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Endersdragon
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01 Nov 2005, 12:53 am

I probably should have titled it profession worries but whatever, anyway I want to work in the state department (specifically foriegn civil service aka embassy work) when I get out of college and I am always worrying if I will be able to do this with my social problems, as Im sure this will require lots of social interaction to not only get the job but also to keep it/advance once Ive gotten it. Anybody else have worries like these and any advice on what to do.


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01 Nov 2005, 9:02 am

Well, here is what works for me --

As an aspire I lack feedback control on my behavior. In engineering situations feedback control is a mathmatical sampling of system response and output. You make slight changes either to the input or the process to get the desired output.

Because I lack theses systems naturallly I work on building and fine tuning them. To do this I need to understand stimulus response behavior of individuals (lots of experiments on class mates) in different circumstances. As you get good at this your experiments become more discrete and results come quicker.

Classes that might help are process control, random signal analysis, experimental design - esp fractional design

Feel free to ask questions - explaining the details free form is hard.



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01 Nov 2005, 4:21 pm

I hope you're well.


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