u/EpicKahootName

I think I making this post for 2 reasons: 1) I want attention. 2) I want a solution to the problem.

I have been in engineering for 4 years now. I have 2 more years to go. All my friends have graduated and are making money, going out, etc, etc. Typical adult things that I really want to be a part of. Yet here I am drinking, alone, on a Saturday night. Drinking whiskey alone. My friends are out celebrating UGA beating bama. I haven't hung out with them in months because I have recently gained weight the past few weeks(stopped going to the gym as soon as the semester started) and classes aren't going well.

I know the end solution is I just need to get over myself, but why can't I do that. Why the hell am I writing this post or watching movies or drinking instead of just studying and finishing school. It's really annoying and I am aware my problems are pathetic.

I know I am smart enough to finish an engineering degree. I have aced exams in hard classes(I got a 100% on a difficult diff eq exam once). I don't know why I just don't work. Genuinely this is pathetic. Just study.

I have just recently picked up the idea of drinking alone. I have had a bottle of whiskey my brother bought me for my birthday. It sat there for years; I never had the idea of drinking in a non social context. Things are getting worse. I've done it 3 nights in a row.

I wish I had somebody that could just punch me in the face and make me study.

I guess I am really embarrassed about graduating late and I also seem to get easily overwhelmed from workloads that I am capable of handling. Any words of encouragement/objective advice would be helpful. I feel so stupid. I don't know what my problem is.

I made sure to double check my grammar and spelling since I am sloshed,

Edit: thanks for responding everyone. It’s helped

I've been working grill for like a month and getting to the point where I can cut a chicken in under 5 minutes has my my shifts go from insanely stressful to very manageable. But some days, like today, my cutting just isn't working. My cuts will sometimes not cut the chicken skin at the bottom leaving multiple pieces stuck together. Also the chickens will move around more and slide with the knife so I will have to stop and readjust my hand to hold the chicken tight which adds a lot of time. Again, this isn't consistently a problem.

I pinch the knife right above the handle and apply a small amount of pressure down and let the sliding do the cutting.

I don't think it's knife sharpness, because I sharpened multiple knifes throughout the day because I could feel the differences after sharpening with steak.

I am putting the chicken skin down.

It was pretty slow today so I wasn't as urgent at getting my chickens off. Is it possible that slightly over cooking the chicken is changing the texture to make it difficult to cut?

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Previously I swapped out some crossbows and SEs for Jade Halberds. Cut all the frontline.

With the advent of the alchemist range ability buff and it's ability to provide harmony, it has become insanely good in this build. The gate master ability to buff range is also huge. I never used gate masters before. The lore of life is also huge because you don't have to be so careful about conserving your lions hp and can use them as stoppers which is all you need for a build with this much slowing and dps.

Generally what you do is you find a corner, clump your crossbows and cannons in such a way that they all fit into the gate master buff range. Do not touch your gate master the entire game.

For SEs:Take your Jade Lions, Yin caster, and Astromancer to take out ideal targets(isolated artillery, isolated chariots, etc). This will slow the advance and allows your cannons to use all there ammo. Once the enemy gets in crossbow range keep your casters in range of the approaching front line. Use the Yin caster slow spell(which is spell amped to the point it is essentially a net), missile mirror on enemy artillery(this should really only be if it's an artillery heavy army as your goon squad should be able to kill most artillery)and if need be its ancestral warrior summons to tar pit. On your alchemist use your range buff and plague of rust on its most armored targets. If the enemy has a lot of SEs you should bring her out ASAP to start final transmuting SEs. Astromancer should basically just cast windblast for slow and spell amped chain lighting will shread any unit). Clawspeaker should be held back and just used to heal SEs.

For ranged: Make sure all ranged are gate master buffed. Fan them out to cover each flank and front. Cannons will have a range advantage over any enemy artillery so use it to take them out first. Then focus cannons on SEs. You don't micro crossbows. Focus your micro on tar pitting and spells to just give those crossbows time to shoot.

I’m aware I am new and I will grow more cynical but I like manager and co workers.

I’m working grill and I think I’m starting to pick up the flow of the grill shift. Definitely still have a lot to improve at and learn though. I’m sure once I stop having a manager/grill vet checking on me it will get a lot harder.

