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Laureando in ingegneria meccanica (inizialmente biomedica, poi feci il cambio in triennale e continui i mec per la magistrale). I primi anni ero preso da sogni e speranze di fare ricerca e magari prendermi un dottorato su argomenti fighi e quasi fantascientifici del bambino nerd che guardava la tv e voleva essere uno di quei scienziati e inventori nei cartoni, però poi mi sono riscontrato con la realtà, dopo la magistrale non credo di voler continuare, il mondo accademico vuol dire stare per anni come post doc a prendere due spicci sapendo che i professori associati sono spesso raccomandati. Nonostante i sogni di formula 1, di creare robot come il Da Vinci per le sale operatorie o di studiare la fusione nucleare... In Italia i lavori offerti sono spesso cose che possono fare i periti e i tecnici, tranne poche realtà dove è più complicato entrare, i titoli alti sono più una perdita di tempo se non per poche R&D, quindi o si va all'estero o si è tropo qualificati.

Vengo da una famiglia povera, però i miei genitori conoscono un po' tutti, tra attività per feste di paese, eventi, catechismo, mio padre poi che ha fatto lavoretti e favori come tuttofare il fine settimana per gente importante tra cui un imprenditore a capo di un bel posticino, (non farò nomi per privacy, non è grandissima, ma è una realtà che lavora anche a livello internazionale con aziende molto Big), poi io ho un po' di confidenza con la figlia avendo più o meno la stessa età e avendo fatto le stesse scuole studiavamo insieme fin dalle elementari (Lei all'università ha fatto gestionale ma gli esami base alla fine sono gli stessi), alla fine ho la possibilità di entrare in un bel posticino conoscendo sia quelli a capo che i figli. Il piano è fare uno stage/tirocinio post laurea, poi essere assunto e sfruttare gli agganci per salvarmi dal limbo dei 1200 euro al mese dei neolaureati e poter salire di livello, anche poi dovessi lasciare sarebbe una bella esperienza da mettere su un curriculum. C'era un bando dove cercavano figure neolaureate o laureande e, in maniera molto diretta, ho trovato il modo di essere preso, mi sono fatto mandare un numero e con una telefonata mi sono garantito un posto, e mi sento una merda sapendo che ci sarà gente con CV super preparati e che sosterranno colloqui e saranno scartati solo perché ho chiesto un favore. Però...

Ho sempre odiato e provato invidia per i figli di. Ho avuto compagni figli di dottori e dentisti con studi privati, uno col papà che con dei soci gestiscono un'impresa IT che dopo il liceo, indirizzo scienze applicate (neanche l'itis) è entrato perché sapeva programmare, quando molti laureati prendono la metà, poi la gente che ha ereditato terreni e case dei nonni e che non sapranno mai davvero cosa significa avere un mutuo da pagare, mentre io non avevo niente se non la vergogna che spesso arrivavamo a fine mese con poco e niente, che alcune gite o uscite con amici non erano possibili per risparmiare, che la PlayStation era una cosa che potevo solo toccare a casa di altri, non provo rancore per i miei, per quel poco che avevano non mi hanno fatto mancare nulla, ma ho sempre odiato i raccomandati, ero un ragazzino infondo volevo urlare al mondo di come fosse sfigato, per certi periodi solo uno dei miei lavorava (una volta mio padre, una volte mia madre) e dovemmo andare alla Caritas, a momenti eravamo da case popolari, poi per fortuna nonostante un mutuo e pochi sfizi se la sono cavata e abbiamo un discreto appartamento.

Ora però sono un adulto, e ho capito che ho un occasione, nonostante tutta la merda che ho dovuto supportare. Non voglio diventare ricchissimo, mai importato, sono sempre stato contento di prendere il grosso dei vestiti in offerta o al mercato svegliandomi presto per fare a botte con le vecchie alle bancarelle, non voglio abiti firmati, le vacanze alle Maldive, sono uno che sta a casa e ogni tanto esce con amici il fine settimana, non ho molte pretese, però voglio avere una stabilità economica e in un mondo dove ciò è sempre più difficile, voglio farlo. E se devo andare contro i principi del me di 13 anni? Sti cazzi. Il lavoro non sarà molto attinente al mio percorso, non essendo vicinissimo al mio ambito di specializzazione, Meno competenze tecniche come progettista e più logistiche/manageriali, non sarà la cosa più emozionante del mondo ma alla fine sembra comunque figo, e probabilmente sarebbe meglio di quello che puoi trovare su LinkedIn.

