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A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 10:52 pm
Are you into video games? And if so, what’s your favorite game?
Shanereplied:
on January 9, 2024 6:45 pm
Yes - Legend of Dragoon
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 10:04 pm
Let’s say you’re involved in too many extracurriculars but you love them all but you are beginning to burnout. What would be a step by step guide for handling the situation. Asking for a friend of course…
Shanereplied:
on January 9, 2024 6:44 pm
That's a good one. If you have to reduce, I'd say pick one that makes you happy, and one that looks good on your resume.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 9:56 pm
If you wrote a book about your life thus far, what would be your favorite chapter?
Shanereplied:
on January 9, 2024 6:43 pm
Probably the innocent and whimsical chapters about my childhood.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 9:38 pm
have you ever messed around with PIC style microcontrollers? im trying to use them for projects it is a hoot!
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 9:40 pm
Yep! Microchip did this sample program and I got a ton of chips from that that I experimented with - They are fun!
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 9:27 pm
What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 9:31 pm
African or European?
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:55 pm
What was your favorite thing/experience about being on a race team?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 9:31 pm
The friends I made along the way.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:32 pm
If you were a mythical creature, what creature would you be?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:36 pm
Probably a gnome.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:27 pm
You mentioned a cool co-op in your introduction slides, what was that like?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:36 pm
By the time I left I was doing a full engineers work - they put a lot of faith in me and I learned a ton.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:18 pm
What was your rock bottom in college and how did you turn it around?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:35 pm
When I failed a class in graduate school on my first semester here - I thought I was going to lose my funding. I had to start taking my classes more seriously and really engage with the material.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:06 pm
Favorite vacation destination that you have been to?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:33 pm
Venice Italy. It's a fun place to get lost.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 8:05 pm
What are you the most proud of?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:33 pm
Makerfest, an event that a team of us pulled together from nothing and it went quite well.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 7:38 pm
If you could only use one logic gate for a circuit what gate would you choose and why?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:32 pm
NAND - it's everything.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 7:37 pm
Favorite sauce at McDonalds?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:32 pm
Ketchup
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 7:11 pm
0 productivity so far, are you doing ok?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:32 pm
First days of the semester can be bears. But in all seriousness I have to update the chart every night - so hopefully it will be an okay number - thanks for checking up on me!
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 6:19 pm
What games have you played?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:31 pm
Many
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:29 pm
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood? Just kidding. Here’s the real question: If you could bring back any trend or outdated slang, what would it be?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:30 pm
Make malls trendy again.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:26 pm
Did you always want to go onward with school? Or did you have other aspirations before attending university?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:30 pm
I sort of always figured I'd go to college, but grad school wasn't in the plans until the last year of undergrad. It all changed during a conversation I had with a professor I looked up to.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:13 pm
How did you determine your major?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 5:53 pm
It was somewhat arbitrary. I guess at the time the idea of learning to make things seemed appealing. Mainly I just wanted to go to the school my cousin was going to.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:13 pm
If you could live anywhere without needing to change anything else, where would you live?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:29 pm
Somewhere close to my family.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:12 pm
What is your favorite genre of music? Do you or have you played an instrument?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:28 pm
Rock. Guitar.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 5:08 pm
do you like turtles
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:28 pm
https://youtu.be/CMNry4PE93Y?feature=shared
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 4:50 pm
What’s your favorite part about teaching?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:28 pm
Getting to know students and knowing that the seeds I plant will be with you all forever.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 4:45 pm
Hey Shane! What’s the best way to come up with ideas for EE projects outside of class?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:27 pm
See below
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 4:44 pm
What’s the best way to come up with ideas for EE projects outside of class?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:27 pm
First make useless stuff that's not intended to do anything. Just experiment. Then make things that solve small problems that you have.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 4:35 pm
What’s your favorite class to teach?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:26 pm
Microcontrollers
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 4:19 pm
Do you think if Skanderbeg was at the crusade at varna things would have been different for the crusaders?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:26 pm
It depends on the availabilities of iron ore coming from the east.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:56 pm
Did you play any sports growing up? OR What is your current favorite sport?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:25 pm
I did track in highschool - it's where I met my wife.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:56 pm
What is your favorite video game?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:24 pm
Wind Waker
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:52 pm
If you were given 1 million dollars (no strings attached) to spend in 2 weeks, what would you do?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:24 pm
Pay off my house, invest it. If investing isn't an option, then buy a bunch of tools.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:44 pm
What is your favorite book or movie? If you don’t have a favorite, what is your favorite genre?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:23 pm
The Name of the Wind
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:40 pm
It’s blue, isn’t it?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:22 pm
Dabadedabadie
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:29 pm
What is your favorite NFL team?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:20 pm
The Spruces
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:23 pm
do you have any pets
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:20 pm
3 cats and a pooch.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:18 pm
When you were at your lowest academically and or failed a class, how were you able to bounce back and re-gain confidence? What made your passion stay?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:20 pm
The passion never really left, I sort held classes in a separate regard. It was always math classes that I was failing. Making a habit of studying with friends helped a lot.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:13 pm
What’s the biggest learning curve in digital logic?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:18 pm
Verilog
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:10 pm
What’s your favorite video game
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:17 pm
Puzzle Pirates?
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:10 pm
What is the most valuable lesson that you have learned in life?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:17 pm
Learning to improve yourself is the most useful skill to have.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:08 pm
What brought you back to Michigan Tech to teach after getting your PhD?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:16 pm
I never left. Teaching overlapped me finishing my PhD
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:03 pm
When did you realize that you could finally do what you wanted to do, relating to when you were struggling as a student and your advisors wanted you to change majors, and what made you realize this?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:16 pm
Comments like that sort of made me dig my heels in. Plus I did have an intrinsic interest in the material. The more I did, the more I wanted to know.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 3:01 pm
What was a way you kept our head up through school even though you weren’t doing as well as you liked.
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:15 pm
Honestly I didn't have good "systems" at the time to deal with it, and sort of just drug myself through at times.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:57 pm
Why did you choose Tech?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:14 pm
First, Tech chose me. Then while I was here I feel in love with the place and the school.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:50 pm
Favorite TV show/series at the moment?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:13 pm
Currently watching through House MD
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:46 pm
What book are you reading right now?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:12 pm
Every Tools a Hammer by Adam Savage
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:40 pm
If you could have a superpower, what would it be? And why?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:12 pm
Transformation - being able to turn into anything just seems to be the most useful.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:38 pm
What was your most favorite course you have taken?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:12 pm
Probably Electronics 2
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:32 pm
What is the most obscure music album / artist that you listen to?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:11 pm
Probably John Frusciante's early solo work.
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:29 pm
How long have you been at Michigan Tech?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:10 pm
Counting grad school, 7ish years
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:27 pm
Favorite number?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:10 pm
77
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:27 pm
What’s your best way of reducing procrastination
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:10 pm
https://oberloier.com/2022/11/01/my-productivity-method/
Or
https://oberloier.com/2024/01/04/embracing-the-to-do-list/
A Strangerasked:
on January 8, 2024 2:23 pm
What is the hardest lesson you have learned either personally or professionally?
Shanereplied:
on January 8, 2024 8:08 pm
No matter how hard you try, some people just aren't going to like you.
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