<p>I am in my senior year with one more year to go. I go to school at central in CT. The engineering program there has been around since 2000 and was just accredited by ABET last year. </p>
<p>My current GPA is a 2.5 and I have been dealing with massive amounts of stress and anxiety's from past/ongoing family issues while attending school which is reflected in my gpa "sort of".
The quality of teaching that I have witnessed in this program is a complete joke. I cannot understand at all the reason behind it. Also just last year they finally opened up a engineering help center, except there are only 2 tutors available. Trying to get good grades at this school is impossible, I have seen my friends get A's and B's but only because they "help" each other... aka Cheat off of each other from a past graduated students tests and homeworks that they copy and distribute to each other like food. I have heard of at least 2 instances where a student sued the school because the teachers did nothing about him/her cheating on a test. </p>
<p>I am currently working 20hrs a week at a engineering related company and have a year worth of experience at the company. What should I do in this situation?? should I lie about my GPA on my resume? I want to go into sales so that I do not have to get any kind of certifications. Thanks for your replys.</p>
<p>you are a senior at central? Central CT University? I can see why you’d say the program is not great there - but my post (other thread was about UCONN in STORRS). Do you know anything about THAT program specifically? If not, please don’t say negative information about a well-respected public university. Thanks.</p>
<p>my brother is going to uconn, Im just saying verbatim what he just told me. I would weigh “effective” more than “respected” any day in my education.</p>
<p>I know uconn has more help for engineering students, but I dont know personally how well the teachers are.</p>
<p>If you go to class, pay attention, do your homework, and get help during officer hours then you shouldn’t have a problem getting an A or a B. Your grades are low because of lack of effort on your part, not the quality of the program.</p>
<p>You’re in college and you are an engineering major, what did you expect?</p>
<p>Go to class “check”
pay attention “check”
If teacher explained material in class in understandable manner,
then homework=no problem “check”
office hours: have work or other classes during office hours “no check”
OR teacher is never at his office hours </p>
<p>so go home and teach myself from the book, in which the book isnt even written in a clear and concise manner, filled with theories and variables that are not even explained in the material. </p>
<p>im sorry you were saying something about quality and lack of effort??</p>
<p>Never, ever, ever, EVER lie on your resume. That is a fast way to completely screw yourself over. The fact that you have experience with that company means that even with a slightly suspect GPA, if they like you they will likely hire you on. Just take that job if it is the only option and you can eventually use your experience there to spin your way into a better job. GPA doesn’t generally matter after that first job after school.</p>
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<p>Make the effort to do office hours or find a study group. If you genuinely can’t make office hours, try and set up a time to meet with the professor. They are generally very busy, but they can usually take 30 min or so to meet with a student if need be. I cannot stress the importance of a study group enough though.</p>
<p>Students who help each other by using old homeworks and/or tests to study from isn’t cheating unless whoever is teaching the class has forbidden it. Since you are struggling, and (presumably) they are not, you need to avail yourself of the study aids they are using. OTOH, if they are actually cheating ON THE TESTS, and the university can’t/won’t do anything about it, neither can you, except to just study as hard as you can, and try to do as well as you can. (Welcome to the real world, where people cheat, and the “powers that be” can’t do anything about it.)</p>
<p>If you can’t talk about your family problems with your family, perhaps there are counseling services you could go to at your school. (Hopefully they are included in the cost of your tuition and fees.) I went through similar problems as an undergrad, but eventually my grades got better.</p>
<p>Don’t lie about your GPA. If a current or prospective employer asks, just tell them. Since you’re already working, you have a chance to show that you are capable of doing work despite your GPA. Take advantage of this opportunity; others are not even getting that.</p>
<p>Get rid of that one paragraph. Stop making excuses. Everyone deals with bad teaching, everyone deals with cheaters. Just do better than the cheaters. If they are cheating, they’re cheating for a reason. They’re lazy and stupid, beat them. Stay motivated.</p>
<p>Let me see if I have this right, at your school: the teachers are bad, your books cannot be learned from because they are poorly written, your personal issues are interfering with school, and nobody can get an A or B without cheating?</p>
<p>I once overheard a kid from my Calc II class telling someone (outside of our class) that nobody in our class got above a D on our midterm while complaining about the teacher. I thought that was interesting, since I got an A, and my buddy in the class got an A as well.</p>
<p>Stop making excuses, start finding solutions. They’re everywhere.</p>
<p>I think if you are really committed to it you will find ways to do better. Working 20 hours a week is a lot, perhaps you could work less. Also, studying with others in a group is a great thing to do. Get yourself a study partner and work together. Cheating does no body any good. Your being taught and learning the material you will need to be a good employee. Dont focus on others, focus on yourself. With problems at home, deal with them at a later time, if possible, if they do not involve you, politely ask for some breathing room so you may concentrate on your work. You are so close to finishing. stick with it, take a breath, you can do it.
Never lie, you can never run away from yourself.
good luck</p>
<p>My son is an engineering student and he seems to be in frequent contact with his instructors via email. If he can’t do a problem or has a question, he asks (pretty much everyone including me sometimes) until he finds out what he wants to know. He has even gotten help from another instructor who taught a different section of his class when his own section instructor would not respond to email. My son can’t always get to office hours either, so email is great as long as you don’t wait until the last minute.</p>
<p>To: TableRock and Echo 4300: Stop wasting your time. You can never compete
with certfied engineers from recognized schools.If by some miracle somebody
hired you - you would get layed off. TableRock wants sales - why in engineering?
Go: Communications.
Echo 4300 would need to be very strong in math: calculus, discrete math, physics -
sounds like you will never make it - be realistic - go for some thing else. Am Engr 50 yrs.</p>
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