<p>Hey so I'm a CS&E major and I'm currently taking EE1 and I'm having a really tough time with it. I know EE2 is supposed to be much harder and I'm pretty worried. So I'm just wondering if the EE path gets easier after that point.</p>
<p>I'm loving CS so I'm thinking I switching into straight CS. I feel like circuit analysis and design would be really interesting but the physics is killing me.</p>
<p>Thoughts?</p>
<p>As an EE grad, I have to be honest with you, it will only get harder and harder. And that is why 67% of all starting EE ended up dropping out of the program. </p>
<p>Circuit analysis and design gets worse when you hit analog design, whereas digital is a bit easier.</p>
<p>Almost everyone (including me) who started out as CSE switch to straight CS. I did after taking EE2.</p>
<p>Believe me, analog circuits (115B) is hellish. Not because the material is tedious and abstract (which it is), but because the professors who teach the courses are notorious brutal in grading when it comes to exams. Hell, I’m going to be taking it a 3rd time around this winter. :P</p>
<p>I’m a CS&E major taking EE110 and EE102 this quarter. Before this quarter EE was kind of challenging but wasn’t so bad I thought. (I took EE1 and EE10 before)</p>
<p>Now I hate it and wished I switched to CS earlier. There’s just so much math involving complex numbers in the upper divs. It’s too late for me though. I’m too far into the EE track.</p>
<p>CS&E majors don’t have to take 115B (thank god) but we do need to take 115A and 115C.</p>
<p>It really depends on the professor, or at least it used to. EE 2 was considered one of the toughest classes, but I noticed that recently has gotten a lot easier i.e. Pan vs. Vaswanthan or Fetterman. Also, EE 2 is not like EE 1 in terms of concepts (i.e. EE 1 -> EE 101, EE 2 -> EE 121).</p>
<p>Levan was the best choice for EE 102 and EE 141, but now Tabuada teaches EE 141 and the new professor teaches EE 102. </p>
<p>EE 115A is taught by a variety of professors (i.e. Razavi, Chang, etc.). Razavi is perhaps the best of them.</p>
<p>EE 115B used to be taught by Razavi or Pamarti, but Abidi taught it last year, and you probably heard the mess that caused.</p>
<p>As far as EE, I always thought you can get by picking the easiest professors for your core classes. That’s not the case for the pathways, however.</p>
<p>ask any junior or senior in an engineering major like EE, and they will tell you that each quarter they tell themselves “I used to think the classes I had were hard, but this is the quarter with hard classes!” In other words, if you don’t like it now then it would be wise to switch.</p>
<p>Oh god, where do I even start…</p>
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<p>That’s an exaggeration, in my opinion. You can get a bunch of past homeworks, exams, labs, and projects if you are resourceful enough. This gives you the opportunity to get a lot of practice so you will be able to do well in class. However, most people get a hold of the materials and slack off. In the end, the curve saves you.</p>