At the end of the day biomedical engineers are people using engineering principles applied to biomedical problems. Some have a background in biomedical engineering, others in traditional engineering, others aren't engineers at all but have a degree in science (biology, chemistry, physics, math, computer science, etc...)

A biomedical engineer in medical robotics doesn't need much biology at all. On the flipside some biomedical engineers basically become biotecnologists in grad school working in wet labs. Someone doing biomaterials might use more chemistry and less electrical engineering principles than someone in imaging. Math is a powerful tool but a few engineers might forget half of their programs as they mostly rely on statistics and linear algebra while others (bio fluid dynamics) won't shut up about Navier-Stokes equations.

Bioengineering is even worse. Bioengineering is used for environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology (waste water treatment, bacteria and other microorganisms for bioremediation, mathematical modeling of pollutants), but also for genetic engineering (which, again, not really engineering besides the name), but some journals publish electrical engineering research as well because sometimes it's used interchangeably for biomedical engineering so while usually people would tell you bioengineering is the more science thing while biomedical does prosthetics and medical devices, it's not always true.

Now I understand why biomedical engineers have an hard time getting jobs. Your title doesn't mean shit by itself, it's the experience that matters. A mechanical engineer will work in medical devices because they know mechanical principles and can take an elective in biomedical to learn the basics of anatomy for biomechanics or organs like the heart to make models or design a valve, but a biomedical engineer? Some school, especially ABET accredited ones, give you some basics classes of various engineering fields, others specialize in one from the start (electrical and biomedical, mechanical and biomedical, chemical/material and biomedical) and some make you take immunology, genetics and other things that make you end up as an hybrid. Grad school also accepts people from different backgrounds and the requirements aren't as hard to meet as traditional engineering degrees, a biologist taking calculus 3 might get in even if they don't have the electrical knowledge because the program is focused on tissue engineering, but the title is still "biomedical engineering master/PhD".

Anyways just wanted to yap about it. I'm combining biomedical with mechanical, at least to have better prospects for job applications (like automotive, aerospace, energy, nuclear, sales, manufacturing) because I don't have a lot of medical device companies nearby me, and I see other biomedical engineers going to pharma, med school, grad school, because a bachelor often doesn't cut it. I guess that's the curse of being a "jack of all trades master of none", which is funny, because while it is true you have plenty of knowledge most of it is specialized in biomedical problems, meanwhile mechanical engineering is specialized in mechanics (so no advanced electrical or computer or chemical work) but more generalist, can be applied to most things, even in civil and structural engineering, chemical and process engineering, material science, energy and nuclear, naval architecture and, yes, also biomedical engineering.

Something that is happening less and less (looking at you Fallen Ivy, you're basically sidegrade Winter Ivy).

I'm thinking about units such as Attuned Micaiah (usually middling speed, low HP, high atk and res) that has 30 defense and 16 speed and heals and removes stat penalties/cleanse debuffs (while other Micaiah's tend to do the debuffing themselves). Or Emblem Byleth (his ring is the cancer that killed dancers but as an unit himself he's really unique, also that def stat and res stat for a mage, usually he has mixed bulk but emblem is really minmaxed, probably due to instruct), brave Eikþyrnir becoming an armored savior to reference his dad while his other alts are more slow high def lowish res nukes/frontline fighters with movement and canto (while still maintaining the +3 increased bonus gimmick).

L'adozione internazionale è costosa ma per il resto offre numerosi vantaggi:

• ha tempi di attesa più snelli, in Italia è più lungo;
• non devi essere sposato ma anche single (in Italia devi essere sposato da almeno 3 anni, oppure conviventi da almeno tre anni e infine sposati, paradossalmente c'è ancora il problema per le coppie omosessuali unite civilmente ma una persona gay single può adottare);
• (per alcuni paesi) puoi di fatto scegliere etnia, età e sesso, in Italia non puoi scegliere un bambino come figlio essendo un processo che include assistenti sociali e tribunale dei minori;

Capisco che spesso i ragazzi in queste situazioni hanno situazioni difficili (abbandonati, tolti dalle famiglie, genitori morti, e varie situazioni varie), alcuni presentano traumi e comportamenti quasi violenti, alcuni possono avere handicap che comporta dei genitori preparati alle varie necessità mediche (sia fisiologiche che fisiche), non dico che tutti dovrebbero adottare come se andassero a comprare un bebè al supermercato, però a volte mi pare eccessivo nel senso opposto, tanto che persone interessate perdono interesse e si sentono scoraggiate, o usano altri metodi.

