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8-year-old me would be so jealous. Current age me is also jealous.

Including the cheat code that let you play as Santa Claus?

Depends - if you tunnel through a mountain and come out the other side, that is topologically a hole. But if you just dig down a ways, that's no hole.

"Let's hope that that tomfoolery doesn't escalate into blind, ugly violence"

The museum is pretty close to Northrop's original headquarters in El Segundo, so I'd assume it was the closest plane museum for them to donate it to. The same museum also has one of two YF-17 prototypes, also made by Northrop.

Yea verily

A vile, base creature, spurned by God and hated by His angels. A wunk without purpose. To behold this wunker is to stare into the deepest pit. No light shines in his foul eyes.

Thanks for the link, somehow missed that one from my search.

The hour long drive each way is less appealing though...

I think there was a statistical breakdown of where MAE grads went after graduation in the MAE handbook, in whatever version I had a few years ago. I don't remember the numbers though. But just from personal anecdotal experience, maybe around a third to a half ended up going into industry as an engineer (but this could well be skewed based on who I hung out with). A surprising number of people also end up going into the workforce but not as engineers - finance and consulting like to poach engineering majors too.

As for Cornell vs Princeton, I don't really have any particular insight there, except that Cornell would probably be more on the industry side of the spectrum, with Princeton still more geared to research.

Edit: https://mae.princeton.edu/undergraduate/handbook . This still has a chart showing past years post-graduation plans. Looks like I was about right with the numbers. One thing to keep in mind is that the big jump in grad school numbers starting in 2022 is most likely due to the 1 year MEng. program - I think that category is catching both people staying for the masters and people leaving to do a PhD. From experience, the majority of those MEng people ended up in industry, so the 22 and 23 numbers are a bit misleading.

Princeton MAE undergrad is very much tailored towards preparing students to do research and go to grad school. It's very theory focused with less focus on the "nuts and bolts" aspects of working as an engineer. That's often a surprise to people who come into MAE with the intention of working in industry right after undergrad (like I did) but it sounds like it's a good fit for what you might be looking for. And even if you change your mind and don't do research, you'll still end up as a good engineer if you supplement your classes with the right extracurriculars (and you'll know like 10x as much about fluid dynamics as all your colleagues)

I'd say it depends on your plans after undergrad. Do you want to do 4 years of undergrad and then go work as an engineer somewhere? Do you want to do research and go to grad school?

Well that's the thing with battlefields: after the battle, it's just a field.

Easel

A gas turbine? Have you listened to one before? They aren't exactly quiet.

We out here in Limgrave, smokin' fat doinks out in Limgrave

1. Yes. Plenty of attractive neighborhoods with nice, older houses, and the countryside just outside GR can be really charming. If you're used to spectacular landscapes in the mountains it might be disappointing, but lots of areas around Ada and Lowell especially have a nice pastoral feel. And the lakeshore is close by which is even more beautiful.
2. Depends on what part of town. Downtown, Eastown, and East Grand Rapids are quite bikeable but plenty of the further suburbs are worse, since a lot of them are dreadful postwar developments.
3. There are quite a few good bike trails in the area. All quite flat but still very nice.
4. Climate change notwithstanding, you could take up cross country skiing in the winter.

Absolutely second this. It's so easy to convince yourself that you know the material if you've read the chapter and listened to the lecture. But until you've done the type of problem that you'll see on the test, you don't know what you don't know. If your professor gives out practice exams or sample problems, absolutely 100% do them and then check your answers.

I'll take this opportunity to recommend against Grand Rapids Bicycle Company on Fulton. Maybe it was just the one employee, but I just wanted my brakes bled, and the guy tried for 15 minutes to aggressively upsell me on replacing my entire braking system, before having even looked at it. He also tried to convince me that some oily residue on my brake discs meant that they had to be replaced entirely - I guess he'd never heard of brake cleaner before.

Other people have pointed out the reasons, but you might be interested to learn that helicopter blades actually do flap, while they're rotating around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iH6dCDy4Qjo

Keep your eye on the horizon and you'll notice that the blade is moving up and down as it spins.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissymmetry\_of\_lift

Your belt for iron looks full to me, so it looks like you need to smelt more iron (build more furnaces). Then once your iron ore isn't enough to supply all the furnaces, you'll need to mine more iron.