{"id":1437,"date":"2025-06-10T13:27:57","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2025-06-10T13:27:57","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T18:27:57","slug":"struggles-with-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/struggles-with-solidworks\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggles with SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yesterday, on Monday, we learned some topics on SolidWorks, which was my first time, and it was pretty rough with lots of new material to learn. At first, I had no idea idea what I was doing, I was trying my best to keep up with Sam\u2019s lectures. I think that SolidWorks is similar to computer science and math, and many other subjects, the best way to learn is to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the end of the lectures, I had a pretty bad understanding, mostly because I forgot everything that was just taught in lecture. We were given an assignment, we still have this assignment, to create certain designs. It\u2019s a struggle, but I feel that I\u2019m getting better and better after just doing. I remember what my electrical circuits professor told our class whenever we complained on how to analyze a circuit, he told us a story on how to eat a Big Mac. It looks impossible to eat, but the most important is the first bite, then everything else falls into place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, on Monday, we learned some topics on SolidWorks, which was my first time, and it was pretty rough with lots of new material to learn. At first, I had no idea idea what I was doing, I was trying <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/struggles-with-solidworks\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1444,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.vrac.iastate.edu\/reu2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}