For classes like calculus, algebra, physics, I use videos to supplement the material from textbooks or slides, most of the curriculum (mechanical with a mechatronics focus engineering student) is based on logic, math and understanding why you do certain things, so memorization isn't that useful, AI summarizes won't help you there (besides learning some proofs for theorems or memorizing formulas but most of the books are around a few hundred pages at max if you exclude the exercises).

Meanwhile... Some class do require some memorization. Metallurgy, business management, I also took electives in biomedical engineering (gonna do a senior project about an hand exoskeleton for stroke patients and one of the professors does research in rehabilitation engineering) and in work sociology, for those sometimes... I kinda do use it.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not studying using some AI slop notes, I listen in class, reorganize my notes at home and supplement with additional things from the professor, however... Half of the time the recommended material is useless or too convoluted. I need to know the basics, I'm not a biomedical engineer so I don't require advanced anatomy and physiology, just enough to understand how medical devices are designed, I'm not in industrial engineering or finances so the economics classes should cover what I'd need without going in details about the historical parts and laws and those kind of things, I need to know the properties of materials (like what alloy to use etc...) if I plan to design a plane wing, but unless I specialize in material science the advanced physics and chemistry and the technological processes aren't something a teacher would expect me to know in full details.

AI... Simplify a process I used to make that was time consuming, removing the unnecessary parts so I can focus on the syllabus more. A lot of the times the material is written for a group of students so it tends to explain different things so each major can pick the parts important to them, it makes sense, however when it was time to make flashcards or a concept map diagram I'd have to read it all or most of it to extract all the necessary information, multiple times too. I still do it, but just once or twice, AI can allucinate and i wouldn't trust it, and I still like to learn fun facts and parts that I may never use in life but you never know, education is supposed to be fun, but AI speeds this process, I load my stuff and it cuts the parts I don't need, it makes me a bullet point list with some short descriptions, helps when I need a definition as I can type it on that (unlike Google which can be time consuming and inaccurate, having a "search engine" that contains only the things you upload in it is lifesaving).

• I feel like I'm college there are two oppositions: AI is bad, brain will shrink, back in the day we used to write with paper and ink: I feel like there are benefits to the "old style method" but when you have multiple classes in a semester a shortcut isn't so bad, a lot of the time studying is time consuming because it's more of an hassle to understand what you have to do and starting, so you "waste time" without having learned that much.
• AI is good and I use it to make every assignment: that is indeed bad, school is supposed to be challenging, sure at work you won't have to solve equations by hand or code without using a library or built-in functions, but these are there to show you the fundamentals, the basics, to learnt why you do things, we aren't monkeys, and some people that will go to grad school might need it if they plan to do research, either in academia or in a private R&D lab, uni needs to give you the tools to do everything even if you'll only use 10% of the curriculum. Is it that hard for people to be in the middle? I either hear judgmental classmates looking down on others or the lazy students using AI to calculate 1+1 and write hello world.

En Guard Medeus is a surprise, we've been getting Rally spectrum, hush spectrum and shared spoils+ etc... on other units than Lapis or the Robins, it's not even that game breaking of an effect, but whatever. Also false start, unless we get another Elemine I don't know if we'll ever get it again.

Isolation is also quite rare, unless you inflict it upon yourself. Undefended, Frozen and Feud used to be rare but we've been getting them more and more, exposure is now the basic effect of nukes or support units, but isolation? Fjorm and Mila have it, is quite old so I'm surprised they've been avoiding giving it (wasted opportunity for Canis to inflict it).

Meanwhile IS keeps making unique status effects like Claude has fallen star, deep start and those type of things, or upgrade/sidegrade old ones (bonus doubler --> fringe bonus, charge --> true charge), or make effects that are basically useless and are only needed as requirements to active other effects for an unit's kit (Bonded, Coax, Dark Emblem).

In the past refines used to be more impactful as they could suddenly elevate an old unit (also while gimmicky they represented units more, like Oliver warping near flying beasts with sing to show his love for Herons), right now most are barely sidegrades to inheritable weapons like teapot/serving knife for support or arcane for combat focused units.

