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I am interested in UAH since its local but lately I've noticed something strange about UAH EE graduates - they tend to perform at a much lower bar compared to engineering graduates from other schools. For example, we've had fresh grads and student interns from Auburn and the difference between Auburn and UAH is night and day. Auburn students are on average, much smarter and can pick up skills faster. For a summer internship project, Auburn students outperformed all UAH interns. My manager has noticed this and is trying to outsource Auburn talent. We've also had students from UAB and UA and they were good as well, but Auburn students just stood out more for their creativity and problem solving. We gave 4 Auburn students a firmware project and all of them independently solved the problem by weeks 4-6. The way they defined the problem and their entire approach was very methodical, so I was impressed. I did my undergrad at UGA and the closest comparison to Auburn would be Georgia Tech.

I know its a local school but wondering career wise if I should be thinking about them?

I'm enrolling in the school remotely for the fall (DEN program, MSEE) and couldn't find any relevant PCB design courses offered at USC. At my previous undergrad, we had classes that covered the cutting edge in the industry like signal integrity/power integrity of circuits and we used Altium extensively. There was a class offered on my campus called "PCB for Design Manufacturing" and it was a junior-level class where we designed 4 board projects and tested them. The follow-up class was Signal Integrity. In my senior design capstone course, every single group did a year long project designing either a 4 or 6-layer board and we spent many months perfecting the circuit card for various companies that offered sponsorship. A lot of involved integrating a COTS part like an FPGA and learning about embedded programming. Amazingly when I got the industry these were the same exact skills they were asking for.

I thought USC's engineering was more centered on start-up culture and responding to industry needs, but looking at the catalog, I just see some standard EE courses. They do offer some circuits-level VLSI/CAD which is interesting.

Is there any PCB design course here or Signal Integrity? I just couldn't find what I was looking for in the course catalog.

I've been tutoring at VarsityTutors and its been alright, they only pay 18/hr and its usually for subjects like AP Cal AB/BC and AP Precal. Now that summer is starting, I've lost my side hustle of $300-500 per month.

My current job doesn't pay me enough to live in this city. I live in an apartment that is 2.4k per month and that's considered cheap but it eats away over two-thirds of my monthly earnings. Its very hard to find an apartment lower than that unless you qualify for low income.

Not sure where to go from here. I work in tech but don't make enough for living expenses.

I'm trying to get non-biased answers and wanted to see what locals thought. I did my BA from Argosy University which was for profit and closed down in 2019 and this was the only MBA program accepted my application (Liberty is also accreditted by ACBSP so that was a relief). I had a 2.9 as an undergrad and was working full time at various restaurants while dealing with at home problems. Argosy did 8 week classes but it lost accreditation.

I couldn't find any good reviews of Liberty's MBA specifically and am debating about coming over to campus. I would like info about the program, recruiting events and other info. From what I've seen posted online, MBA students complain of being accused of using AI by professors and a few people complain that the school does nothing for their careers. The online ranked #237 in the country out of 364 by US News and World.

I am sure there are people here who have made this international jump. Students in high school take AP Cal b/c its the most rigorous. This is where most of my clients are coming from.

But I wonder how different can that be with the UK-equivalent of A-Levels? Obviously its not just the math, I have to coach people on AP-styled reasoning. For example, suppose you're a step in showing the interval of convergence for a series using lim n-> inf |a_(n+1)/a_n| < 1 and you reached to x^2 lim n->inf ((2n^2 + 1)/(n^2 + 3)) < 1. Examiners want the students to explain what they did (i.e. L'Hopital's rule vs dividing top and bottom by n^2).

I imagine its probably more or less the same, start with some beginner problem like

∑ (2^n / (e^(n+1)) (n=1 to inf) = (1/e) ∑ (2/e)^n and r = |2/e| < 1 so this converges

And then get the total sum Sn = k*a/(1 - r) = (1/e)(2/e)/(1 - 2/e). This segway into discussing various convergence tests like alternating series test, p-test and limit comparison test.

Imagine if tutors can cross international lines since the topics are still the same. That would generate more side income but it seems like the US and UK tutors are confined to separate tutoring platforms with no crossover in customers. Best of all, we share the same language !

My clients have all stated that they don't need tutoring for the summer and I've lost a few students. People taking AP Cal BC have dropped me. I have one more $18 session next week and that's a wrap.

Trying to see if there is a decent side gig I can do online for $300-$500 per month. Any ideas? With school out, us tutors are out of business.

From Jan - May I made $2,148.71 through Varsity and have paid IRS $400. This week I'm getting $399 and will be depositing $450 to the IRS, but I want to make sure if the estimated taxes are correct.

I didn't realize that tutoring is taxed very high in the US and its actually discouraging. I am trying to factor in internet costs, space costs, buying materials (test prep books and pen pad). When I looked up online, it seems like I should be paying 36% in federal + self taxes. I have still not paid my state taxes. Combining my state taxes, the total amount in taxes I would be paying is over 40%.

I've only started this whole tutoring since January and now I want to quit but only after I paid back all the taxes. VarsityTutors doesn't deduct taxes for you so I've started paying directly to the IRS.

Running the numbers I've made a little about $2,793 and most of it literally came from last month all of the AP exam prep that clients were asking for. I've paid the IRS only $400 so far but the total amount that I owe to the IRS is $965 so I need to come up with $565.

