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Hi :D

I am very inspired by your posts on stressless summer learning and I honestly love it! I've been learning inverse kinematics for a robotic arm lately using similar learning methods because fuck yea robotics 🥳

However I do have to ask, where do you like to learn? I find sitting at my desk prompts me to play games or doomscroll youtube at times, while sitting outside to write in my journal causes me to want to go inside. I just feel attached to playing the same games every day and I honestly hate the cycle.

Very happily - Unishine

Ps Electrical engineering rocks!

Thanks, I'm happy that you feel inspired by my post 🙂 and that you know, what you want to learn. Good luck!

Hi

I usually learn at my desk, because what I'm learning requires a computer and I'm too lazy to take a laptop and go outside 🙃. I'm planning to change it, because I know I spend too much time indoors. Maybe I can go study at a park or on a café? And maybe you can do it, too. Although changing your studying environment may help you concentrate, I think your main problem isn't where you study, but that you have access to these games. If you have more than one computer (for example, a laptop and a PC), you can uninstall these games from one od them, or, if these are online games - use a browser extension, that blocks certain websites to block them. For example, you can have the games on the PC, but uninstall/block them on the laptop and use this laptop only for learning. Same with YouTube, you can block it, of it makes you distracted. And if it's something, that doesn't require internet connection, you may download all necessary study materials, and study offline. And when you find yourself doomscrolling, try to distract yourself from the bad news, even by watching another YouTube video, but a more positive one, or by talking to someone, or reading something positive. This applies to all times you doomscroll, not only when you should be learning, because the only thing doomscrolling does to you is drain your energy and make your mood worse. It's not worth your emotions.

Hope it helps,

Helena

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what's it like being an electrical engineer? what does the job entail? is it fun?

That's not an easy question, because electrical engineers are almost everywhere, in every tech company, so the jobs vary. I can only tell you, what it looks like from my own experience. I work in a gas power company and my job is basically to find solutions for already existing problems, which occur as a result of failures of the equipment or human errors. It's interesting, mostly because it's different every time, there's no such thing as two similar problems. It may be a problem with a circuit breaker, cable trays, surge protection, whatever electrical equipment in a gas power plant you can imagine. What's challenging in this job, but also what makes it interesting is, that it requires very broad knowledge, sometimes not only electrical, but also about the turbine itself. At my previous job, I was a design engineer. I designed modular inverter and rectifier systems. At first, it seemed interesting, but after some time it got kind of repetitive, because the projects were very similar to each other. There's not so much you can change in an inverter/rectifier system. It's a standard and the only things that change from project to project are protection devices, wires, terminals, etc., generally minor changes. That was the main reason, why I started looking for a new job. The other reason was, that I had previous experience with power plants and wanted to come back to it, but in a different way. Power electronics wasn't really my cup of tea. Before the inverters and rectifiers, I had a boring, mostly Excel-related job in a power plant, but that was just some meaningless paperwork, not even worth mentioning. My first job was an internship, also in a power plant and that was my first experience with gas turbines. During the internship I did relatively simple tasks, like drawing circuit diagrams or reviewing operating instruction manuals for new equipment, but I was still a student at that time, completely new to the industry, so it was a valuable experience and I learned a lot. Is it fun? As for my current job, I'd say it is, because every problem is different and because gas turbines are interesting for me in general. Is it challenging? Sometimes it is, but that's a good thing, because if something is not challenging, it's boring. It's good for ambitious people, who are willing to learn a lot, bad for someone, who wants to just come to work, do the bare minimum for 8 hours and leave. I'm really happy that I chose to study electrical engineering, wouldn't change it for anything else. It's not easy and never will be, but It's the best decision I could have made.

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all the best for your studies and have a great day!

Thank you! 😺 all the best to you, too 💖

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Are there any study-with-me channels that you recommend?

No, I don't watch study-with-me channels. But maybe I'll find some?

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List five things that make you happy, then put this in the ask box of the last ten people who reblogged something from you! Spread the happiness and positivity. 💖🖤

Hi, thanks for asking ☺

5 things that make me happy:

My cats 🐱

Hanging out with friends (especially the ones I can have deep and meaningful conversations with) 😃

Warm tea 🍵

Power plants (weird, I know, but I just want to know everything about turbines, generators, reactors etc.) 🏭

Thunderstorms (lightnings are so beautiful) 🌩