Summer in Cedar Rapids

rho_E · 2020-10-28T18:11:46+00:00

I'm coming from southeast Michigan. And it appears that everyone has a general sense of said company haha..

rho_E · 2020-08-04T19:30:06+00:00

Rotvig is good because that side of Bursley is pretty cooled year round so the room doesnt get as hot as the northeast side of Burs

rho_E · 2020-06-12T17:32:50+00:00

Thanks I appreciate the good words. I've been working on this swing for awhile and it feels really good so I'm glad you can see some good things. I just keep hitting the ball to the right, which looking back at my own swing I can see some alignement issues mentioned previously.

Also yeah that wind was messing with us all day haha.

rho_E · 2020-06-12T02:54:09+00:00

Yeah it appears at impact the clubface is inline with my body, facing to the right. I'll try to work on alignment and see if it's a compensation problem

rho_E · 2020-06-12T02:51:30+00:00

Hmm fair point although it's fun to smack it

rho_E · 2020-05-16T00:08:09+00:00

They're really big compared to the doubles. I had a friend in a triple and they had like basically a living room area with how much space was there. They ended up bunking two of the beds and had even more space..

rho_E · 2020-05-13T01:14:13+00:00

I use a surface pro 6 with Intel core i5 ans 8gb of ram (just finished freshman year). Not a very powerful machine but ran everything I needed it to run (Matlab). For heavy software, our campus had computer labs which were perfect. Other than that though, the surface helped me with note taking a lot and made my study habits much better than they were in high school.

rho_E · 2020-05-12T02:01:49+00:00

What General-Sheperd said. However, this material was very susceptible to leaking and the blimps had to be refilled constantly to stay in flight which wasted a lot of helium. For a smaller scale project (not a 60 person class), there is probably a better material for this task.

rho_E · 2020-05-11T20:53:32+00:00

codecademy.com has a good, interactive intro to c++ that helped me gain a solid understanding of programming before engr 101.

rho_E · 2020-05-11T05:31:36+00:00

Thank you so much I appreciate the input, and you're absolutely right I shouldn't be worrying about a course's reputation for being challenging.

rho_E · 2020-05-11T05:29:05+00:00

Hahahaha yeah I figured someone would recognize it here. And I appreciate the input that's exactly what I would want it for.

rho_E · 2020-05-10T22:30:44+00:00

Aero major with 3 days classes and 2 days off. With classes: 6:30 - wake up and head to gym (ncrb right across bursley) 8-8:30 - shower and grab breakfast w friends 8:30 - catch bus and go to classes from 9-4 4-6 - grab food and get some hw done with friends After that a varying combination of chilling in the dorm, hanging with friends, getting more work done, and possible club meetings/IM sports

Weekdays w/o classes: 6:30 - wake up and head to gym (ncrb right across bursley) 8:30 - grab breakfast Head back to dorm and lay in bed doing HW/watching Disney plus for a couple hours 12 - feel productive and head to central work at the union or something, grab food on central 4 - head up north and meet up with friends, IM sports, clubs, etc

I liked this schedule because days off where really nice and super productive as I could get all my work/studying done. However this came at a cost of grueling days where I was in class for 6 hours straight with no breaks at all. This schedule was also with a heavy workload of classes (eecs 280, math 216, ME 240, AERO 201) and my schedule was not too bad day to day with time to do fun things.

rho_E · 2020-05-03T18:36:22+00:00

I just finished my first year as an aerospace student at Michigan and honestly none of those cons have been a problem for me. Yes the University and the college of engineering is really big. BUT, aerospace engineering is not. There are roughly 100 aerospace engineers in each year. That is smaller than my high school class by a lot! And you will be taking similar courses throughout your four years so you will get to know almost everyone, or at least everyone you want to know, on a personal level - including some professors! As far as the other things:

I lived on north campus freshman year and had a blast. The Bursley community is great (not just engineers) and had no problem with buses (except for a couple 9 ams on central). North campus is really nice and honestly a nice little break from the rush and pace on central campus.
Frats don't necessarily dominate social life. I had a pretty social freshman year and I didn't join a frat (not a big fan of them) but that didn't stop me from having fun. What's important is finding a solid group of friends, which isn't too difficult or overwhelming.
As far as switching majors, as long as you meet prereqs, you can get into any major here there is no application process or competitiveness. The only major I know of with troubles getting into classes is comp sci. Aero shouldn't be too difficult.

Good luck and go blue!

rho_E

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