<p>After the heavy science and math class of your freshman sophomore years like phy 2, diff eq, statics and the other weed out classes is school easier? Is it true most of your junior, senior, and fifth year classes aren't through the math or physics department and if so do the classes needed for your major lighten the load? So basically if you survive your first two years are your next 2-3 more enjoyable?</p>
<p>I am a 2nd year EE and let me tell you. It is not anywhere close to easier than freshman year. If you think freshman year is hard, you should quit now or greatly change your study habits because they will continue to weed out engineers in your lower division engineering classes next year. Most classes are not taught by the math and physics dept as you move on. The classes are more enjoyable but they become increasingly more demanding.</p>
<p>I disagree. I am a BME. At least for me, things have gotten easier (in connection with the fact that I became a better student). Ways in which things got easier:
- Less competitive curves.
- Better Professors (Professors don’t want to teach intro courses).
- More connections between classes. My Diff Eq skills have saved me dearly in my Circuits course.
I could go on. Things do tend to get easier, even if the courses are technically harder. I say this as I take Orgo 2. In Orgo 1, I struggled to get a B. In Orgo 2, I have a strong shot at an A (while taking more credits…21), though the material is technically far harder (and the professor is 3 times as fast as the previous one). Things that seemed hard/impossible to understand now seem trivial (like lots of Orgo mechanisms, or most of Diff Eq). It will get better, or you’ll find something that suits you better.</p>
<p>I’m technically a sophomore level student, but I haven’t yet taken any major related courses, mostly math (cal, de, etc) and science. Things do get harder as you progress, but your study habit and skill should improve as you go.</p>
<p>to NINJAINVENTOR
Wow, 21 credit hrs! Hats off to you sir!</p>
<p>In my experience, things that do NOT get easier are: concepts, workload, projects. In fact, they get harder. However, grading curves do get much easier. YMMV.</p>
<p>Why would the curves get easier after all the failing kids drop out?</p>
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<p>This ^^</p>
<p>First semester unfortunately got rid of all of the dumb kids.</p>
<p>Because if curves were easier earlier on, more people who shouldn’t still be in the major would pass.</p>
<p>I don’t think it gets easier. All the hardest EE classes at my school are in junior year!</p>
<p>And I agree with you<em>of</em>eh.
Some of my professors grade with a curve, so if you make the average, you’ll pass…but then the kids at the bottom don’t pass and don’t move on, so in the next class, the average students might be at the bottom of the curve. (Yikes for me, I was a couple points below the curve on the last test.)</p>
<p>I thought my toughest year was sophomore year. Half of my schedule each term was killer classes from my major, and it was difficult to see how they all connected. By my junior year I started to understand what was going on, and while I still probably worked just as much as I did sophomore year, I understood way more of what was going on and enjoyed the work a lot more.</p>
<p>4th year EE here. It got WAY harder in my opinion. The large calc/physics classes with students from all the engineering disciplines were much easier than the upper-division EE courses. The hopeless ones hadn’t failed out by then and you could always count on them to shift the distribution favorably.</p>
<p>My GPA trend is steadily downward. Good thing grad schools don’t care about senior year grades.</p>