My Engineering Journey

Just a recent grad with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering showing my struggles with technology in practice and in life

[kaiamar]

George Floyd was murdered by police. Just like Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, and far too many others.

White supremacists storm state capitals armed with AR-15 assault rifles and are unharmed. Unarmed people protesting murder by police get tear-gassed and shot with rubber bullets.

Systemic racism is the disease of this country. It must be eradicated. From the white supremacists in the White House to the terrorist vigilantes who hunted down Ahmaud Arbery to the Central Park (Liberal, Buttigieg supporter) woman in New York, calling police on a man who merely asked her to leash her dog.

[kpopfanfictrash]

In case anyone is unaware of what’s currently happening in America. Here is an article with actionable things you can do and here is a petition from change.org. Please also share with your own following.

[radicalgraff]

26 May 2020 - Graffiti in Minneapolis, painted during the anti-cop protests in response to the brutal police murder of George Floyd, a 46-year-old African American man

[en-jin-neer]

I've been thinking of getting into web development. I have also been looking at studyblrs and it motivated me to post my own studying area. Hopefully, I'll also improve my photo-taking abilities 😅

Yeah, I don't own a desk.

[en-jin-neer]

currently searching for a potential career change despite my career not even starting in the first place

[doncosciotte]

So, our “Lung” is on fire.

It is already threatened by huge deforestation, to the point it lost 20% of its width in less than 30 years.

It’s been burning for around two weeks and almost no word has been uttered about it. I, sincerely, have come to find out about it just now. I’m shooketh ™️ because we’re really burning away this planet.

The Amazon Rainforest holds 20% of global waters, it’s an area of incredible value in terms of biodiversity and, nevermind, it’s a crucial climate regulator. Spread awareness, demand help.

[alicedrawslesmis]

ugh fine my personal blog is not cutting so I’ll post here 

DO! NOT! DONATE! TO! AMAZON! CONSERVATION! NGOs! DO NOT!

they don’t act on the root of the problem, they don’t mitigate the effects of deforestation, they do have limited action and they don’t help conserve the forest land outside their very small grounds besides doing little to nothing to help the people who actually live in the amazon and conserve it on a daily basis

DONATE TO THE INDIGENOUS MOVEMENTS INSTEAD

they are organized, they can keep woodcutting companies away from their land, they are getting murdered for it, they are the only reason there is any forest left at all

[alicedrawslesmis]

THIS is a a fund for indigenous peoples of the Amazon (Brasil only)

THIS is a link to donate from abroad to the indigenous women’s march, it has already happened but you can still donate to support the cause

THIS is a link to support the free land camp, and you can email them at [email protected] if you really want to find ways to support them, donations will go to APIB (Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Peoples) and you can keep up with their news here

(APIB is coordinated by, among others, Sonia Guajajara! so if you know her you know this means shit will get done)

[achocolla]

How to help Amazônia:

You can donate to SOS Amazônia which is one among the 100 NGOs selected as “The Largest NGOs in Brazil”.

> > > ( ENGLISH: //doe.sosamazonia.org.br/en ) < < <

And remember: - 1 USD is 4,04 reais. - 1 EUR is 4,47 reais. If you donate only $2,50 USD (10 reais) you’re helping a lot.

If you donate only $2,30 EUR (10 reais) you’re helping a lot. About people saying “the minimum value is $10”: Even if you’re not from Brazil you can donate in REAL instead of donating in USD or EUR via Paypal, so… YES, you can donate less than 10 dollars or euros. (Just don’t change the currency to USD or EUR, Paypal converts your dollars/euros to reais.)

Or you can help by signing the petitions too!

https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/po/apocalipse_na_amazonia_40/?cdGYPob and https://www.change.org/p/impedir-o-desmatamento-e-explora%C3%A7%C3%A3o-da-amaz%C3%B4nia

It won’t take much of your time!

Translation:

Stop killing the Amazon!

To members of the Brazilian Congress, the government of Jair Bolsonaro and world leaders: As citizens around the world, we were horrified to see the rapid increase in the destruction of the Amazon rainforest in recent months. The fate of humanity is directly connected with the fate of the Amazon, and we ask that you do everything you can to protect the forest, including passing laws to protect public forests and ending illegal deforestation, and even increasing international pressure to prevent further destruction of the Amazon.

Please. Boost if possible, this is REALLY important.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Bro, it's like 4PM in São Paulo right now and all the smoke made it look like it's already night...city of ashes indeed.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

That's POLLUTION for you guys. It's what you get when people burn the Amazon rainforest to make farms.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Ok so, the cloud of smoke over the city is from the burning of Amazon rainforest in Rondonia. Sao Paulo is 3300km (2052 miles) distant from Porto Velho. Athens is closer to London than Sao Paulo is to Porto Velho. Just to give you an idea of the damage they are doing to the forest right now, with the permission from the human trash president. Just so you guys from other countries have an idea of what's happening here in Brazil.

