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(I will not promote) Questions about Tetr

Well, My Facebook feed has been flooded with this school’s promotion. As a first-timer who wants to create a startup, flighting you to 7 countries and build your own startup there sounds attractive to me. However, this school gives me a sense of uncertainty, it just feels like teaching you how to build a company without further skills building of other certain areas. I mean, what if we failed? If we go bankrupt after graduation, we don’t have any backups to help us get back to a work that supports our life. You may argue that there are jobs with no specific skills, I mean who likes the fact that they can be easily replaced? I’m not pessimistic, just concerned, because 90% of startups failed. Can anyone in school or graduated from Tetr answer me this question with your personal experience?

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 6 hours ago

(i will not promote)Questions about Tetr

Well, My Facebook feed has been flooded with this school’s promotion. As a first-timer who wants to create a startup, flighting you to 7 countries and build your own startup there sounds attractive to me. However, this school gives me a sense of uncertainty, it just feels like teaching you how to build a company without further skills building of other certain areas. I mean, what if we failed? If we go bankrupt after graduation, we don’t have any backups to help us get back to a work that supports our life. You may argue that there are jobs with no specific skills, I mean who likes the fact that they can be easily replaced? I’m not pessimistic, just concerned, because 90% of startups failed. Can anyone in school or graduated from Tetr answer me this question with your personal experience?

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 6 hours ago

Will investors be interested in the products that need specific knowledge of my major?

Hello, everyone in r/Investors, the question is written above. In addition, my major includes hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering, do investors nowadays still put their capital in it or they’ll just give the money to a random AI startup instead?

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 4 days ago

A question about my career

Hello, everyone, I’m a freshman in a community college who is currently in a major that involves hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering. As I know, our job is mostly about solving problems from government. However, I’m also wondering: What else can you do besides working for government or starting a company if you want to have a job in this field? Is personal service an option for my major?

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 4 days ago

Where else can you work in if your major in college is hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering?

Hello, everyone, I’m a freshman in a community college who is currently in a major that involves hydraulic engineering and environmental engineering. As I know, our job is mostly about solving problems from government. However, I’m also wondering: What else can you do besides working for government or starting a company if you want to have a job in this field? Is personal service an option for my major?

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 4 days ago

Hi everyone,

I'm a freshman engineering student looking into how we can automate technical documentation workflows. In my own projects, I've noticed that only about 30% of the time goes into actual design work — the other 70% is spent fighting Word/LaTeX/Markdown just to make the report look "professional" for clients or supervisors.

But beyond the formatting nightmare, I've been exploring what might actually be a bigger pain point: Technical Paraphrasing — a built-in feature that helps non-engineers (clients, managers, stakeholders) understand complex technical data by translating engineering jargon and raw numbers into clear, actionable summaries, without losing technical integrity.

I'd love to get your perspective on both:

On Formatting & Automation

  1. Is formatting technical specs or project reports a significant time-sink in your workflow, or is it something you've already automated away with templates?
  2. Do you use any specific tools (beyond standard templates) to keep your docs consistent?
  3. If there were a "Zero-UI" tool that turned your raw data and notes into a formatted report, would you actually trust it — or would you still spend an hour checking it anyway?

On Communication & Paraphrasing 4. Do you often find yourself spending extra time in meetings explaining reports that stakeholders didn't fully understand? 5. Would a tool that helps you draft "layman's terms" summaries of your technical work be genuinely useful, or is that something you'd rather handle yourself? 6. If you had to prioritize one, which saves more cognitive load — fixing your document formatting, or helping you paraphrase technical content for non-experts?

I'm trying to make sure this project solves a real-world problem rather than a theoretical one, so any honest feedback is hugely appreciated. Thanks for your time!

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 23 days ago

Hi everyone, I’m a student currently looking into legal tech and workflow automation. While reading about the industry, I keep seeing mentions of how "onerous" and "tedious" document formatting and styling can be (MS Word styles, TOCs, citations, etc.).

I’m trying to figure out if this is a genuine daily headache or if I'm overestimating the problem.

• For the practitioners: Is formatting actually a significant time-sink in your day, or do you have templates/support staff that make it a non-issue?

• For the paralegals: Is "fixing Word" a huge part of the job, or is it just a minor annoyance?

If you could wave a magic wand and automate one part of your documentation process (without it breaking the rest of the file), what would it be? Or is the current "manual" way actually fine once you get the hang of it?

Just trying to get some boots-on-the-ground perspective before I dive deeper into this area for a project. Thanks in advance!

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 23 days ago

Hi everyone, I’m a student currently looking into legal tech and workflow automation. While reading about the industry, I keep seeing mentions of how "onerous" and "tedious" document formatting and styling can be (MS Word styles, TOCs, citations, etc.). I’m trying to figure out if this is a genuine daily headache or if I'm overestimating the problem. • For the practitioners: Is formatting actually a significant time-sink in your day, or do you have templates/support staff that make it a non-issue? • For the paralegals: Is "fixing Word" a huge part of the job, or is it just a minor annoyance? If you could wave a magic wand and automate one part of your documentation process (without it breaking the rest of the file), what would it be? Or is the current "manual" way actually fine once you get the hang of it? Just trying to get some boots-on-the-ground perspective before I dive deeper into this area for a project. Thanks in advance!

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u/Alan_Lin_on_reddit — 23 days ago