It's just a Laplace transform but instead of using the table, we have to solve it by hand aka using the definition. And at this point after overloading my brain with different methods and how to solve them, I can't seem to do simple integrations anymore. Now I am eating candy and junk food and avoiding my work and going to youtube because I can't compose myself at the moment.
...yeah, Laplace was sort of the most horrible, but once you forget about really trying to understand the framework and equations (I mean really, time/frequency ? you have to chop your perception) its actually easy (even by hand, not under exam time pressure though). You have to forget to lead into Fourier transforms, which are actually goddamn beautiful and probably a serious part of music, and life. And if you havent forgotten (about really trying to understand), z-transforms and DSP and horrible advanced but scarily real stats will freak the shit out of you.
It is a good perspective to try an retain throughout the madness, though. I lived on store bought, home cooked pizza, and in 3+4 undergrad year, a lot of good, lab fresh coke.
Engineering degrees are like the world. They do not care how good you are, there are lots of good students right next to you now. They care how much you can handle. Enjoy those 4 (non bullshittable cos it works or it doesnt) projects every 2-3 weeks.
And never, ever, laugh at the comp Sci students when they ask for help with lame math. You are gonna end up coding
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