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graduation project and research opportunities

Alright, time to talk shop

The project i chose for graduation is all about drone noise control, I'm trying to find the best way to eliminate propeller noise through wave superposition principle where a well placed array of speakers produces an out of phase sound wave corresponding to the movement the drone is doing, the way I'm thinking of tackling the latency issue when timing the audio output is to have a trained ml model which can produce a clear relationship between the motor variables and the sound produced by the propellers which can consequently guide our tuning of the audio player program

update, the project got delayed for a while thanks to my fighting for my fighting for staying in the uni by earning a ton of credits from useless info. gonna get back on it these next few weeks and hopefully get the ML model finished asap, gathered some resources i found to be useful, mainly prof. Steve Brunton's YouTube channel as well as his and prof Nathan Kutz's book and accompanying online resources included in the UoW ocw, good stuff. Long live the open source web!
https://faculty.washington.edu/kutz/page5/page23/
https://databookuw.com/

Y'all wish me luck!!

P.S. Gonna worry about the mathematical formulas later, now it's time to code up a storm ...ish lol

Ah ha

just watching paterson, the adam driver and golshifteh farahani movie, throughout the movie i felt held in place by the overwhelming layout of the lifes of the people of paterson and our mc paterson, a simple, calming layout yet dynamic in its own right; we get to see how mc starts every day of the week, his job where he has a chance of getting into a multitude of conversations as i see it, however pat chooses to observe with minimal judgement appearing on his face but there's definitely some level of pondering going on in his mind although we aren't witnessing it directly but rather implicitly through his writing, which seems to revolve around his girlfriend laura, a stay at home artist and all in all creative individual who can't contain said creativity as well as skill, her process of creation and in times production is sometimes reminiscent of an adhder; the whole varying interests as well as the intensity of the projects and their value for the adhder. But the thing that attracts me the most to the movie is the relationship between pat and laura, it's such a tender coupling of personalities where pat's routine seems almos trance inducing especially while watching his whole week go by, while laura's "going crazy with it" (not too much though XD) but still on the pat train where she's happiest, their relation seems so free...at least in its depiction in the movie which seems like a surreal split dimension yet doesn't qualify for that description, i doubt this is independent of jim jaramusch's direction as i've seen how other couples in his movies interact with such tenderness towards each other

Current Mood: frustrated
Current Music: victorialand - Cocteau twins

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school status and possible solutions

Ok, first post, new to the whole blogging business but wanna log progress good and bad and kinda scared how i'm putting myself on speaker here but i feel like it's gotta be done, hopefully someone will read and find some answers or maybe provide some answers lol, or to phrase it as purplecat does: "Snagging is free. Credit is appreciated. Comments are loved."

Alright, time to get into it, this is gonna be about my degree in progress and how i can't see myself getting it anytime soon.

A bit of background is that i study mechatronics engineering in a chinese university taught in chinese as an international student with chinese being my 5th language (lil flex but i'm only fluent in 3), i have been living here in china since 2019 so i had to experience covid the chinese way. the chinese way being denied access to class as a freshman and being forced into online school in spite of being on campus grounds (which i didn't resist much as i thought online school was easier and i could use the extra time for my varying interests...bad move i know...only after losing a scholarship )

Right now this is my third year from a 4 year program with the forth year around the corner and 60.5 credits needed out of 123, and a mediocre chinese level. I can't even grasp 30% of what the professor is saying once I'm in class, consequently i avoided going to class altogether for as long as i could which made school and studies into a vicious circle.

I have discussed the matter with my family letting them know about my mental health status in the middle of the first semester of my second year and insisted on going back home after this whole ordeal for 1 year of sabbatical which they were totally opposed to and counter-offered me to come back for the rest of the semester and go back to school for the second. what I haven't told them was how i already applied for the sabbatical once i got home. A step i would have to undo a week later.

I have basically wasted another semester coming back to china, with a pitiful chinese level and no classmates i could ask for help, that was me trying my family's plan (focus on important classes while bettering the chinese). With that failed and outta the way i thought up a new plan, Start on the graduation project and try and publish a decent paper i can have under my belt when applying for master's, all while focusing on chinese and research interests. I thought of the subject I'm interested in exploring and have already found a professor who's enthusiastic about it as well however, once in the lab office I'm super lost and scared shitless thinking about the possibility of being found out (my supervisor isn't aware of my failed courses), it gets especially scary when i think about the lab experiments i have to build from scratch on their dime with no experience and no guarantees of them being fruitful. I'm currently closed up in my room with my sleep cycle all messed up reading random stuff that might help in the research but with 0 guidance or guarantees.

I'm trying to hype myself up to just get busy and stuff will fall into place, but that proves un-doable so I would appreciate any feedback from anyone with close enough experience.

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