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Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:00:51 2011 No.3957359 [Reply] [Original]

Any actual engineering majors here? How's the work load? My counselor is telling me that if I do get into my top choices that I probably won't be able to handle my engineering courseload and still have a life.

PS: engineers are gay spam aka bumps are welcomed

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:03:51 2011 No.3957378 File: 56 KB, 300x300, Costanza.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >2011 >having a life in college >etc

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:04:51 2011 No.3957380 have you finished 1st year?

>>	Krakengineer !!5XY+x7grkpt Wed Oct 26 18:27:51 2011 No.3957458 >>3957359 I found the time to go to a few parties every month. Eight or more hours of homework a night on top of class time was regular though. During finals I'd be completely locked away for days.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:40:51 2011 No.3957488 I'm an honours student in computer science, Im in the university rowing team and Im also in a student corpus. I wont say fraternity because 1) Im in europe and 2) frats are for proles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:44:51 2011 No.3957507 If you dont waste all your time on 4chan you can have time to party on the weekend at the very least. Plan to do at least 8 hours/day of class+homework during the week and you should be fine.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 18:48:51 2011 No.3957515

It was a breeze for the first two years, then shit started to get serious. But it wasn't terrible... I would have maybe 10 to 15 hours of homework a week for all of my classes. Projects took considerably more time in addition to that, but it was manageable. I still had weekends to fuck shit up.

Grad school is a different beast altogether, but I still went out on occasion.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:00:51 2011 No.3957567 Stop making excuses OP.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:05:51 2011 No.3957594

ME 3rd year.

Some semesters are better than others. Not every professor is the same. Last semester I was turning in about 40 pages of calculations per week for homework. This semester it's about half of that but the problems are more difficult.

They already broke my spirit so I just push on at this point.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:09:51 2011 No.3957604 Second year EE Honestly, it's not so bad thus far. I never really have been a big studier, though, I normally can retain information really well. I don't go to parties anyway, so it doesn't matter to me. I have a lot of free time, though.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:11:51 2011 No.3957615

4th year EE. Whenever I hear people say they spend 10 hours studying a night I typically feel like they more just fail at managing their time or something. If you do all your assignments when they're assigned,and prepare for exams weeks in advance, you should only have to do a few hours of homework each night.

In order to do well in engineering, all you need is a shit tone of paper to get through millions of practice problems.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:18:51 2011 No.3957652 File: 69 KB, 640x480, 1308285001921.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3957615 and billions of calculationg mistakes. >dat feel when your result is wrong because of a mistake 2 pages earlier

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:26:51 2011 No.3957698

>>3957652

You reach a point where order of magnitude matches are pretty good results.

All the shit they tell you to assume was negligible in the first year that you learn to account for in the second year might not be calculated for in the results of the third year.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:32:51 2011 No.3957724

4th year biomedical engineering.
I drink 2-4 times a weekend, occasionally go to clubs, smoke weed once or twice a week (used to be a stoner and smoke almost everyday, freshman and sophomore year), and party pretty hard with a group of friends that drinks and smokes a lot.

My grades have suffered quite a bit from this, the work load gets pretty heavy especially in your 3rd year. So yeah, I have a pretty active social life, but my GPA is also right around 2.8. You can have a life and have above a 3.0 if you're not a retard about school like me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:37:51 2011 No.3957742 >>3957698 yeah I know, but in the past, they only wanted to know how well we could manage computations. Only orders of magnitude have global physical sense. But I think it's important to know how to get enough precision when needed too!

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:42:51 2011 No.3957763
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I'm doing computer engineering and taking physics 2, discrete math, computer science 1, and calculus 3. It's not crazy but it's a decent amount of work. I spend most of my time studying, and all my friends are out at other schools so even when I have to time to go out there's no reason. So I usually just spend that time studying as well.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:49:51 2011 No.3957785 File: 90 KB, 550x825, 1313911898282.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3957763 The only reason I said the classes is because people have told me that if I can survive this semester non of the others will be as difficult.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 19:53:51 2011 No.3957810 Why are 1st or 2nd years even replying to this thread? You're not engineers: just inferior mathematicians. If you haven't passed statics/dynamics, go to /lit/ and give them some help with their college algebra.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 20:14:51 2011 No.3957896
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Why are undergrads even replying to this thread? You're not engineers: just inferior mathematicians.