Saleh getting Sleep Style and Young Eirika with her Mythic Lyn like "Range:2" bonus to allies are actually crazy. Young Eirika is a duo premium unit but Saleh is a ghb and honestly that's really cool (he doesn't have the self refresh like Legendary Elise or Fallen Sarah/Canis but he can be a good support unit), baby Tana beacon warp was great, young L'Arachel was quite serviceable as well, Rennac got the Marianne treatment with Canto Sing/Dance but unlike her he has Disarm Skills thanks to being a thief so he has that niche for him, Astrid is a good Emblem Byleth user now, Freyr got enough to be viable (just his cleansing effect was enough to justify him so just giving stats and damage reduction to allies plus some bonuses is great), even Fjorm which I considered disappointing for "+15 stats, true damage and true damage reduction" effects thrown there without much else was a surprise (turns out having Corrin Ring in your weapon is good cause it opens new emblem ring options for you).

I still preferred the times where Rowan got Reverse Sandstorm (or how I like to call Icestorm) refine, or pirate Tibarn getting Frozen at the time which was cool, even Sonya having essence drain as a cheap Nergal option was fun too, but I'll take what I can get (still hate IS for giving most of my favourite units lukewarm refines though, doesn't help my favourites are either non popular waifu women or not Three Houses/pretty boy twinks men so I'm stuck with 4 stars demoted, ghb, old tempest trail units and that's it. Like sure let's build Ethlyn and Dagdar, Tatiana and Linus, that will surely defeat the new Edelgard /s).

I like how characters have proficiencies, gives them a specialization (Canon class) and highlights the path they want to take without Emblem investments, it's similar to Three Houses boons/banes/hidden talents but easier to make units reclass to something different without having them train in something they're bad at.

However... Most of the times proficiencies are useless.

• Some weapon types have more options than others. Swords are used for Bow Knight, General, Great Knight, Paladin, Mage Knight, Wolf Knight, Griffin Knight and Wyvern Knight. Lances and Axes share the same additional rank up of sword classes plus having an additional one with Hero. Staves have 3, griffin Knight, Royal Knight and Sage. Arts and Knives are only useful in two cases, High Priest/Enchanter and Wolf Knight/Enchanter. Meanwhile bows and tomes are only useful for warrior and high priest respectively. I don't think each weapon type should be balanced in numbers, make sense melee weapons have more options due to how the class system was designed, however only one option kinda makes them useless, I also think we have too little options for non royal arts, tome and knife classes.
• You get no benefit for a lot of classes. Having a boon in bows is only useful for warrior, for bow knight, sniper or the exclusive royal bow classes you get no benefit. I don't mind your proficiency having no effect for some classes, bow knight already has the option for the secondary weapons, and Engage wanted to avoid giving two weapon classes (beside staff classes as they're not weapons and Wolf knight to justify the existence of knife proficiency) the possibility of using S rank weapons, and I get it, wanted to distinguish specialists from generalists like Fates did. But for sniper they could have made something like "if unit has proficiency in it, grants bonus to avoid/crit/hit whatever", something small that wouldn't be game changing but would be a nice detail.
• Only Panette has a proficiency in a weapon she can't use in her canonical class. I feel like they had the opportunity to explore with units having hidden proficiencies in multiple weapons (3 or 4 to make reclassing easier or as a way to highlight a character's past or past profession in case they change). Awekening did something similar with class sets, Cherche was training as a cleric before she got a wyvern and said "fuck that" and she has an healing class as a reclass option despite being a physical unit, meanwhile Panette has a proficiency in knife for wolf knight axe reclassing while staring as a berserker (although why knives? I get only Merrine, Zelkov and Yunaka had knives while you have 3 healers, a dancer and Alear with fists available but Panette used to brawl according to her supports). Diamant could have had a proficiency in bows since apparently he wins the archery content against his younger brother Alcryst, an archer with S rank in bows, but whatever.
• As a solution I think they should have given base classes D or C caps for weapons so at least proficiencies could help there to bump it at B, even if every swordmaster will get S swords later on, for the base version Lapis would have a niche for B swords as a sword fighter.

Let's start with the lords. Thanks to seasonal and what if alts we got a good amount of variety fortunately, however not for everyone.

Micaiah, Celica, both Corrins and Byleths are missing staves options, for Micaiah it's quite obvious, she can reach SS rank staves but we didn't get Matrona or Ashera's Staff, for Celica... Well, she has access in both her own games and Engage to recover. Hoshido Noble Corrin can use rods, same thing with Byleth having a budding talent in it (especially since we'll never get brawling with fists unless you're Alear due to the lack of gauntlets and arts), Byleth in three hopes also can teach some light and healing magic (nosferatu, aura if mastered, heal and recover)

For Male Corrin we're missing tomes but the female avatar, Female Robin has the opposite problem, lacking swords while the male variant has with the brave version. Also both Shez with tomes (and potentially staves? as their exclusive class can use magic and they can teach physics and heal and Nosferatu), their spell list includes dark magic and blizzard (the opposite of Byleth fire and light focus, cool detail).

