The subtle disadvantages of being a FIRST Alumni

[philso]

I would have to agree with Damprobot that you may be experiencing burnout so I would advise you not to work on your current personal projects since they seem to be in the areas that you may be burnt out in. Since it is difficult to really "do nothing", and if you are really ahead of your peers, you may want to consider offering to tutor some your peers. I had one schoolmate who was in the Engineering Physics program (the hardest classes from EE and ME), took graduate level courses and got over 95% in all his courses in all his 4 years. He was also incredibly humble, approachable and more generous with his time helping those of us who struggled than most of the other top students.

If you have a student loan (and even if you don't), you might consider getting a job. It will give you some cash and some real world experience working for and with other people. That would be as valuable as your FIRST experience when you are looking for employment after you graduate.

As techhelpbb suggested, figure out what gives you fulfillment. If you are doing something you find fulfilling, you can do it with passion. People who work with passion are much more likely to do better work, do something great and go further in life than those who just plod along.

[Caleb Sykes]

kylewalrus has a reputation beyond repute less than 14 minutes after his first post on CD.

[Link07]

This thread is hilarious

[IronicDeadBird]

Originally Posted by faust1706

I'd like to thank all of you for giving me guidance. I needed it.

Here is where I'm at right now. My advisor told me to go for another major (along with comp sci and physics), something that I know nothing about (I'm thinking ee or comp e. I know the basics but that's it). Or to transfer to somewhere with a more intellectual environment.

I'm rushing sigep. Taking some time out of the lab. I have an interview for an internship with union pacific tomorrow morning so there is that too.



That is basically what my advisor told me. I started doing research with the university my senior year of high school. This school doesn't have much to offer me, socially or academically. I'm thinking about transferring to Harvey Mudd next year, even though the atmosphere will kill my cf.

I try to mentor other teams. Last year I helped a grand total of 14 teams with computer vision, and this year I plan to solve the vision challenge over winter break as a for fun thing, and have it tested and good to go for anyone who wants it. I might do it in multiple languages, but I'll probably stick to c++ and python. The kid I left in charge of vision for the team doesn't need my help. I taught him calc 1 during build season just because I knew he could handle it, he was a freshman at the time.

As for student programs, I go to the buddhist temple just about every night. It helps me cope with having CF. We have a lot of student design teams, our school placed second in the mars rover challenge last year I believe.

I have my own projects that I'm working on, but I'm running out of ideas fast. I write the same code in python, c++, and matlab and test to see which one is fastest just out of pure boredom.

I run to fill my afternoons too. I would join the cross country team but cf just recently put me in the hospital for 2 weeks and that can happen at a moments notice, so sports are kind of out of the question. I do intramural soccer here, but it's not as competitive as I like it. I was captain of my soccer team in high school.



oh boy, I haven't done tensor stuff in awhile. Let me dissect the question as I think about it:

Some more background: (in relativity) the electromagnetic field is described by a 4D antisymmetric tensor.

quoting my physics professor "An anti-symmetric tensor is a tensor in which exchanging two indices negates the tensor"

By divergence (the antisymmetrized derivative) is zero in a vacuum, and obviously is not zero when there is charge or a current.

I do not conceptually understand why it produces a photon, but it does. I haven't thought about it that much. But I'm only in the first physics class.

Speaking about physics, it irritates me that the Nobel prize was given to something so simple. Maybe I just don't appreciate it.

As for the second question, that is a simple Fourier transformation.

Ah, the classic double pendulum question. It is a system of chaos, to give the cop out answer, as you have stated. The system is governed by a system of diff eq. The vision program I wrote my sophomore year of high school solved a system of partial diff eq (camera pose estimation). If you're really interested, i presented this at ISWEEEP, the international science fair: https://www.dropbox.com/s/5wbgtie9vc...ation.ppt?dl=0

Of course my boeing mentor helped me with the math, it was about half and half. Neither of us could have done it without the other.

I have spent a lot of time on the hospital bed due to having cf. I finished the vision program my sophomore year in the hospital at 2am a week before competition. My junior year I missed 2 months of school due to being sick. Senior year was about a month. It has allowed me to develop academically.

Having cf greatly reduces the amount of time I have here, and I want to actually "contribute a verse" and I feel like I'm wasting my time right now.

Edit* forgot about the last question: if I remember right, I believe it is called the magnus effect. It's very similar to that of an air foil, I believe. I do not believe anyone actually has mathematically explained it, I'd be more than happy to see one if one exists though.

My shenanigans meter is going off, I'm not calling you a liar at all let us be clear. The tone, appeal, wording, just everything seems to have changed through a post...
Enlighten me Faust...
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?

Anyway cynical side being put out there it sounds like you have been active at taking steps to not just uh state your situation but to change it. Good on ya!

[Oblarg]

Originally Posted by inkling16

kylewalrus has a reputation beyond repute less than 14 minutes after his first post on CD.

I find this rather disappointing, to be frank. Even moreso because whoever ostensibly felt this thread really would be improved by that post still felt the need to create a throwaway account to say it. If you're going to be a jerk, at least own up to it.

[Joe G.]

Mods, I think this thread has served its purpose.

[Caleb Sykes]

Originally Posted by Oblarg

I find this rather disappointing, to be frank. Even moreso because whoever ostensibly felt this thread really would be improved by that post still felt the need to create a throwaway account to say it. If you're going to be a jerk, at least own up to it.

I agree that people should own up to their posts and not make throwaway accounts, which this one probably is. I also find it interesting that so many CDers gave immediate support for this post. Clearly though, not everyone supports this, since he no longer (as of 1 hour after the post) has a reputation beyond repute.

[artK]

Originally Posted by inkling16

kylewalrus has a reputation beyond repute less than 14 minutes after his first post on CD.

Bill Miller still has him beat for reputation per post.

[MooreteP]

Welcome to Chief Delphi Reddit.

[kylewalrus]

This isn't a throwaway account. I've been lurking for the past 4 years and just finally made an account.

Anyway, what did I miss?

Edit: 2987 rep? lol

[Sam_Mills]

[You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to kylewalrus again.]