#engineering-rants

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For the most part all my courses have finally reached a close leaving only the capstone class remaining. There is a fair amount left to tackle, so I foresee some long days ahead. Honestly, I am looking forward to the semester ending and graduating just so I can take a month or two off from everything. I didn’t realize until Friday how much I just need a break.  Since coming to university, I’ve either been a full time student struggling to balance self-care and classes. Or if I was not in classes then I was working for engineering companies to get experience. It takes a long time to break down a person with just a boat load of work but I am finally at that point.  The end is in sight. 2 days remaining. (23/08/2020)

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Same online synthesizer, Same.

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I officially have 2/3 formula sheets filled in. The game plan is to use the last one for formulas more commonly used, or definitions that might be more useful. This closed-book exam is honestly a lot.  (11/08/2020)

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Using a random photo from my photos since I’m honestly getting too tired to even take them. The days feel so long. I’ll work on a project all day and then review course notes while fighting off sleep. At this rate I am questioning how functional I really can be on so little sleep. But on the bright side the end is in sight, so today will be a lot of prep work for the last day.  I think the first thing I will do once the semester ends is just make a massive dinner, and sleep in the next day. 1 day remaining (24/08/2020)

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Today is potentially the last lecture of my undergraduate degree. It dawned on my this morning as I sipped on my coffee and stared at the screen that this was it. It also made me realize how different the semester of online classes has been to in person. I think I would have been far more sentimental if it was in person classes. I feel like it would be quite the moment to walk out of the lecture hall, with the fellow engineers that I have drowned with. If these were in person classes I would have walked through the labs one last time. I could have sat in the chair that I basically rarely left during the summer semester. Or I could have gone into the labs where I spent countless hours with my capstone partner debugging every single little bug that came across our path.  It is moments like this that I realize how attached I had become to the student life. I have so many good memories as well as horrible experiences. Throughout my degree I’ve met so many people, some of which I have become quite close too. I think its safe to say that I am going to be reflecting a lot more as this semester comes to an end.  15 days until the end of the semester. (10/08/2020)

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ONE MORE EXAM, AND THEN I AM DONE FOR THE SEMESTER (and hopefully for the rest of my degree). I spent the day basically walking through every example and trying to memorize formulas for tomorrow. I’m glad this exam is in the afternoon because there are still quite a few things left to review. (20/08/2020)

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As finals season stretches on, I can feel myself growing less and motivated.  I think I have hit the wall and am burning out slowly. This morning I stumbled onto the show “The Monkey King” and now all I want to do is watch it rather than study.  The decision making course is my last exam, and I cannot for the life of me imagine what it will be like. The last section that we learned which will be tested is essentially the building blocks to neural networks. So now I am hoping I dont have to write out a whole reinforcement training algorithm in the exam step by step.... 7 days until the end of semester.

(18/08/2020)

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Job Hunting Struggles Diary #3

Copying over your friendly, primitive text resume only to find that the website will auto bold it and it cant be unbolded so now you have to retype it all