<p>@CivilEngr:</p>
<p>Electrical,Chemical are easy!!</p>
<p>so funny Brother,I have not heard a joke since long time.</p>
<p>Question: “A DAY IN THE LIFE of an engineering student? INPUT please!!”</p>
<p>Answer: As an engineering student, I have no life at all all as I study hard and work my ass off like there is no tomorrow…</p>
<p>My life evolves and revolves around: dorm, cafetaria, classrooms, library, computer/internet and exchanging idea on this forum…LOL…on week-end, I go to church or walmart to buy my snacks, or doing laundry in the basement…etc…</p>
<p>leanneasdf -
I treated school like a full time job. The analogy breaks down a little, but it worked for me.
I tried to have an 8am class every day, and packed classes back to back as much as possible. This let me get some lunch and then study, uninterrupted, for the rest of the day. As long as I had something to work on, I did. Generally (but by no means always), my days were done around 6-8pm. On Friday, I stopped by 4pm. From then until 4pm Sunday, that was “my time” and did not do ANY school work. I only broke my self imposed rule a few times. This gave me a lot of balance in life. I graduated with a 3.6, YMMV</p>
<p>I think that guy is being sarcastic about Electrical etc being easy and Industrial being hardest.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t say it’s much harder if you’re dedicated than say math or science majors (I’ll stay away from saying English majors haha). It’s really more about difficulty versus amount of time spent studying. So I guess you’ll study more, but I don’ think I study too much, I just drink too much on the weekends :). And I play a sport that takes up 5 nights of my week. And I have a job. And I work out. But I still have time to relax for at least a bit everyday.</p>
<p>Optical Sciences and Engineering. My schedule has varied semester to semester so I will give my upcoming semester as an example. On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays I have class from 10 am until 3 pm. On Tuesday I have class from 8 am to 6 pm. And on Thursday I have class from 12:30 pm to 6 pm. Depending on what I have going on, I will either get to campus on time for my first class or come in early to work on any projects, homework, etc. that I have going on. I have breaks in between these time periods ranging from 1 hour to 3 hours. When I am on one of these breaks, I am typically either in the library or my department building studying and doing homework, both in groups and alone. If I find that I don’t have a lot of homework or studying to do, (that only happens regularly the first couple of weeks of school) I will fiddle around on my laptop. I also fit lunch at the student union into these breaks. When I finish classes for the day, one of two things happens: 1) I go home (I live off campus) and exercise for an hour. Then I start doing any homework/studying that I could not get to in between classes that day. I have dinner. I love TV and movies so I always make time for TV and movie watching before going to sleep Or 2) I go to work until 8 pm, come home, eat dinner, do as much homework as I can, watch a little TV, and go to bed. I usually go to sleep between 11 and 11:30 pm. I work part time 15 hrs. a week so I am not working every day.</p>
<p>My friends and I make an effort to coordinate our schedules to have lunch together at least once a week. In addition, we do a lot of hanging out on Friday nights and the weekends. I have always found that Friday nights are good hang out nights because most people don’t study or do homework at that time, no matter how much they have to do. I spend my weekends doing some homework and studying, but I try to get most of that done during the week if I can.</p>
<p>Yes you have a social life and yes you get sleep. That is if you manage your time well. Engineering is hard, but not impossible. We definitely work harder than other students but we are most certainly not deprived of a social life.</p>
<p>I can’t second loudly enough Cal Newport’s book. It about studying effectively so there’s time left for beer. No more grind.</p>