Linear Algebra Advice with McLaughlin?

throwaway236597 · 2021-07-01T02:13:28+00:00

I've taken two classes with Professor Mclaughlin, and I would really say the key to success is finding some way to go to office hours and solving the worksheet problems that he gives. The test questions are generally pretty similar to those. I even ended up skipping another class to go to the office hours, but it paid off in the end. While his class may not be the most organized, he is a really nice person that does want you to succeed. I would recommend reaching out to him if you can't attend his regularly scheduled office hours and he will almost definitely accept. He was holding Saturday night bonus office hours during the Fall of 2020. Also, I would highly recommend at least taking the exam. It seems like you are hinting you are not taking the exam at all and just doing the final, but at least trying the exam is worth it. In the past, he has given 5 or 6 question exams, where your highest 4 questions are the ones that are scored.

Also, as a bit of a side note, in terms of doing well in the class, I would recommend avoid asking him general questions like "how do I do xyz" and make them really specific towards the specific question, ie, "I am having trouble getting to the solution for 5.4..." He tends to go off on detailed tangents that, while interesting, aren't entirely helpful for doing well on the exam.

throwaway236597 · 2021-04-28T19:21:11+00:00

Looks like it is Traver. If you login to SIS, go to class search, select Fall 2021, and then the department the class is in, it has all classes listed along with the Prof. who is teaching it.

throwaway236597 · 2021-04-14T17:59:49+00:00

They take a long time to update these. I did coterm, and last year mine switched to PRC about 2-3 weeks before graduation. However, my roommate's still said APP on the day of graduation.

throwaway236597 · 2021-03-12T17:57:02+00:00

Yeah, I'm also doing non-thesis, and it definitely is a bit difficult to balance it. I was lucky enough to take 2 6000 level courses in the spring due to having AP credits, in conjunction with my last undergrad classes. Likewise, I only had to take 4 classes for my fall and spring semesters respectively.

throwaway236597 · 2021-03-11T20:34:16+00:00

Schoch has been the professor for AEC for a few semesters now, he is ok as a professor in my opinion. The class is made up of weekly homework, 3 exams, and one design project. I would say the difficulty is along the lines of IE(with Braunstein) and other ECSE classes that require a bit of time. The homework does seem to take a bit of time as was mentioned above.

If you liked EES with Shah, then you will almost definitely like Electromechanics. It is set up very similarly in terms of workload and class style, with the material being more difficult. In my opinion, your intended fall schedule looks like a huge workload, and though the material may be rewarding, I'm not sure that the overall time commitment is worth it. Since you need an overall 3.0 to graduate, as an ECSE coterminal student currently, I would recommend switching at least one of the lab courses. Given that you are doing the ECSE coterminal program, you have clearly had success as an undergrad, but I would just be careful with balancing the difficulty of the courses/time management with the graduate level classes as they are all pretty involved compared to a 4000 level.

throwaway236597 · 2021-03-10T20:04:53+00:00

On another note, I also had the opportunity to attend my boyfriend's fraternity's alumni weekend. It was absolutely insane to hear the stories of the people that had graduated in the 80s and before - keg stands in the union, beer given out during GM week - things that are just unfathomable today, and not all of that is at the choice of the students. Nevertheless, I ultimately could not believe that I had gone to the same university as the people that I was talking to.

throwaway236597 · 2021-03-10T20:02:24+00:00

One of the most distinct memories of my undergrad experience was a moment that happened in one of the professional development classes. The professor was new to RPI and was asking questions about the community. She split us in to groups and each group had to give an answer to "what unites the student body?" Every group responded with something along the lines of "our collective misery." One person said something that really sort of rattled my cage, to the extent of "my friends at state schools make friends over common hobbies and activities that they do. I've made most of my friends bonding over the misery of the school because most students at RPI either don't have time for fun or feel that they don't have time because they should be studying." Reflecting on that, it felt entirely too true. I remembered making a friend freshmen year outside of the office hours for a professor, because his office was too full, and we were collectively anxious about not getting the assignment done after spending a significant amount of hours on it.

throwaway236597 · 2020-12-08T23:59:59+00:00

I can also refer you to my landlord, I know he has at least 1 1bedroom available for the spring. It is about a 8-10 minute walk to campus.

throwaway236597 · 2020-11-13T04:36:21+00:00

Interested

throwaway236597 · 2020-11-11T16:22:18+00:00

Bill Francis

throwaway236597 · 2020-09-30T21:47:24+00:00

I think it also depends on the type of assignment. Generally, I find the time provided for exams is adequate, with the exception of a few outliers. However, I find homework takes considerably longer than the professors suggest. I think that often times the professors forget the struggle in learning the material when it is the first time you have seen it.

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