<p>If so, what ones are you in?</p>
<p>Or are you heads down studying all the time?</p>
<p>I would like to hear what everyone does on campus to feel part of the university. Lets face it engineering is some of the hardest/time consuming majors in college. So, what clubs, if any are (were) in?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I’d really like to know too. I’m going to be pretty involved in college…</p>
<p>I assume that engineering majors don’t study as much as pre-med majors…am I right?</p>
<p>I’m not on many clubs at my school. I am involved in IEEE and spend the rest of my time with friends or playing soccer or something along those lines. You will have to study a good bit to do well as an engineer, but you should be able to have free time if you manage your time well. I know engineers in all sorts of clubs. </p>
<p>GatorGurl- I can’t speak for all schools, but at least at Maryland the engineering majors study much more on average than premed students.</p>
<p>I would bet most STEM majors are pretty comparable in the time spent studying category. This means a pre-med, majoring usually in biology, spends a good amount of time studying too. But from what I’ve seen engineers generally take the cake.</p>
<p>I spend most of my time study or play sports. Clubs are pointless to me since I want to go to graduate school and I cannot squeeze time for the weekly meetings.</p>
<p>I’ve heard that a general rule of thumb is 2 hours of studying outside of class for every hour you spend in class…is that enough for engineering majors? Or is more studying needed?</p>
<p>What type of engineering can be applied to most other engineering majors, and offer the most job choices?</p>
<p>scofield1990, what sports do you play, and how much time do you spend on them?</p>
<p>Does engineering school care whether you’re a “well-rounded individual” like med school, with several extracurricular activities? o.o Is so, wouldn’t clubs be a good thing?</p>
<p>I don’t play on a team, I just play intramural basketball, it is like an amateur league thing, the time I spend depends on how much work I have every week; so it is not a big time consumption.
Clubs look good, but an internship and research experience looks better, just my opinion. It is always good to join your major’s honor society, but those are different from a club, for my school those requires less time.</p>
<p>S managed to be an athlete and get his ME degree (with good grades). It is possible to be an engineering major and do other things if you manage your time well.</p>
<p>did FSAE for four years, and it was my life. competed in germany three consecutive years and ran the team my senior year. </p>
<p>i neglected most of my courses because they were boring and i was too ADD to sit in them. probably skipped half my classes my last year. the important ones i did attend. graduated with decent gpa but nothing special. </p>
<p>got a great job out of school (working in automtive engineering in berlin for 6 months now, i graduated in june) and made tons of contacts in the industry, all because of fsae.</p>
<p>join a project team if you can. make it happen.</p>
<p>I’m part of a community service organization on campus for the past 2 years and I’ve been pretty heavily involved, except until recently because 4th year has been rather difficult. I also had a job for a little while. Currently, I’m part for FSAE for my senior design project.
It’s possible to be in a club while being an engineer. Sure, my grades are just average but college isn’t always about grades. It keeps me sane from the rigors of my courses and I’ve met a lot of people outside of my major as well. Don’t join clubs because you want something to put on your resume or application. Join because you want to make friends and enhance your college experience.</p>
<p>What chickenboi said.
Exactly…</p>