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I'm currently doing Varsity but I don't have a better option. Wyzant approved my account but I've noticed its very bleak. Compared to Varsity I already have 7 AP Calculus AB/BC clients and 2 electrical engineering students. The pay is still 18/hr. There are also about 15-42 job opportunities posted there whereas at Wyzant its exactly 0.

How long do people have to wait? My rate on Wyzant is very reasonable at 40/hr.

I'm a transplant to Huntsville and moved in with my family. My son is thinking of college but I've been very unsure about sending him to UAH. The costs for one would be affordable. I'm just not impressed with their curriculum judging from my experience working with UAH grads in my field.

Is the ROI worth it? I've heard UAH has good job placements in the area and I'll overlook some of their recent graduates if it has a good reputation in the area. If he were to travel down to Auburn I would need to pay for room and board.

As an alum, I was a little surprised by the shift. The school went from No. 97 when I attended to No. 109. I know not to put any stock value into these rankings as the education and experience is priceless, but it does put a damp on my school pride. For whatever reason, the undergraduate engineering climbed up to No. 26 and so did the business school. The university's strength are their special programs that seemingly acts like their own separate colleges.

Anyone working outside of Colorado see this as a bad slide? I know from my experience I have to work twice as hard to prove myself in the tech industry where my coworkers are from Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech and several other more well known flagships in the region. Usually when I join a new team, they typically ask about the school as an ice breaker.

I got my first electrical engineering student to tutor at Varsity and I just can't believe how slow he processes everything. The first lesson was about the color scheme for resistors and going over basic fundamentals like Coulomb's Law. The second lesson was very slow. He kept getting jumbled up with basic power formulas such as P = I*V = V^2 /R.

We had a basic circuit with two resistors in series and I asked him to find the total current I_t and the current going through each resistor. After struggling for so long, I just gave up and offered him all the answers. Then he had another problem that was very similar, and he just data dumped everything.

I saw his notes that he had a learning disability. I am not sure how this is compatible with his 1st year college engineering coursework. We only got to 2 problems and that took up 72 minutes. He had 8 more problems. He is taking the class at a community college, but he hopes to transfer to a good public university.

I already work full time but then took up VarsityTutors as a job. Right now I'm making around $36-46 per week before taxes. Today I tutored two different clients for a grand total of $28. I am not sure if my motivation can go up because this doesn't even cover one-quarter of the cost of groceries. But I know that if I work for a full month I can cover my phone bill and trash services.

I was wondering how other people do it. Tutoring generally doesn't yield a lot of money but its enjoyable. I am thinking about doing FedEx part time to supplement this income. Right now I'm at the university doing a master's.

USC ranked #4 in the elite list, costing over 103k per year. Several elite universities made it to the list but no Ivy League in the top 15. Does more expensive mean = more valuable, elite, prestige to the public?

I was able to get 2 students so far and that means I'll make $36 gross per week for the weekly sessions. I'm trying to get more students because I want to cover living expenses - how long do I need to wait?

I was wondering if anyone claimed to be a teacher to receive some deductions. Currently, I have paid roughly 40% in taxes back since I receive a 1099 from VarsityTutors but I only made ~2.3k gross and this was over a period of 7 months. I paid $872 for the 1040 so far.

I do have to pay for test prep booklets and a tablet so just wondering if I can claim to be a teacher since I bought these resources.

My son will be applying to Mines, Boulder and CSU Fort Collins. We are having difficulty in trying to decide which would be the better fit for him and job opportunities.

When we looked at Boulder's engineering freshmen profile, its very much on the high end. Their incoming class had a GPA of 3.96-4.44 weighed and SATs were 1370-1500. For Colorado School of Mines, their average is 3.84 unweighted and 1372 is their average.

