All of that??
Yeah
Hi everyone
I'm Jess, this is my friend Zara.
I'm Zara
She's from Iran. She's really excited to be here.
So excited
So we had some questions about mechanical engineering
I did mechanical engineering at McGill in Canada
And I did my bachelor's in Prague. At Czech Technical University in Prague.
Yeah
And now we're both doing our masters at ETH Zurich
Yeah
So we have some questions here submitted by Charlotte Doyle
I hope that's how you say your last name.
Yeah
So her first question is
What are the hardest classes of mechanical engineering?
Should I list the hardest classes by year or in alphabetical order?
Do as you wish.
I think vibes? Vibes is hard. Turbulent flows.
That was hard.
Okay
Aircraft control.
Control! Everything about control basically is hard.
Machine elements, it's about design. And what else...
My electronics course wasn't
yeah yeah
Wasn't hard.
No that was hard. That was definitely hard
That wasn't hard.
I would say Mechanics 2 like
Mechanics: the second the kinematics. It's about control...
Yeah that one was really hard. Actually, now I remember.
Oh thermo! Thermo! Why haven't we talked about thermo?
Thermo 2 and Thermo 1 and Fluids 1 and Fluids
Fluids 2 wasn't as hard.
She's just saying that
"Don't study engineering"
No
No, Thermo 1 was hard. Fluids 1 was hard. Thermo 2 and Fluids 2 were not as hard
I think it's because it's like your first time seeing the second law and you're like
I don't actually remember...
Of all honesty I'm saying, there's no difficult thing is just about like time management
you have to manage your time so that you would be able to pass all the exams like
with good grades or whatever but it's all about time like and hardworking
being hard worker and like just about, really it's just about being too much material
Okay so yeah, "Was it hard to keep a good GPA on your bachelor's?"
I say
No, for me not.
Yeah I say for me like, I just took it one midterm at a time
and I was able to do it
Okay
Yeah? Like one step at a time
and you're able to do it
"How many hours per week do you study ?"
She studies like none, at all.
In my bachelor's I had no life. I can honestly tell you
I woke up at like, right before class, went to class all day, did work between class
went home studied, non-stop all the way till midnight, took one hour break to eat and watch TV
like one hour and then yeah, finished studying at midnight.
What a s****y life.
How was it for you?
Your bachelor's is just a blur.
A day? Like how many hours a DAY?
Yeah
if I distribute all my studying it would be maybe 2 hours/day?
Oh my goodness! 2 hours a day?
Or maybe less, yeah.
What? You're insane!
No I'm not, I'm not
"How hard was the last year of school?"
I know her answer
"Oh, I don't even remember my last high school"
No say your answer.
My second last semester was like the hardest part of my life
I was studying for the GREs, applying to schools
so also doing research about the professors at the schools
emailing all the professor's
I had like hard classes like
turbomachinery and all of these really hard classes and I was doing my
bachelor's thesis. And it was experimental work
But you should say that your bachelor's was different
I mean it wasn't a normal bachelors
She did bachelors for five f*****g years
Yeah, well I also did mechanical and aeronautical and then I did honours which means that...
she did a lot of research
So I did research
Yeah
How about you? How was your last year?
Last year definitely harder than the other years but...
Machine Elements and Mechanisms
Yeah and it's a hard course.
We had it in the last semester together with the masters
like bachelors thesis.
Yeah that made it hard.
I was really working hard.
The only time in your life. Never again.
No at ETH!
"What do you think about internships?"
Okay so we had to change locations because we got kicked out
of the garden, it closes at 6:00 everything closed at 6:00 in Switzerland
But I was saying that internships, I think in North America, if you have your summer free
then it's important to get some sort of experience to at least set yourself apart
because everyone has good grades, now.
Yeah, yeah that's true. That's true.
Everyone has good grades so I would say if you could do research in the summer
some sort of research position in a lab or do an internship
then that's already really good
As Jess said, like everyone has good grades nowadays
I think so, yeah.
So the internship or even research places makes you different...
Why are you whispering?
And also again if you do research instead of an internship
then you have relations of the prof
so if you apply to grad school, then you have a letter of recommendation that actually has some weight to it
Yeah that's so good.
I did some sort of like, this stuff in my previous University in Prague
Was about thermo physical properties of fluids
and I did it with my prof. He had some relations with CERN
He was actually being a scientist in CERN, so that was so useful in my CV
I hope this was helpful
I think we made all the hardest classes in mechanical engineering
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