<p>Any current GaTech students here who can elaborate on the course loads and the kinds of internships available at GaTech? What are some of it's pros and cons of this school?</p>
<p>Thanks.</p>
<p>Bump (10 chars)</p>
<p>Anyone will to inform me about GaTech?</p>
<p>well, i went to connect with tech, which allowed me to talk with current students. All of them pretty much said the same thing, that Tech is a lot more difficult than high school, but if you take advantage of all of the opportunities availble (Professor office hours, studying, tutoring, etc.), there is no way that you will fail. However, it is very difficult to excel at Tech. Even though the above is true, employers know how hard Tech is and will give you a break on your gpa because of this.</p>
<p>Course loads: depends on your major. I know a guy who was struggling with 12 hours a semester in EE and switched to management and was able to handle 21 hours. So, it can be a LOT of work. If you don't procrastinate you shouldn't ever have to pull any all-nighters, but there will be weeks at a time where it seems like you have a never-ending pile of work to do. As far as internships and co-op jobs go, almost everybody I know who wanted one and put even a little effort into it has gotten one. Everybody wants tech students.</p>
<p>I'm taking 19 hours this semester (7 classes) and I expect to get no less than a B in any class. I'm an ECE. Admittedly, it was a lot of work and I feel like I'm going to die, but, it can be done. Now, my first year, I had 13 hours, which turned to 10 after dropping a course, and I had HORRIBLE grades because I didn't put in as much effort as I should have.</p>
<p>When people say Tech is difficult, they are not kidding. But the upside of this is that you end up learning a great deal in the process. I personally have managed two 4.0s out of the 3 semesters I have completed so far, so it is possible.</p>
<p>How is the quality of teaching and the professors? Do students get the chance to go beyond books in many occasions? Is it very hard to capitalize on the research and internship opportunities because there are too many others to fight with?</p>
<p>I second Brahmin's question. Especially opposed to UT in civil engineering, how do research opportunities/hands on learning compare? I heard UT had a huge Structural Engineering research lab thingy, but I know GT does a hell of an engineer...err....sorry I starting singing the fight song. I meant to say a hell of a lot of research.</p>
<p>It is very easy to get research opportunities as an undergrad. The reason being is that the government loves giving grant money to labs that have undergrad researchers, so more undergrad researchers = more grant money.</p>
<p>As for going "beyond the books," in my introductory C class, we're learning how to program GameBoy Advance and make games. They teach us the hardware basics (interrupts, DMAs, video, sound, etc.), and teach us C along the side. </p>
<p>Most people would expect an intro programming class to be all about "hello world," but this was far from boring; it was challenging, but it was nice to learn something practical that could be put on my resume or brought up as a "perk" in an interview.</p>
<p>Thanks for the positive note in this thread. Things were sounding so negative and I was hoping some GT students would jump in and bring in some postive light.</p>