/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2034504
Another pipe-dream of mine is working a stint at McMurdo Base in Antarctica. My full degree is "Communications and Signal Processing" so I'm maybe they would hire me on to do some sort of satellite stuff.

>>2034506
I'm 23 now and I've been "working" with electronics since I was 18, but only really got serious the past two years or so. I still feel like I don't know shit. But (not to suck myself off or anything) from working with my peers in these classes, I can tell they know nothing of EE and have no passion for it. It kills me but it at least gives me hope that I'll stand out on the applicants list.

These first year classes are torture though. I know enough about basic linear circuits that I feel like I could skip a lot of it. I've taken an "Engineering Analysis with Applications to Embedded Design" class which was "C for Idiots and Engineers", where the only embedded design was XORing the LED register of some mcu in the very last lecture of the class. I learned a lot about C but nothing else (like, for example, how to actually properly program for an embedded system). I'm still 2 semesters off from stuff I actually want to do. I can't even talk to my professors or build a rapport like I really want to, because everything's remote now.

The end result is, even though I think I can tackle a project like this, a lot of the stuff I'm looking into for it seems like its own semester's worth of a rabbit hole that I just don't know about yet. I'm determined but I feel like it'll come crashing down soon enough. I think the process would be a lot smoother and a lot less painful if there was someone knowledgeable to guide me on this, because this project touches on a huge amount of topics and fields (ASP, DSP, Embedded programming, low-noise op-amp design, analog filtering...). I planned on being able to talk about this kind of stuff with my professors, but then covid happened just before I transferred up from community college to start my actual EE degree.