A couple of questions comes up to us. Does sending no test scores hurt the Mines application? Boulder engineering seems very selective so we obviously think that it would be beneficial for him to take the test. A lot of parents last year complained that their kid couldn't get into Boulder's engineering program. The school counselor even explained to me that Boulder is test-heavy and she's seen students with a 700s on SAT math get accepted while those who did test optional or fell short were denied.

I can also see that Boulder's engineering placement in big companies is impressive. They have the largest alumni in Lockheed, Boeing, RTX, Northrop, Amazon and Microsoft in the state. Was wondering if that is just because they're a much larger state university ? Mines' strength is in energy engineering and construction industries. They do send grads in big companies but they come in much smaller sizes.

I'm trying to budget after seeing my grocery bills go way up. I live in NYC so I went to Trader Joes and got 3 bags of groceries for $127. I don't know how anyone can make enough in this city, its just so bizarre that with an 87k salary I can only afford a rent controlled apartment. After taxes and standard deductions, I take home 4.6k per month. I would say its a fairly decent apartment, its 450 sq foot and I pay 2.3k per month (including fees + utilities) but its hard to find anything cheaper closer to work.

I was looking at another Manhattan apartment but it was 170 sq foot and there is no attached bath. You have to walk downstairs and key into your private bath. Their rent is 1.7k and its the cheapest in the entire area for lease.

On my last credit card statement I had to pay over $1,200 and all of it was food, gas, eating out and groceries. I know it sounds crazy but now I realize my spending is out of control. All of this was in a period of 2 weeks.

I've cut back on eating out since most places charge $40-$60 for an entree. The delis are also not reasonable with asking $32-$40 for a sandwich and drink.

I'm attending a university where its very hard to get ahold of anyone in the certification office. I've emailed them twice and they responded back once saying they will submit the paperwork but nothing has happened. I've submitted them paperwork well over a month ago to process my benefits.

Their phone doesn't get answered and they don't have a voicemail. They have only a 2 hour Zoom walk in but I've been successful in talking to someone once since the wait times is over 40 minutes and the last time they didn't even have time.

I'm getting worried b/c the VA hasn't received paperwork. They gave me direct contact number for a certifying specialist but I got not message back. The school is the University of Southern California and I'm going there for grad school, previously I went to University of Colorado Boulder and had zero problems. They were always quick on paperwork.

I've visited some places like Big Daddy's Burgers and the bill came out to over $65 for a family of 3. We used to go out to In N Out Burgers but there isn't any here. We used to dine out in another (more expensive) state and the bill was normally less than $30 (which includes milk shakes). Was wondering if anyone had a good suggestion? Huntsville's costs is operating like a big city in the West Coast.

I am interested in moving to VA but I have questions about the cost of living and just the whole layout of the state. I used intern at some NOVA city (near Blacksburg) and it was nice. They even offered me a full time position, but because I wanted to stay closer to Colorado, I took the lower paying engineering job.

Now I'm in Alabama and I don't like the weather (its very humid and the sun is always blinding). I'm also not a big fan of the food. There are a lot of places here that sell fried food and I think the worst case was seeing "fried cheesecake" on the menu.

I was thinking about going back to the same place I interned, but I'm still not sure about the whole commitment. The place exists in my memories as my summer time break from college. I was given truly challenging projects and my mentor was a rockstar. I also met a lot of Virginia Tech students there and they were quite prideful. The other engineering students were from VCU, George Mason, JMU and Liberty.

What's the actual cost of rent these days in cities like Blacksburg and Fredericksburg?

I met someone recently from this school will receive about 30k in grant funding and the rest will come from FAFSA (free funding + low interest loans) and the other 50k will be all private loans. I'm not sure what the appeal is, but this is pretty heft debt to take on. The COA is over 100k per year and he was under the impression that the university was going to give him full funding due to being a low-income independent.

But the ROI for a cinema degree from this school specifically is very low. Their website states 40-48k starting salary before taxes which means effectively they would only get 30k after taxes. At that point, its just better to not go to the school and work at Best Buy. I'm just not sure why someone would do this knowing that it'll ruin their finances for 20 years (can't get a mortgage, higher interest rates on buying a new car, other negatives to put him back).

