u/curiousgaruda

It is finally looking like spring in Canada and I would like to run every alternate day keeping in mind recovery element. However, Mondays through Wednesday evenings are full of family commitments leaving only the rest of the days. Is it ok to run say, Thu, Fri and Sun with only one recovery day between?

I am not totally a beginner as I usually run outside during the spring-summer months but only run at max 5 km - never progressed beyond that.

When used as a verb, I believe it means like residing or resting, often used in context with deities in temples. I suppose Malayalam used that to mean churches and mosques.

How did that apply to schools in Tamil?

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I am so pleased to announce that I passed my FE Mechanical on my first attempt. I did my Mechanical Engineering 26 ago in India and had since mostly worked in engineering and manufacturing companies but never in an engineering role. Last year I decided to make my move to get into my original passion and chartered this course.

A HUGE THANKS TO THIS FORUM AND MEMBERS!! I could not have made this without your tips and sharing your experiences.

Months to prepare: Approx 4 months

Weekly Schedule: Approx 2 hours per day and more on weekends. It was quite tough though with family pressures, children's activities/competitions and work that I had to a few all-nighters.

Materials used: I used Lindeberg but that one was very tough and almost demotivated me. I also did Islam's questions as well. I practiced on two volumes of NCEES interactive and got 54% on first attempt and then on vol 2 I got around 78%. But that was probably because I got a copy of the old NCEES pdf and many questions were similar.

Other References:

• I did watch and learn a lot from the standard YouTube channels. A huge shout to Jeff Hansen (very mechanical engineering focussed), Mark Mattson, George Michaelson, Engineering Fundamentals and occasional Khan Academy and Chemistry tutor videos.
• I also used ChatGPT, Copilot, Le Chat and DeepSeek a lot for generating questions and getting clarifications on subjects. These LLM models were a huge help I would say. I am amazed by the way they could generate engineering and mathematical questions and also solve them.

Personal strategies: I did a lot of practice to the point I had a mental map of the handbook. Also, I didn’t refer to the book for most basic formulae saving time. Made most use of my Casio 991 calculator for things like integration, matrix multiplication, equation solving, probabilities etc.

During the exam, I mismanaged the time on the first session and spent agonising 10 days awaiting results.

If I having completed my degree 26 years ago and could pass with all the conflicts and commitments, y'all could do it too. Best of luck to all my fellow forum members.