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Above harmony chair facing South in early winter at sunset.

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Sometimes you don't realize something is beautiful until you look back on it months later.

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I hope to better understand my major and what I need to do in order to succeed in mechanical engineering at UW.

Improve my class planning to successfully get my degree

Begin drafting applications and then find people to review drafts

Find a better balance between skiing and school where I won't be overwhelmed and I can maintain a 4.0

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Relearn K-Feds and get them consistently

Start adding grabs to tricks

Spend more time on unnat slides and rotations

Prepare switch skiing for jumps and bigger tricks

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Do 3s off Andy's Point

Add grabs to tricks and cliffs

Tweak backflips better

Get more comfortable trying off-axis tricks when opportunities are available

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My Top 5 Values

Commitment (This wasn't one of the values listed on indeed, but it's something I live by every day. You can't achieve your goals without being committed to the result and the process, and vise versa)

Growth (Learning from your mistakes is extremely important, and being able to build from what you learnis what helps you not only accomplish your goals and prevent the mistake from happening again but also what makes you happy and healthy)

Persistence (Persistence is how you get to your goals, even in the roughest of conditions. It's good to take breaks, but you can't give up - be persistent toward your goals, never stop until they're achieved)

Self-Improvement (This kind of fits into the last two, but self-improvement is vital in learning who you are and what you love/are interested in, which is what will make you successful)

Kindness (Maintaining friendships, loving your family members and being kind to strangers is what I think is the most important piece to a person's happiness)

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Pathways Week Event 1: Faculty Conversations Mixer

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Pathways Week Event 1: Faculty Conversations Mixer

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I met with Cameron and Sophie from the Business department at UW Bothell, and discussed the possibility of participating in a double major in Business or a minor in Business alongside my Mechanical Engineering Major.

This was interesting, as I was given an opportunity to meet with a hiring manager from Boeing on Thursday, the 25th of January. I also learned that Finance or Accounting is a great suit for me because I love numbers and computing logical algorithms, and applying to Boeing or Airbus with some business experience would be very beneficial.

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I attended a business majors meeting, where we discussed business majors and different paths with business careers. I learned about even more paths in business related careers as well as different options to pursue business in school and achieve my MBA.

I was very fortunate to meet with two women who work with Boeing in a group that specializes in recruiting students from UW. I got their LinkedIn information, and they gave me some insight as to what they're looking for in students as candidates for internships and potential employees.

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I would like to know how long after education different members of faculty got their full time jobs, and what in University led them to pick and apply and get accepted into their job.

I'm planning on doing internships at Boeing (or other companies when opportunities present themselves) to aid my chances in being requested or accepted when I apply for a full time job.

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Grabbed Safety in 3s

Hit new unique park features

Got more comfortable skiing switch off jumps

Tried a 3 off Andy's

Butter 3s cleaner

Can slide the pow rail smoother

Did safety 3s off the medium jump line

Sliding boxes lip-on

Can do 1s and 3s on boxes

Front 4s off pipes are dialed

I got my first follow cam line, where I successfully did a clean front 4 off into a clean safety 3

Got rodeo 5s dialed, working on rodeo 7

Improved my style

JOINED THE DUB CLUB

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Potential Major Applications:

Mechanical Engineering

Electrical Engineering

Aerospace Engineering

Business Administration Finance Minor

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Safety grab in the middle of a 3 in terrible conditions on 29th January, 2024

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A cool capture I took of a safety 3 I did in the middle of one of my favourite lines of the season - pretty proud of the progress I've made so far this season (:

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Mid-Flatspin with Japan grab in SummitParks on 3rd February, 2024

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Working on flat 3s on the park and setting the rotation and timing well. I'm really happy with this cool photo I was able to take of myself in the middle of the rotation.

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Comfort Level: I feel quite comfortable communicating with professors and parents and other students. I think I should apply this more and get more help from peers, and I think I should also talk to more UW faculty, including advisors.

In general, I have social anxiety, but I am able to overcome this when I know it is necessary to communicate. In a professional setting, I work the same why, and I can remind myself that people are genuinely interested in working with me 90% of the time.

I should work on being more clear in my communication, and coming to a professional conversation more prepared and knowing exactly what I need to talk about.

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www.linkedin.com/in/alexandre-claux-1165482a7

Question for Alumni Panel: Do you regret any academic choices you've made ? Do you have any tips for transferring if you have transferred ? Do you have any tips on applying to your major ?

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Alexandre Claux - Ski Coach - Boyne Resorts | LinkedIn

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Mechanical engineering major. I am passionate for skiing and interested in ski lift mechanics. Currently working on learning about machinery and materials dynamics, as well as building skis. I have experience working physically with team members, fixing skis and working with tool and materials. | Learn more about Alexandre Claux’s work experience, education, connections & more by visiting their profile on LinkedIn

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This was an interesting topic to relate to career. Someone must find a sense of purpose before they can be comfortable in their career; they cannot be comfortable in their career without a sense of purpose.

I agree with what they said about cultivating your purpose; it' something you have to grow. You can't realize it suddenly; it's something you discover as you learn about who you are.

I think this applies well to career, as it's initially hard for many people to find what to study or what jobs to start searching for because they don't know what they enjoy or want to do.

My goal is to continue to cultivate my purpose by learning as much as I can in engineering and discover new opportunities as they arise. It's important to not be limited, to find where you're truly most successful.

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I watched a few long videos on AI, computer learning and some of the strategies computers learn to learn efficiently and sort among other things.

Some strategies computers use for classifying things included regression analysis, which matches things with certain traits to a regression line and determines whether things fit with the regression line of that data.

Another strategy was called k nearest neighbor, where an algorithm repeatedly picks 'leaders' out of members of a set until they are spaced well apart from each other but around other members, and then groups the nearest members of the set to these to group pieces of a set into pieces of similar traits.

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I enjoyed this event, especially because I had an awesome opportunity to talk to a couple students who were in the the exact same or similar paths as me.

I learned first and foremost that experience/projects is probably the most important attribute in most fields, especially engineering. I need to start joining clubs and working on projects as well as maintaining good grades, as skills in my field are super interesting to people looking to hire me.

I also learned about how broad being engineer on the planes at Boeing is - I can do statics on many very specific parts of the planes, I can design the wings, I can work on comfort and I can do electronics and all sorts of things in the plane. Even after I pick a specific field or company, there is still some mobility and options to make which is phenomenal.

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I absolutely love skiing, so I decided I'd add some posts dedicated to my progression and journey skiing this season.

One of my favourite things about skiing is the amount of freedom you have on the mountain - I've found opportunities to throw various tricks in random spots on the mountain and take advantage of very unique terrain such as spines and different large cliffs.

My goal with skiing is to participate on the freeride world tour, and maybe get sponsored by RedBull.