If you haven't written your own original thesis, go to /lit/ and give them some help with their college calculus.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 20:30:51 2011 No.3957970 >>3957896 implying engineers write a thesis

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 20:36:51 2011 No.3958005 >>3957896 >>3957810 Because only like 5% of /sci/ at most is older than 20. What, you thought anyone here knew what the fuck they were talking about?

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 21:39:51 2011 No.3958203
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junior mechanical/energy engineering major here.

half our class dropped out freshman year. sophomore year, half of the remaining changed to shit tier disciplines.

the die-hards and i gather weekly to drink and do our studying/homework/labs/research/etc.

anythings possible when you know the outcome: making 60k+ USD out of university (shit tear cash but in this job market its significant), with prospects of 150k+ in ten years.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 21:48:51 2011 No.3958223 File: 11 KB, 250x100, 0000007079.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i don't know, it's piss easy so far. as in, the only trouble i've had i've made for myself also check out this baby lol

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:23:51 2011 No.3958312 Freshman CompSci here. My roommate wants to be an EE but he hasn't opened a book since we got here (two months ago). Is he fucked?

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:26:51 2011 No.3958316 >>3957970 >implying you don't That's what you do in grad school when you're a real engineer.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:27:51 2011 No.3958319 having a life is over rated. seriously, give up that high school bullshit of wanting to be popular and going to all the parties.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:31:51 2011 No.3958331 >>3958319 This, sort-of. If you want to party, party. If you want to study, study. If you want to do both, do both. Always know the consequences and don't do one just because you think other people want you to.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:32:51 2011 No.3958335 >>3957615 true 3rd year ee but it's fun :) >>3958312 he is shit tier already.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:33:51 2011 No.3958337
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>>3958203
>anythings possible when you know the outcome: making 60k+ USD out of university (shit tear cash but in this job market its significant), with prospects of 150k+ in ten years.
>undergrads still believe this

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:37:51 2011 No.3958357

>>3958203
>anythings possible when you know the outcome: making 60k+ USD out of university (shit tear cash but in this job market its significant), with prospects of 150k+ in ten years.
>implying 150k is a lot of money.
>I'm a math major, make 300k a year.

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:42:51 2011 No.3958372
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>>3958337
shhh

Tread softly because you tread on their dreams

even radiologist jobs are being outsourced to India and the mice still go round and round the maze

http://radiology.rsna.org/content/242/3/654.full

Anonymous Wed Oct 26 22:59:51 2011 No.3958422
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4th year chemical engineering major here. I attend a fairly large public university. I have a 3.7 GPA and I did research for two years, so I'd say I'm doing pretty well. Honestly, I haven't found it to be that hard, although I have a knack for math, so that probably helps. I don't manage my time too well so I pull all-nighters four times a month or so, but the rest of the time I have plenty of free time that I spend exercising, playing video games, playing guitar, surfing the interwebs, and partying on weekends. I think you'll be fine, in my experience it's not as bad as some people say.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 00:01:51 2011 No.3958587 bump

Anonymous Thu Oct 27 00:51:51 2011 No.3958754

I think a lot of people hype it up to be a lot worse than it really is. You will be pulling some all-nighters sometimes, but this is entirely dependent on you and your ability to manage your time.

It may sound cliche, but if you can be good at managing your time that is an extremely powerful asset and it will take you very far in your degree.

Personally I'm still quite poor with my time management, I find myself catching up with lectures and pulling all-nighters to finish assignments when things get busy in a semester, but I think most people go through that.

Just fuckin' do it brah.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 27 00:55:51 2011 No.3958779 >>3958422 god damn it I want to fuck her so bad

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