Kris is weird as you can choose their background and class and their game allows almost free reclassing with just some restrictions due to gender, but that can be said for every avatar and I don't know if we'll get alts for them, shame they seem cool.

Now for non lords but important characters/characters that have a good amount of alts (talking around more than 5 alts).

Camilla has a good variety of weapons, only missing lances from her class sets for wyvern lord, but she's missing in movement (she can be infantry as a sorcerer and horse mounted for dark knight, and yes I'm counting heart seals cause if Chrom and Lucina get alta based on their cavalier and archer talent I think it's fair game). Next one is Azura and she's missing in bows and staves (I used to think it would be hard in theory to make her a singing healer but right now it's really easy, just give her a prf staff with sing/dance canto) to reference her sky Knight talent, she already rides a pegasus and a kinshy so she's only missing a yumi or a festal.

Tharja is missing lances, axes, swords and bows (for her knight and archer class set, she's also got an archer daughter so having one bow alt could have been cool for a seasonal or rearmed/attuned but whatever). At least she has at least an armor mage and cavarly mage so all her movement options are referenced. Lilina is missing staves for sage, Xander is missing tomes for malig knight and a flier alt, but honestly those don't piss me that much. Ryoma Is missing axes/clubs +there's literally one weapon that is a club with Ryoma's name, just like Takumi has a training kunai sword that has mercy for training, they could reference it more), Takumi strangely is only missing lances and staves (thanks Valentine for tomes for basata) but I get it, it's cool, he's primarily an archer.

But fucking Leo? He starts as a dark knight, he has a sword called Leo's Icebrand, why don't we have a sword Leo alt? I don't care about healing magic for strategist/butler (even if considering how much Leo is popular among the female fanbase he would have been a good pick for the teatime banner) but give him swords God damnit. Same deal with Soren, it rubs me the wrong way how they aren't getting creative, he's a branded black dragon and while he can't trasform he could get a what if banner to justify that bullshit (or get in fe shadow as a reptilian), but what he could have got was staves or, you know, knives? Sure he's got a 5% growth in path of radiance but in radiant dawn he has 25% and he caps strength easily (and he's barely a few points from Sothe), and if Nino, a loli, can get a knife alt for Jaffar and have higher than 40 attack, he can, it's gacha I don't quesiti how swimsuit ladies have higher defence than most armored dudes.

At least Eirika is creative, sure she's always referencing someone else like Ephraim or Ephraim or Leon or appearing in alts with both guys and even talks about her brother in her Emblem and Duo Micaiah variants (shut up girl, you could have referenced your dad or Seth for your axe attuned alt or brave Lance one), but at least she's getting a lot of cool things, actually sacred stones is really creative, Joshua with bows and daggers as a trade-off for swords for the assassin one, Tana getting daggers and tomes just because, Leon having a sword alt for summer (he canonically loses to Eirika during sparring so maybe she gave him some tips), I want more of that for the other units, meanwhile we're probably getting another Micaiah with tomes cause they can't seem to do anything more with her (in the rare instance she gets in shadow since she's an heron branded she could be a galdr singing flying beast possibly, I don't know).

Ike is still a nepo baby don't take me wrong, he acknowledged it himself as Shinon wasn't too happy the "dumb pup" was chosen for the role after Greill died, technically speaking he had little experience as Titania would have been a better choice to lead, but Ike is also surprisingly competent despite his initial naivete.

He has some classic "power fantasy" moments, he literally gets the Ragnell, a sword that is able to kill the final boss due to its special blessing that makes him able to pierce the armor normally immune to common attacks, but you also have Ena/Nasir (depending on the black knight being defeated or not) and one of the royal laguz being Naesala, Tibarn, or the less royal but more than broken Gifca (depending on difficulty and if you decide to call them at all) that can do the same, he's not "needed". In addition, unlike Marth, a prince being entrusted with the falchion, Roy, a noble with the sword of the seals, Eirika and Ephraim, children of a kind having sacred weapons attached to their bracelets, Alm and Celica being chosen ones and Sigurd and Seliph having holy blood, Ike is not a royal, actually he's just there, it could have been someone else in his place... At the end of the day a commoner and a mercenary (okay he becomes a noble momentarily), and yes his dad was one of the four riders of Daein but still, just some commoner with no special powers, also Ragnell was a gift from Sanaki and not tied to blood or anything (if it was Micaiah should have been able to use it as she's a descent from Altena), he earns that privilege to slay Ashnard.