My manager seems very willing to work with my schedule which is awesome. At my last job my manager/shift leaders screwed me and I ended up failing all my classes and dropping out.

I also get along with my coworkers very well and they have been very welcoming.

I hope it works out.

I had my interview about 3 hours ago, was told I would get an email about the next steps, got an email about what to do before my first shift, but I can't find a starting date/time in the email or workday application.

Also, how do you guys like this job? Is grilling hard? I cook my own food on a pan all the time, but that's only for one person. How difficult is it to pick up shifts to get overtime?

I almost got screwed last semester as I registered for a PHYS 2212 section which didn't have an instructor designated. The section ended up getting completely dropped and if there wasn't an eCore section seat open I would've been screwed.

Well this semester I am in a similar situation where I had to register for a class with no designated instructor because it was the last section that had seats.

I am wondering if anyone else has experience with this and know how likely it is that I get screwed again. If so I need to start making other plans.

I was messing around as China just testing somethings out and ended turning one of my cities into a city state. I'm trying to learn how to farm it lol. Can individual cities rebel when your empire as a whole is happy?

I would like to get started on the material this summer. I emailed a professor that I registered the class for, but they never replied.

If you are willing, just let me know and I will DM my school email.

Thanks!

This is a really big accomplishment for me. This was literally my last chance and I did it. I don't know if other schools have this, but at my school, you need a 2.8 gpa in some pre req classes(PHYS 1/2, calc 1/2,etc).

There is actually a funny and maybe motivating story about how I reached this point.

I have been college for 6 years and I am not set to graduate for 2 more years or 45 credit hours. I didn't take my first 4 years of college serious at all. I had changed majors a couple times didn't care about failing classes, sometimes took barley any credit hours. Finally, I saw all my friends graduating, getting jobs, making money and I realized they weren't going to wait for me. So I locked in and started getting good grades. Got an A in ODE, B in statics, C in dynamics(that's good for me, it was a hard class - although I have gotten smarter since then).

But, there was one class that was posing a big issue for me. The last class I needed for engineering academic standing. PHYS2212 - electricity and magnetism. I had attempted this class 3 times before. You are capped at 3 attempts at my school for a class, unless granted an exception by the department head. Even worse, I didn't even know I had attempted this class 3 times. That's how insanely lazy I used to be. I never showed up to the class so I didn't even remember taking it. So submitted a form to take the class a 3rd time. A few days later, I get an email from my advisor. She doesn't seem pleased. I have a meeting with the ME department head. She wants to discuss my future in engineering.

So I schedule the meeting a week later. I dress nice, I think about what I am going to say. I show up early. As soon as the meeting started, she was grilling me. In short: "So I am looking at your transcript. You had a bad gpa in high school and you have a bad gpa now. Why do you think that is" in only slightly more diplomatic language. Initially, I was pretty shocked, I had anticipated her bringing up my college gpa, but not my high school gpa. I basically said "uh". She stopped me and said "you realize your future in engineering isn't guaranteed, right?". Then, I snapped by into shape, told her how serious I took the situation, and gave her my reasons for my low gpa in high school and college: I didn't care and I wasn't ready for college straight out of high school. I wasn't mature enough. I also cited my recent grades in other classes and my midterm grades as evidence I had changed. She liked all my answers and agreed with me. We actually started getting along a lot in the meeting talking about our interest. She was very helpful and granted me an exception to take physics 2 one last time.

Because of the delays in registering for this class, I ended up getting stuck with a "crappy"(which means hard) professor. A lot of people don't do well in his class.\

So I show up to class next semester, and not only is he difficult professor, but it turns out electricity, magnetism, waves, diffraction, flux, etc are insanely difficult topics! This was the hardest class I had taken. By far. Not only that, but I needed to get a B in order qualify for engineering academic standing.

Well, it was hard as hell, but I did it. I got an 84 in physics 2. I have a 2.83 gpa which meets the requirements. I studied so hard for that class. I have come out smarter.

Anyway if there are any takeways from my college experience it is:

1. Don't give up

2. You need to find a reason to shape up

I had some much stress about this class for the past 12 weeks. Now I need to stress about getting an internship, a girlfriend, getting in shape. Uhg.

Thanks for reading!