Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 07:22:36 UTC No. 16179497

>>16179485
All of them with the exception of digital fundamentals and electromagnetics because the lecturer was boring as batshit

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 07:31:43 UTC No. 16179502

>>16179497
> because the lecturer was boring as batshit
I hated my Calc 3 course for the same reason, the professor was a soft spoken eastern European woman and the only way you could hear her was to compete with the rest of the class in getting one of the few seats in the front two rows.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 08:42:40 UTC No. 16179544

>>16179485
Topology (I studied algebraic topology later)

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 09:12:01 UTC No. 16179566

>>16179485
Mathematical statistics. Loved the topics and the lecturer was unreal, he was like "ok lets do some basic math reminder first" and started literally with drawing 2+2 on board. 1.5 hour later I swear, whole room understood math up to integrals.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 12:30:50 UTC No. 16179740

>>16179566
kinda cringe everyone in the room didn't understand math up to integrals before entering the classroom. Sounds like a whole lecture wasted on prerequisites for a prerequisite for mathematical statistics.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 17:42:14 UTC No. 16180165

>>16179485
Control theory, it was the first course where the profesor shared any real life expirence. It was nice to listen to him describe his work in asian factories, not boring "Id like to buy f '(x) bananas". By the end of the course I had strong desire to use pid loop in something stupid but Ive yet to achieve it.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 18:17:58 UTC No. 16180219

>>16179485
Either Differential geometry or the course I took on financial mathematics. The former I learnt alot about semi-Riemannian manifolds that I knew nothing about before, and in the latter I was introduced to Stochastics.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 18:48:13 UTC No. 16180274

>>16179485
none. I didn't enjoy any course. Choosing a STEM degree was the worse decision in my entire life.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 19:35:39 UTC No. 16180371

>>16179485
Mechanics. I had a hard time with the mathematics in my intro courses, a lot of the time it felt like the shit we were introducing was just needlessly complicating things, or coming out of nowhere.

Mechanics was the point where it suddenly all clicked that we jump through all these hoops of redefining coordinates, or reformatting problems to take a particular form, and so on is just because it turns otherwise unsolvable (or at least annoying to solve) problems and turns them into solvable (or at least slightly *less* annoying to solve) problems.

Anonymous at Fri, 17 May 2024 20:03:01 UTC No. 16180399

"Strength of Materials" Lab in Engineering Physics, using hydraulic machinery to twist, bend, and break everything we could find.

Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 04:36:26 UTC No. 16180986

>>16179485
Probably medical microbiology

Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 04:42:55 UTC No. 16180993

>>16180165
Have you ever done any digital controls stuff? If you have them you should be able to implement PID controls pretty easily via for loops in pretty much any programming language.

One of the cooler projects I did for undergrad was using a PID controller for simulated automatic insulin delivery with a continuous glucose monitor. There's already been papers on this topic so it certainly wasn't original research or anything but it was cool to figure out.

There's tons of little things like that you can do with control theory.

Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 17:39:20 UTC No. 16181766

>>16179485
>finally glad to do something other than Mech
you know that thermodynamics really is statistical mechanics, right anon?

Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 17:43:03 UTC No. 16181769

>>16181766
Yes, but I really liked the classical approach towards it.

Anonymous at Sat, 18 May 2024 18:06:35 UTC No. 16181796

>>16181769
By classical I guess you mean the intro course which you define all the quantities and processes. If you get the chance to have a stat mech course, I guarantee that you will find the derivations of these quantities much more beautiful. Also statmech is extremely applicable and as thermo is concerned it does not limit you to the equilibrium.