Which brings me to Radiant Dawn issue. Why is Ike the only one able to slay Ashera? He gets powered up by Micaiah/Yune, but... It's not like his sword is special (we also get Alondite and Yune should be able to bless other heroes, she literally does so by blessing your inventory to make you able to pierce the goddess blessings that enemies get in the tower). Ike had reached the conclusion to his story, I like his appearance (as a woman enjoyer I have no shame saying he got hot in RD and I'd bend over for him /s), he's cool, collected, has good emotional intelligence, he's sassy, and isn't as moronic as Ephraim and Hector (he doesn't want to fight and prefers to avoid confrontations, like against Micaiah he wants to avoid bloodshed, even in fe9 he tries talking to bosses asking them to flee, he has dialogues with Micaiah asking her to stop this madness and make him understand why she's fighting, with Pelleas he says he should run cause he's not fit for the battlefield, he gives everyone a chance to stop he's not jumping down people's throats, he doesn't want to kill), he hugs Soren when he starts crying and smiles at him telling him it's okay to not put defences, he's genuinely a nice lovable person, it's hard to hate the dude, also he's hot did I say that already?

But radiant dawn wasn't supposed to be his story, it was Micaiah's one, it also fleshes other units like Sanaki, Elincia, and even the less important ones get some screetime, but Ike suddenly becomes the leader after Micaiah is relegated to being a puppet for the child goddess of chaos. I don't get their decision, I think Ike should have had less importance in the plot after the armies merged, as an enemy he worked, even as a temporary playable unit it was cool (I liked the gimmick of fighting between two armies changing point of view), but he should have been left to some base conversations after a while (with some missions and dialogues during the main plot), I don't have issues with him being in the tower, I have issues with him being the only way to save the world.

Then again I still enjoy radiant dawn despite the overcomplicating storytelling, the bad gameplay balance (basically it's not worth training half of your units as you get handed prepromotes that can steamroll the first acts, then you get royal laguz and Ike ready to go and can use BEXP to save other units, besides Jill and some other scrub you don't have much incentives to train your characters), it also tried to give the spotlight to too many units (seriously I don't mind Nephenee and Brom map, or Geoffrey's charge, or Lucia investigating and getting captured, but with Elincia and Tibarn trying to be lords as well as Ike and Micaiah being the two protagonists it gets messy fast). Anyways, just wanted to yap about Tellius cause FE9 and FE10 are one of my favorites despite not even being my first which is weird (I love sacred stones but I'm not as attached to it, meanwhile for other titles like Pokemon or final fantasy I find myself having nostalgia for the first titles even if they're objectively the worst, I guess I just like Tellius mature plot and good ideas and parallels to racism between laguz, beorcs and branded, aka mixed children, and acceptance of diversity).

There have been plenty of videos and posts about gender differences in fire emblem (class locked to male or female units, weapons like hairpin or Arthur's axe in Fates and skills like the maid/butler one or guardian or unmasked that either buffs allies or affect enemies). But I wanted to look at the same classes and how they used to be slightly different and how they removed those differences in newer titles.

Archanea (when reclassing is allowed so the DS era):

Female knights have higher base weapon levels (weapon level was similar to weapon rank in other titles, however instead of growing based on usage of a certain weapons in battle like leveling swords or axes separately, in Archanea it's a growth in level ups where your characters have a %chance to increase it).

Male and Female mages have different bases, women have more skill, more res, more weapon level, but guys have more defense and start with 10 more base exp instead so closer to leveling up I guess?. Male and Female Bishops have even more differences, dudes have more HP and base exp, the ladies are better on everything else (skill, speed, resistance and weapon level). Merric gets different bishops stats according to Serene Forest (didn't know, I could be wrong) so I'll mention it briefly, he has more weapon level than the guys, less than the girls, share with female bishop the same exp, speed and Res, but has the same HP as the guys, better everything else. Interestingly male and female bishops (and Merric) also have different growths for their class unlike others, guys have more HP and Res, girls and Merric (he has the same growths as the female bishops) have more strength, speed, and defence. Finally they have different promotion gains, male and female mages share some of those (Str, Res, Skill), but not all (F get more Def and +2 than guys). Clerics have different gains as they start from a different class but can become female bishops (same speed and strength from female mages, but get an additional+1 mov and more skill instead of 1 but less res). Merric is better than all of them having higher gains in all stats besides weapon level and movement. The differences are smalls (like 1 or 2 points or 10-20% growth) but hey they exist.