The month of May seems kind of crazy at Varsity. I've been getting multiple requests for 2-hour block sessions and I'm kind of out of breath. What started as a hobby now got intense.

Just wondering how other tutors deal with the tax adjustments stress. I will essentially fork over 30% of my earnings just for taxes. I have given a lot of thought over quitting, because this is mentally taxing. I don't get paid for prepping. Then there's the step-by-step derivations, conceptual explanations and AP-styled reasoning, that's definitely going to mentally fatigue most people. That $18/hr seems like a burden now and after tax, we're talking $12-14/hr and all that to give a $90 lesson.

My son is interested in applying here but wanted to know if the admissions is relatively straightforward and based on grades.

I looked at the profile of admitted and they're pretty impressive and lines up well with CU Boulder's engineering cohort. But I was wondering if Mines is considered more fair than CU in this regard. The school counsellor said that last year the admit rate for Boulder freshmen engineering dropped to 60% and the admitted profile is 3.97 - 4.42 (weighted) while Mines is 3.83 - 4.00 (unweighted). She did state that Boulder's engineering school looks at the SAT math (>700) even though they are test optional.

He has a 4.1 weighted and is active in sports and will be taking the AP exams next week. Just wondering how that performance on AP Calculus AB will be seen by admissions folks.

I've been tutoring 4 students over at VarsityTutors in AP Calculus BC for the past four months and I've been a paid a flat $18/hr. My only client where this changes is an AB student but she has an incentives package so its $40/hr.

For context, I had a 5 in AP Calculus AB exam years ago and have started tutoring to help people but the longer I've done it, the more I realize that the pay doesn't match the effort. The weird part is that the parents are paying $85-$95 per session but the tutor is getting $18.

One of my client has a parent who messages me a lot about their kid's BC performance. She emphasizes that her son is applying to selective colleges next year and she wants a strong score like a 4 or 5. I don't think this parent realizes that I'm being paid $18/hr and I also don't like the pressure she's putting on me for those exam results.

I'll be an online student but curious to know if the Viterbi name carries any weight for industries out in the West Coast. In the state I currently live in, they don't see what the big deal is but if you mention Georgia Tech, Virginia Tech, North Carolina State, Clemson, the University of South Carolina (UofSC), these are all massively well known for engineering.

Anyway, the question is about masters vs experience. Even in my current job, they won't give someone an interview because they went to a well known school in the area. They want to see past projects in their previous company and the real prestige is company name. In California, I can see possibly USC's reputation being enough to compensate for a lack of specialized experience. Wondering if anyone can say from experience that this is true?

My clients that I'm tutoring are taking these high stakes exams in AP Calculus AB and BC. They've invested thousands into the VarsityTutors and I'm unsure about their actual performance.

One student will be taking the AB exam. She still struggles with the FRQ format. Her grasp on solving the problems independently from instruction is shaky. I've taught her all of the concepts from derivatives, integrals, Reimann sums and elementary differential equations (separation of variables) and applications (related rates, volumes of revolution using the disc method). She still forgets about trig and inverse trig, and I'm worried. Today I asked her to solve for Integral (e^(tan(x))/cos^2(x)) dx and she couldn't see that sec^2(x) = 1/cos^2(x). She fumbled a little bit but finally realized that u = tan(x) and du = sec^2(x) dx. She has a solid B+ in the class and has been getting high 80s and 90s (predicted exam performance).

My other student is taking the BC exam. She is in worse shape than the AB student. This client struggles with elementary derivative methods like the chain rule. Her father has no idea that his daughter is completely lost, yet he has this unrealistic expectation that the tutoring should get her a passing 3. This is impossible given that she can't even answer a single FRQ without significant help. She is also forgetful so I'm not exactly sure if the tutoring is helping. She has a 54% but that is actually a C at her high school.

My only student that I have confidence in has been working independently. He understands Taylor/McLaurin series and asks me for math methods in dealing with polar coordinates. I know his parents wouldn't blame me because it looks like he'll get at least a 3.

I'm doing VarsityTutors and I don't like the platform at all. They give you a 1099-NEC and you have to file for taxes to IRS quarterly through 1040-ES. If you don't come tax returns you pay what you owe + penalties.

I've been making roughly about $400 per month (gross without taxes) and this month it came to $700 (gross, had to pay the IRS $250). I don't like the fact that its just 18/hr and you put in a lot of effort for the presentation.

Currently tutoring in AP Calculus AB, BC, AP Precal and Precal Honors. Looking for an alternative website with easy entry and fair wages and no 1099-NEC. I have a B.S. in an engineering field, currently doing an M.S. in another engineering field from a T30 university.

I've never been to the USC campus but I have heard a lot about their reputation in STEM. I live in another part of the US that has never heard of this school and even my manager is asking why I didn't pursue a well known online program like Purdue, Georgia Tech and Columbia. USC is barely recognizable and in the context of elite engineering, its not the first school that anyone thinks of. This sounds like a contradiction as the school overall and engineering program is top 30 but most people living in other states don't have that same view.

But if I wanted to go back to California, I can see the jobs networking being an advantage. Wanted to ask alumni in different states if there was any difference in jobs employment or was it mainly just your job experience that helped you?