How to Prepare for your 1st Year of Engineering | Back-to-School Guide

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Published 2021-08-29
For engineering students or even STEM students, I created this video as a guide with everything you need going into engineering. There’s definitely a lot of misconceptions about engineering that I hope this video clears up. I also tend to get a lot of questions about what’s the laptop for engineering students, so I talk about that in this video. Timestamps are as follows:

00:00 Intro
00:59 School Supplies
04:16 Study Techniques
08:12 Time Management
08:40 Internship Guide
09:25 Mindset

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ABOUT ME:
My name is Tamer Shaheen and I am a recent mechanical engineering graduate from the University of Waterloo. I like to make videos about university/college, engineering, and personal development. Thank you so much for watching!!

All Comments (21)
  • @truckynforky
    Lemme tell you this: 1) nobody is gonna hold your hand anymore and Guide you thru assignments and stuff. 2) manage time effectively or else it’s over. 3) study 4)study 5) socialise. You’ll need these friends later for group project 2yrs down the line. 6) ask questions
  • You're definitely going to be the reason I graduated with a first class/honours. 🤝
  • @NicholasMootoo
    I'm about to start my First Year of Mechanical Engineering Next week. Thank You Tamer for this video!!!
  • @abbasdharamsi
    I remember my first year of Engineering! It was really exciting but also stressful and scary at times. These tips Tamer has shared would have definitely helped me! Im planning to also make a similar video on my channel. Thanks for the inspiration Tamer and a quality video as always :)
  • @6tk
    I’m going to start my first year of Petroleum Engineering next month! Super excited to achieve my childhood dream! :)
  • your channel is so comforting for a first year eng student thankyou so much! will be sharing your vids with my classmates cause we all feel the same
  • @emilianovb
    Love you Tamer! Had my convocation today, gonna binge your videos tonight.
  • @korrabel
    Great video! Wish I had these tips when I first started mechanical engineering in uni
  • @mikeearls126
    Your handwriting is perfect....to me, that looks like the sign of an organized mind and one perfect for engineering
  • @srisha.k7846
    Thank you so much for the z-library resource it has all the textbooks I need for my classes
  • @okolol
    2:22 just wanted to get this warning out there, if you planning to use the new apple m1 stuff, such as the new macbook air, you CAN'T use bootcamp anymore because apple apparently decide to put their own stuff in it, which is not what other windows laptop expecting, however, it can be change over time and the development of new version of bootcamp, while waiting for that you can still use virtual machine, but with many limitations ofc, one of the biggest is the performance, I probably can make longass explanation about it, but I'll try to simplify it a bit for the sake of simplicity. Let's imagine you use a software that made for os A on platform 1, but you have os B on platform 2, so you need to put the os A on a wrapper or container like a jar (in this case is virtualization). But remember, you virtualize os A on a os B on a platform 2, so now you need to translate the code made for platform 1 so platform 2 can understand it. After reading it all back, I think it'll be better if I explain it like what it is without any oversimplification. But anyway, is there are any alternative? Yes of course! First, you can use vps (basically just virtualization, but instead of doing it on your mac on a m1 arm platform, vps is a big blob of cloud that live somewhere with (mostly) x86 cpu which is what most of windows machine use) like I did, however, it's quiet expensive for my liking. I use contabo vps with 6vCPU and 16gigs of ram and with no gpu (so you can't do advance simulation, you can do it with AWS, alibaba, or azure if you want), which cost me about $40 for the first month and around $33 for the rest. The down side with vps is, it is virtualization, so you can't use other virtualization such as Android emu on Android studio to test your app or even wsl, but since you use mac, you probably can still use those on you mac. Second, buy older model of mac, this is the easiest way I think. Third, why don't you just.., you know, use windows laptop, this would be cheaper than the other options. Fourth, I haven't find one, so you can stick to vm until there are any other way out. Cmiiw Thanks a lot for reading btw.
  • @vsfoxZ
    great video. amazing editing. really helpful!
  • @Lucia-js1jv
    thank you so much for showing z library in the video u have save my life !!!
  • @hijay8501
    Thank you so much bro! You're the best!
  • @shubham_dev_
    This is my first year in Electrical Engineering. Your tips helped a lot. 🙂
  • @musfiq8363
    I have not done very well in my 1st year..but I will try these ideas in my 2nd year and hope I will do well..thanks man👍🖤
  • @fozanshaque6094
    Ur just so good, please make more videos, u keep me motivated!