u/QuqinDis

I am learning about technical writing and am currently practicing by writing a guide on configuring my Neovim environment. I'm struggling with the introduction. When I ask AI tools, they suggested I write a comparison between Neovim, VS Code, and CLion to argue why Neovim is superior. However, this feels too promotional. In technical writing, is the goal to persuade a general audience to adopt a tool, or is it strictly to instruct an audience that is already interested?

P.S. I really appreciate the warm and thoughtful response you guys have given me 🙏

Like the tittle suggests, I just finished my first year of university in mechanical engineering and things did not go as planned.

My first semester was good (3.6 on a 4.3 scale), but my second semester was completely overwhelming. My GPA drop below 3.0, I failed two lab classes in this one year, and I ultimately withdraw from electromagnetic at my second semester (I hear there are only 5 people who pass this class).

I am looking ahead to my third semester, and I am stressed out because I will be taking 5 classes with the same difficult as electromagnetic. My ultimate goal is to land a high-paying job in the industry right after graduation, and I am worried that my freshman grades have already ruined my chances at getting a good internship.

During this semester break, I am planning to skip taking a vacation so I can stay home and prepare for my upcoming classes.

Has anyone bounced back from similar freshman year to get a great job? What should I be doing during this break to prepare for a heavy STEM course load? Any advice on study habits, or what employers actually care about, would be hugely appreciated.

P.S. I am studying in Taiwan as an international student, so I also need to learn Mandarin on top of my regular course load. On the plus side, I’ve already built a programming project in C (a custom memory allocator), and a professor advised me to adapt it for embedded systems.