I met someone at my university who is attending USC School of Cinematic Arts and he explained that the GI Bill will only cover 29k and the Yellow Ribbon is first come first serve. That school only has 3 slots for veterans. Right now he's going to get 20k from FAFSA (free funding + low interest loans) and the rest (50k) he has to cover through private loans. Is this normal?

The typical asking price is 103k per year to attend USC. I don't think their degree in cinema is remotely worth it. He needs it for 3-4 years.

I live in NYC and that's the destination after college but I'm finding it so difficult to pay for a lot of essentials based on 84k salary. I take home about 55k after taxes, insurance and standard deductions. My apartment is 2.4k (non-luxury, older build) and its kind of difficult to move out because rent is so high everywhere.

I interviewed for a job in SF and got it but then when I researched the area, everything seems out of range. Average rent there is 4k. I was looking at a shared apartment complex where people share the same kitchen and bathrooms and its listed at 1.7k, but not sure if this is the kind of living I would want. There is a private bedroom though.

The reason why I like the job in SF is because it combines both my tech and design backgrounds together. But I am not sure with 112k salary if it makes sense for me to go there. For context, SF public school teachers' median salary is 103k.

I make 4.6k per month but my rent is 2.4k (I live in NYC and this is considered cheap). I am constantly afraid of running out of money to cover the bills and groceries. I graduated out of college in 2024 and got my first job but after seeing all those tax deductions, I can barely survive.

I was looking at a 170 square foot apartment for 1.9k but it has a detached bathroom where I would need to walk downstairs to get to. There is nothing cheaper in the city, so I had settle for a 7th-floor apartment that is 450 sq foot but at 2.4k. This is a rent controlled apartment for lower income people.

I pay about 1.5k for food outside including lunch and groceries every month. The rest goes into paying for my clothes, gym membership, utilities and occasional travel expenses to see family.

I'm interested in learning Verilog but I can't really find anything in the course catalog that lists this. There are a lot of groups at my workplace that prioritize experience in Verilog HDL for joining their projects. I don't know why but it seems like people who attended the CSU engineering schools have more experience in this area over the UCs/private schools.

Separate question now. Currently I work 10-11 hours from M-Thurs and I would have time for just 1 class. The class I signed up for is EE536A Analog Integrated Circuits. What is the workload I should be expecting and would it be unreasonable to add another 4 unit class (MOS VLSI Circuit Design)?

I worked with VarsityTutors and made close to 2.3k for the spring semester. Now its summer and I have no customers and I'm trying to find another tutoring platform where its easy to get into and pays decent. About a few months ago I paid the IRS $872 for 1040 taxes.

I work full time as an engineer but its not enough to cover my rent and other expenses. The couple hundred dollars I get do help with groceries and bills. I also don't know if university name has any impact in getting clients. I list that I'm pursuing an engineering master's from USC but it doesn't seem to attract clients.

I have tried other means of making up the difference by starting an Etsy shop selling print-on-demand t-shirts (went nowhere). I'm honestly puzzled how anyone makes a good side hustle using their own brand of service. Varsity at least provided a consistent stream, but I know there are better ways of achieving side income.

I was thinking doing the master's in an engineering field at UAH but I grew hesitant after witnessing the kind of graduates that the school produces. I've been to different states and when we say an engineering school is "good" the locals mean that the university is selective, the curriculum is on par with another public flagship (harder problem sets, more in depth reasoning) and the resources are a given.

The mechanical engineers that UAH produces are fine, but their electrical & computer engineers are lacking. Auburn and University of Alabama Tuscaloosa grads seem better prepared and don't need a lot of coaching. Auburn grads are Georgia Tech caliber. I am not even sure where the high praise for UAH comes from.