Bantu and Tiki are technically both manakete but they work differently (she can use other dragon stones and transform into an ice or mage dragon thanks to being a divine dragon, he's stuck as a fire dragon), so I won't discuss each class, just the base they share and the fire dragon. At base Tiki has slightly more skill and speed but 9 more res. The fire dragon has the same base stats for both, however they get different bonuses, Tiki has -3 speed and -11 res, Bantu -2 Speed and actually gains +4 Res. Male manakete actually have class growths while female ones don't but I suspect that's because Tiki cannot reclass and enemy dragons are all males so she only has base growths but in the end it doesn't matter.

Geneology and Thracia (I'm combining them cause they have the same classes, although they have differences such as magic combined with res in Thracia):

In FE4 the canon Male and female mages mostly have different promotions (guys to mage knight and the girls to F mage fighters) but Amid didn't get the memo, the substitute wind mage becomes an M mage fighter instead. M Mages fighters are more physically oriented, they have more HP, strength, skill and defence, but less Speed and Res, they have the same magic and movement. As for the promoted forms, Mage Knights compared to both Mage fighters have 10/14 more HP than both, same strength of male mage fighters, less magic, speed and skill than both, and share the same defence and resistance than M Mage fighters, but have more movement (9 vs 6). They also have different promotion gains, mage knights have the highest HP gain and more mov but barely anything else (like+1 or 2 or 3), the other mage fighters get different promotions based on what mage they started as (mage, thunder mage or wind mage), with Amid having more defence and skill but less speed and res than the ladies. We also see the first case of different caps, mage knights have the lowest (makes sense as they're mounted), male mage fighters have 2 more str and def and more skill but less magic, res and speed. Ignoring holy blood, Mage Knights have B rank in swords while both mage fighters have C, the women also get B in staves (Geneology had a weird gimmick of giving most female units rods, Kaga liked healers I guess), all have same tome rank.

Troubadors and Cavaliers are technically different classes but they share a promotion in paladin (yes, shockingly while in GBA games, fates and three houses Valkyries/Strategists and their base class are magical, but in Kaga games and Tellius they're sword wielding healers, and in FE4 and FE5 they're actually more physical than magical). Cavaliers have more HP, Str and Def, and the girls have 3 magic and resistance to compensate (and this difference remains in their caps as well). Their promotions are flipped though, guys get +5 magic and res and 2 in physical stats, girls 3 in magical stats and 6 in str and def, also they share the same caps (24 str, 20 magic), cavaliers and troubadors have the same sword rank, cavaliers have C lances while troubadors C in staves, the paladins share the same sword rank as well, male paladins get B in lances, girls C (but maintain their C staff rank, they kinda feel like engage royal knight despite being depicted as frail healers in FEH).

Prince and Princesses have a similar gimmick, Lachesis has more magic and Lief gains more upon promotion to compensate his worse bases and growths, also Princess starts with C staves while Prince is sword locked, they have the same caps and weapon ranks as master knights though.

Bards and Shamans both promote to sages, bards get more res and magic while Deirdre and Julia more speed (I guess to balance the fact bards are faster at base but less magical).

Thracia introduced a difference in stats for basically every class, swordfighters, swordmasters, snipers, for most classes the differences are consistent (guys have more strength, defence, build and sometimes HP, girls are faster, more accurate and have more magic sometimes), there are expections (female mercenary bases are better in physical stats than male mercenary), male archer has 7 mov instead of 6 but doesn't gain it upon promotion (Rowan is weird with his magic too so whatever), ignoring the whole dismount different weapon systems, male paladins keep the sword/lance combo while female paladins lose lances but retain staves (meanwhile falcon lost staves from Geneology to Thracia, guess they wanted to keep Nanna an healer). We finally have axe wielding girls and female mage knights though. Unlike other games (cough cough Tellius giving girls more strength) they don't have opposite promotion gains to balance their differences, and male and female paladins have different promotion gains as the troubadors get more magic this time.

Lara is a special case as she can go both female thief fighter or dancer, but that's more her own class so I won't count it. The female thief fighter isn't anything special besides less strength and build.