If you can reblog this to make people aware of the situation, I'll be really glad.

[hackedhearts-deactivated2024111]

Look they've been burning the forest it's been 15 days now and people have died already in the fires. So the least I hope that the media will actually pay attention to Rondônia and the forest now that's affect São Paulo. The media here in Brazil is trying to take the attention away from the fires saying that what covered SP today as fog because of a cold wave, but many people already said: it's not fog, it's smoke. And if you're shocked about São Paulo sky, this is Rondônia where they are burning the forest:

So yeah, they are destroying the biggest ecosystem that is the Amazon right now. And the world must know.

Because if we depend on the media, the death of the Amazon won't be televised.

[en-jin-neer]

Not sure what I wanna do

I think I've forgotten why I liked engineering. Like the me from high school was a much more motivated person and felt very excited about it. I look back on who she was and I don't recognize her.

I've been trying to learn a bunch of things at the same time and a year has passed. I've finished none of those things thinking I didn't have the time. Now, I really feel rushed because my parents really want to retire and I gotta find a stable job to help them.

I'm trying to go back to the basics. Recently, I've read a chapter about capacitors and inductors and I hope that shows how much I've forgotten. I've been trying to explain it to my relatives and parents but they don't understand that my job search isn't the problem. I've really forgotten the fundamentals and if I can't convince myself that I'll do well then how can I convince the interviewer.

[en-jin-neer]

Masterlist - Books About Engineering

Here are some links (mostly Reddit discussions) where people recommend engineering books to read:

Book about engineering to read before bed

What are some of the best books that an engineering student should read?

What are some of your favorite engineering books?

Some of them are textbooks, free lectures, or .pdf files:

“The Unwritten Laws of Engineering” (.pdf)

Synthesis Lectures on Computer Architecture (lectures)

Books and other online resources organized by topic:

Embedded Systems

C++

[en-jin-neer]

I’m lacking the motivation to move on in my life or in other words starting a career. I’m so tired of studying everyday of my life that I just haven’t felt that motivation to get the reward. I planned to study for the FE exam since May and I still haven’t officially started. I’ve ordered books for practice and I still have all my notes from my classes, but I’ve been on the same topic (electromagnetics) for almost 3 months because I just don’t feel like doing it.

Currently, I’m moving on to applying to a ton of internships and entry-level jobs even if I don’t feel up for it because I don’t want my 6 months as a recent graduate to run out.

I’ve got a lot of things on my mind and I don’t know where to start. There are 2 projects I feel like doing, but my problem is saving up for it because I need to buy the stuff first. It also involves coding, which I am a complete amateur at, so I gotta get started on that too. I also feel like I should get familiar with Matlab as well since I only learned the basics. 

I also wanna start exercising again because I feel like that will make me find a way to wake up early in the morning rather than waking up between 10am and 12pm.

TL;DR - I have a plan, but I just don’t feel like doing it.

[en-jin-neer]

Found a way to update MinGW ^^

link

[en-jin-neer]

I asked my dad for help on cleaning out my hard drive because I wanna install the Arduino IDE, but I only got about 180GB left out of 512GB. I know 180GB is still a lot, but I expected much more space to be left over. But, I don’t wanna uninstall the other programs I got. Like, I don’t know how to use them (i.e. EAGLE, Blender, LabView, etc.) , but I wanna keep ‘em just in case haha

[en-jin-neer]

Just learned how to use Google Photos

Sooooo, after graduating, here I am cleaning up around my apartment because it makes me feel like I’m getting my life together. I’ve recently attached this same mindset to my digital files and decided to clean my phone gallery. After struggling since about 12pm, I have finally understood how to use Google Photos’s “Free Up Space” feature.

Okay, so before this all happened, I actually plugged my phone in to my laptop to transfer all my photo albums from my device storage to the phone’s SD card. I found out today Google Photos frees up space automatically if the photos are in the device storage. If photos are in the SD card, Google Photos only copies them and I think you have to manually delete the photos on your phone.

To fix this mess I made, I had to replug my phone to my laptop to transfer the photos, or the albums, from the SD card to the DCIM folder under “phone”. 

Within the DCIM folder, all your albums should be placed here. If it’s just photos, those should be placed in the DCIM’s Camera folder.

*sigh*

I was suppose to study for the FE exam and thought this would take me 1 hour at most.....not 9 hours T________T