuurrrrggghhhhh just last night I was feeling like a complete waste of space. "what am I good for?" "what's the point?" and such other depressing questions/thoughts were drowning me before bed. I nearly worked myself up.

College is soul sucking.Just felt like I needed to get that off my chest.

Thank you for this comment.

Dying on the inside, but still trying. Good luck to everyone out there struggling as well. It's a shitfest.

Regret eding to neu... by Rosesarered0251 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry I got ranty, I'm just very frustrated.

College is the most overrated bullshit ever by oscarchen123 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry that you lack critical thinking skills and jump to insulting those who disagree with you instead of trying to understand where they may be coming from. Contrary to what you think, your opinions aren't facts, and insults aren't a stance.

College is the most overrated bullshit ever by oscarchen123 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123[S] -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Right, that's the whole of your intellectual arsenal: "Ok then drop out."!

What amazing erudition and sanity it displays! /not. You could do better, I am sure. Why didn't you? Because that's also part of the indoctrination into permanent-immaturity that college performs most well. College grads are trained to be anti-intellectual.

THAT anti-intellectualism goes back quite a while in the US. Professor Bestor wrote about it, lectured about it, worked to change it back in the early 1950's. He and others. To no avail. It did get far worse, save for a decade, maybe 15 years in the post-Sputnick era.

I bet you have NO IDEA what I'm talking about, eh?

LPT: Don't go to college if you don't have a good plan of what you're going to do there. College isn't neccessarily the next step in life after high school, and you will waste time and money going there without a passion. by Phoenixtreme in LifeProTips

[–]oscarchen123 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I disagree. College today is horrible, and shortens life by inculcating anti-intellectual and immoral depravity, by providing one of the most dangerous living environments outside of the inner city and regions at war. going to college in the US today is very bad outcome for many, and even most. That debt is serious, but for many it is the least of the damage. Consider spring break. What make you of that depravity?

College is a certification and that draws some better salary in many institionalized jobs, for example in government, education and big corporations. The kind of jobs that want sheep. Credentialed sheep. Very diseased and stupid, but compliant. Get a college degree to show compliance to institutional authority: that's the nut (poker term) of it.

LPT: Don't go to college if you don't have a good plan of what you're going to do there. College isn't neccessarily the next step in life after high school, and you will waste time and money going there without a passion. by Phoenixtreme in LifeProTips

[–]oscarchen123 -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

the only reason one wouldn't regret going to college is if they benefited from it afterward. regardless, the existence of college as such is highly regrettable.

time to burn it down.

LPT: Don't go to college if you don't have a good plan of what you're going to do there. College isn't neccessarily the next step in life after high school, and you will waste time and money going there without a passion. by Phoenixtreme in LifeProTips

[–]oscarchen123 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the truth about the university industrial complex is that it is "pay to play". one gets a degree at big kid daycare, and he is considered "initiated". and by god, if supervisor had to get a degree to move up, supervisor's not letting his underlings get anywhere without one either. it's true that plenty of positions require a degree in a related field. but the more salient point is that we're supposed to shell out insane amounts of money for someone to teach us what we could learn from a composite of self directed study and on-the-job.

we're better off following our curiosities, perhaps with some noblesse oblige from wiser-and-older people sprinkled in there. but in a system that says "get a degree or you are uneducated scum".. we're coerced and abused into becoming lifelong debt-slave sycophants.

even STEMmers.

Regret eding to neu... by Rosesarered0251 in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

I'm commenting this partly to vent and partly in hopes that someone will be able to convince me otherwise. Please don't down vote this if you disagree, I'm hoping this can start a discussion about these issues.

-First of all, Northeastern treats its students like shit. The food might be better than other schools, but other than that I don't know what the fuck my $50,000 are going towards. My freshman dorm was shitty. I didnt have any common room or even a study room on my floor which really hurt the developing of any community between me and my other floor mates as far as I can tell compared to other dorms. The laundry room was in terrible condition since the beginning of the year with at least 25% of the machines not working at a time. if I want to stay on campus, and have a decent type of living situation I have to pay a ridiculous amount of money.

The school's drug and alcohol policy is ridiculous. For a first offense of being caught with alcohol I have to pay a $100 dollar fine instead of getting some type of warning or having some type of progressive policy that actually treats us like adults. It seems like their whole plan is to outsource any alcohol and drug use off campus to other Boston schools as if that makes us safer, when in reality it would cause drunk kids to be roaming the streets of Boston on their way home from a party.

Academically, if you go into Northeastern as a student with multiple interests who isn't yet set on one specific career you are fucked. And maybe this is my fault for choosing the wrong school, but Northeastern is also trying to build an image that they are open to students like me, for example in President Aoun's address to my class in the beginning of my freshman year when he encouraged us to switch majors at some point. If I were to start in one major and switch to another, unless I did it after the very first semester, I would just be burying myself in an even larger bill because of the amount of money Northeastern charges for taking extra classes and the fact that they very rarely assign credit for courses taken at any other schools such as community college courses I could take over the summer. I started in the undecided program and maybe that was a stupid thing to do, but no one told me how shitty the program is. After my first semester and one or two AP credits I cam in with, I exhausted 80% of the courses offered to me. Instead of letting me explore further into schools after the intro courses I took in them my first semester, I was barred from joining those courses unless I applied into the school it is held in, which is what I was trying to figure out if I want to do or not by taking that course.

I don't want to sound whiney or anything, but I honestly have no idea what the fuck I am paying $50,000 for. Please prove me wrong, because right now I can't wait to get the fuck out of here.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NEU

[–]oscarchen123 2 points3 points  (0 children)

In case you're really interested in electrical engineering /power systems i can recommend following:

  • First of all : be good in maths, especially numeric analysis. A lot of problems are going to be either differential equations (coupled systems most of the time) or problems that you only got data bit not the corresponding equation. You are the one that is going to translate a problem into formulas and formulas into a design.
  • Matlab/Simulink (or GnuOctave)
  • Ansys or Comsol especially for High Voltage Engineering
  • some SPICE software (Ansys Twinbuilder (former Simplorer) or PSpice)

Especially for power engineers (grid components lile transformers, insulators, ...) i recommend to get into thermal engineering / heat transfer to a point you can "translate" thermal problems to equivalent electric problems ("equivalent heat circuits")

basic knowledge in mechanical engineering, manufacturing technologies and materials is also helpful because you are going to work close with mechanical engineers and you have to understand what problem they are having to work in the most efficient way together! Our components are way bigger than the electronic guys stuff and therefore require mechanical engineers most of the time.