GBA era (will combine them all):

This time girls not only have different promo and bases, but different caps as well for most if not all classes, with them being faster and having more res and power (if magical) but less def and strength (is physical). There's also the infamous build difference for rescue, I think it was supposed to compensate for the pegasus girlies having low con so if they had 25 con they could carry every unit, but this also affects female wyverns and paladins unfortunately as they have less aid (sure girls have on average a lot less con but there are expections like Vaida). Eirika and Ephraim classes have the same name upon promotion as well but they are different classes using sword for Eirika and Lances for Ephraim (and in that case Ephraim actually gets more Speed but Eirika still keep an higher cap). As for weapons the only difference is for classes like Neimi getting swords and Gerick bows as rangers (so less about gender difference and more because one is an archer and the other a mercenary), and Bishop and Monk having different promos as male bishops (and that's also not due to gender but because of different base weapon).

Tellius:

Tellius does a similar thing. In path of radiance the promo and caps for male and female units are basically the same (I guess Astrid gets different ones but she starts as a ranged cavalier so I guess it makes sense for balancing reasons), in Radiant Dawn there are more differences (male units have higher str and def, female higher res, and this tend to matter quite a bit as even 2 points of speed can make units double or not), girls also get more stats overall when promoting (female units get the same magic, skill, speed and res than their male counterparts but more strength and defence).

Fates:

Great Masters and Priestesses have different growths and weapons (either b yumi/bows or lances/naginatas). Priestesses are more magically oriented and are ranged fighters, great Masters are quite competent physical units with comparable stats to spear fighters and get more Def making them frontline healers.

Shadow of Valentia:

Male and Female mages have different bases and growths (guys have more HP and girls more def in growths, bases make men tankier and girls speedier and have more res), girls promote later and gain swords as Priestesses, otherwise both have white and black magic. As spells change depending on units, the only difference between guys and girls is the overclass as Lemegeton for Gurus and Mire and Death for Endhantresses. There's also male and female villager having different class promotiknsy, sharing cavalier and mage, girls get pegasus and cleric, guys knight, archer and mercenary (which can return to villager with the dread fighter loop).

In my campus most majors have "nerdy geeky students (and asians)" but they're not the majority, far from it (and this comes from an autistic engineer major that likes trains, most of my classmates talk about boobs, clubbing or football instead of memorizing 100 digits of π, those weirdos /s). In my friend group, not necessarily the same major, I know a gym guy from civil that lifts at the gym and has a good amount of muscles so the opposite of a gamer that hasn't touched grass in months, a buddy that likes to play music, has a small tattoo on his wrist, long hairs, so not bald yet, and pierced eyebrow (but he's in industrial, aka, imaginary engineering, so he doesn't count /s) and a tinkering frat bro, well he talks like one, in mech with me that loves messing around with his car and struggles a bit with math but managed to pass calculus 3 in the end, meanwhile I don't really care about cars but I'm good with math and I hate getting my hands greasy so hey we balance each other's out.

Some clearly love engineering with all their hearts, but others kinda don't and mostly picked it as a safer career path compared to, I don't know, an humanities degree. As I already mentioned I'm in mechanical but I've taken one elective class in biomedical (as the professor reviews seemed good and I needed a break from my main classes), and I overheard a girl talking to someone that apparently is doing bioengineering as a pre-med path. Online there was a redditor that graduated in chemical engineering and got in law school, dreams can change. The opposite is also true, I bet someone did a master in engineering from a non engineering undergrad, like, I don't know, physics to nuke, chemistry to material science, but they may be from non STEM degrees if they take the prerequisites, education isn't necessary linear.

In the cafeteria there's a few Muslims that have special menus without meat and during Ramadan they have the option to take their meals packed to consume it later, I got tutored in linear algebra by a senior student from environmental engineering that was flamboyant and openly gay, religion and political views can be entirely different, even if engineers on average tend to be less progressive doesn't mean it applies to everyone. And despite the funny meme about the lack of female population in engineering or how the few ones there are either butch lesbians or men with long hair, I've seen gorgeous and feminine women succeeding in college majoring in engineering, I kinda envy them, with their pretty handwriting and pink notebooks full of glittery pens, meanwhile I write like a spastic chicken and often have to search my bag to find a pencil but hey what can you do about it.

Regardless if you're a stereotypical engineering student or an atypical one, that's okay, I accept you as you are (as long as you shower, unfortunately that's a stereotype that I found somewhat true, please, for the stinkier ones, take care of your hygiene, I understand conditions that cause sweating or other medical issues and complications, but some really need to wash their hair as they have so much oil on their head I could use it as dressing for my salad /s).