u/Typical-Speed-6829

Guys if you were a successful GFSD applicant, may I ask about what your credentials/stats were, what your essays were about things of that nature

Guys if you were a successful GFSD applicant, may I ask about what your credentials/stats were, what your essays were about things of that nature

What made your application successful? How would you recommend someone approach the application process? Templates for research proposals? Etc?

There is so much information about the necessity of clubs, then internship and work experience, and in order to obtain the work experience you need to volunteer, and you need high grades. I am kind of wondering how everyone is able to sort of carve out a path that works for them and fixate on the commitments that are important to them

I struggle to sit for long hours because my back hurts so much. How do you guys remedy this issue?

How can I make myself stand out for this position. I have been calling, how long did any of you hear back and should I go into the store personally and tell them I applied for the position?

I am in my senior year of college and I am in a very embarrassing life situation(I understand I made several mistakes but I can't go back in time). I was always apprehensive about the major and I didn't really do as well as I would have liked in my classes leaving me an uncomfortable feeling the whole time. I was online for half my degree so I felt pretty disengaged and I am pretty much useless. I don't have any work experience, and I don't have a plethora of internships or the highest grades either. I am applying, but I am truly worried about the rest of my life.

I was pursuing the degree online for two years and I wasn't super involved to be honest. I liked the initial coursework but as the degree went on I enjoyed it less and less and some classes had almost traumatized me in ways. I wasn't super involved and then entered junior year(which was in person) with a significantly higher course load and was immensely stressed about my classes 24/7.

I didn't rigorously apply for work experience as I did have a hefty summer course load,and am no rigorously applying for any job to get any form of work experience under my belt. I know I mad a cascade of bad decisions, and experienced a cascade of disappointments. I am working hard in terms of trying to find work experience, work on my classes, increase my GPA, but everyday is plagued with an immense sense of dread on top of the fact that my brain is so scatter-brained with everything I have to do all the time. I am so worried about wasting time that I end up wasting time as a result, and I am terrified for the rest of my life while also not knowing what I really want out of life other than a job anymore.

I was pursuing the degree online for two years and I wasn't super involved to be honest. I liked the initial coursework but as the degree went on I enjoyed it less and less and some classes had almost traumatized me in ways. I wasn't super involved and then entered junior year(which was in person) with a significantly higher course load and was immensely stressed about my classes 24/7.

I didn't rigorously apply for work experience as I did have a hefty summer course load,and am no rigorously applying for any job to get any form of work experience under my belt. I know I mad a cascade of bad decisions, and experienced a cascade of disappointments. I am working hard in terms of trying to find work experience, work on my classes, increase my GPA, but everyday is plagued with an immense sense of dread on top of the fact that my brain is so scatter-brained with everything I have to do all the time. I am so worried about wasting time that I end up wasting time as a result, and I am terrified for the rest of my life while also not knowing what I really want out of life other than a job anymore.

I see a lot of people juggling several internships, research, a part time job, full time coursework and I am just wondering how you guys organize your lives, plan out your days, etc. Once schoolwork kicks into full gear it feels like I am constantly playing catch-up while still not doing as well as I would like.

I am a senior in college now, and I often feel like I was too unintelligent for EE, and I probably should have done something else. My GPA isn't low but it isn't super high and I keep feeling like I should have done something else. Do others feel the same?

I am stressed about my future and I am in no position to be taking my foot off the accelerator, however, I am extremely exhausted and this year has been so exhausting for me my whole body honestly hurts. I know I need to be working harder but my body has no energy for this anymore ngl.

I have worked pretty hard but I have still amounted to nothing and I honestly feel like more and more of a loser every year. I am not super impressive on paper despite working hard. I am not very talented, intelligent, emotionally mature, eloquent, and the list goes on, and I have barely made any progress in terms of my life or myself as a person. I feel like no one is worse at life than I am truly.

I have fallen into the same trap of overplanning, and over-optimizing only to experience numerous failures, hardships, setbacks, and eventually the worst depression of my life. I am going into my senior year of college with little to nothing to my name, no accomplishments, a disappointing grade transit all while trying pretty hard. It's made me feel so low I can't even begin to function. How have you guys made positive strides in your life withstanding perennial disappointment?

This past year and a little bit of the last I have experienced perennial disappointment. I have rarely succeeded at any of my endeavors and it's weighed on me like nothing else. I feel crippled by my disappointment and it gets hard to keep my heart beating sometimes. I feel so ashamed of myself that it's hard to think about anything else. Have any of you guys been disappointed a lot and how do you guys cope with it?

This year has been the most tiring year of my life and I still have a full course load in the fall. Tbh I can't enjoy my life with school looking over my head and it robs another 4 months. I am just glad this is my penultimate semester and my final semester is empty with just the second semester of capstone. I genuinely don't enjoy life whatsoever and I am just wondering if others feel the same.

I feel guilty that a full time course load honestly kills me. I took a full time course load in the spring, courses in the summer, and now I am trying to take the max load in the fall (to not feel like I am doing less) as well to have an empty following spring other than capstone. To be brutally honest, I feel wiped out mentally and I feel soooo guilty for it. Just this and I am already feeling wiped out. I am not even doing a third as much as others and I STILL feel wiped out. I feel embarrassed and ashamed of myself but also so exhausted and unfulfilled. Does anyone feel the same?

I am regularly applying to on campus jobs, reaching out to the recruiters directly and sending my career oriented information, and reaching out to several organizations for you to be avail. How have you guys been doing it?