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| Just_another_Dave:
--- Quote from: Rick Law on October 13, 2021, 06:49:07 pm --- re: "College is a lot more than learning a topic or getting a credential...that you can probably communicate effectively, and on it goes." That really is the point of going to College, you can get a well rounded education. As important as demonstrating "...you can work on teams with other people...", it also allows you to demonstrate when given a goal, you got it done. College, like any other projects at work one must complete, there are tasks (subjects) within the project you love doing and there are tasks you are uninterested in or even hate doing. But, when you graduated, it is statement that "I got it done - even the unpleasant tasks". That said, no doubt college education is on a decline. I do not have the same "feel of quality" I got from recent graduates as compared to graduates who did it say a 15 years ago. Then, I knew many who were working part time, or even full time to pay for college while taking what would be considered hard courses. Now, I see more coasting with their student loans enjoying "studying abroad" for part of their college years. --- End quote --- When I was studying I got a part time job at one of the labs of the university. I think it was one of the best decisions I’ve ever taken, as it allowed me to learn a lot about power electronics (I loved that job indeed). That experience clearly makes a difference if you want to design electronic circuits. However, many other students just wanted the degree to get a job at a strategic consultancy firm… |
| Bassman59:
--- Quote from: olkipukki on October 11, 2021, 07:19:36 pm --- --- Quote from: rstofer on October 11, 2021, 05:25:21 pm --- If you register and get a .edu email account, MATLAB is free! .... MATLAB (student version (FREE) or personal version (costs money)) --- End quote --- Must be US deal only. Never saw free MATLAB for students or home users (exclude who has access via college/uni), you either buy a book or pay around ~$40 for base plus ~$10 for each interested package. --- End quote --- My wife works for the local public Land Grant Research University (the one with the shitty football team that's a drain on resources) and there's a decent list of software which is site licensed for students, faculty and staff. So I have MATLAB with the signal processing and the FPGA generation packages. It's possible these deals are either US-only, or on a per-institution basis. The other option is what @rstofer chose, a "personal" license which is actually quite reasonably priced. |
| RJSV:
rstofer has it right, regarding having 100 percent on-line missing the human interactive benefits. During COVID I experience INCOMPATENCE delivery, as 'they' sit, in bedroom 'study' areas. Can't hear them, in their masks, as they spout simple nonsense, stupid bookcase set up behind them. Literally, I'm going to remember, bookcases, those stupid fake bookcases. One public service agency seemed way to focused, on that phoney, mock-up 'bedroom office', and new rules, now, you get 2 tries, to answer your phone call-back. I can't hear most of the incompetence, and, oh shiii, another mask just broke, putting it on. That about sums it up: Required masks, too cheaply made, 4 out of 10 break, as you try to attach elastic around face... (Sigh...) |
| RJSV:
Uh, previous post, not meant to focus on COVID Dynamics, what I mean is the bedroom office, along with all the various media based training, cannot replace or supersede the regular face to face dynamic. When I have a person, I have to interact with, a regular face to face meeting, (with a lawyer), he wants to 'glance' at some documents I've brought to the meeting, no big deal. Today, he is going to ask: Please FAX SCAN and those. ...That's like 24 pages, ( $ 1.50 per page, at store). I just feel, many of these 'remote' solutions fall short and encourage (incompetence), while focus on many distractions, not tolerated in a 'real' office setting. A book store owner, other day, didn't want to open door, transact my paid order,... now that's just bad feeling, all around. This temporary state of business, it's no model for future. |
| armandine2:
https://www.math.uchicago.edu/~luis/pde/wave.html a distraction, of sorts, is to try and draw an initial cosine wave displacement with sinusoidal velocity that appears to stand still. |
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