<p>I am accetped at Northeastern University, University of Vermont, and Rochester Institute of Technology. I'm a Mechanical Engineering major.</p>
<p>All three are great schools but I'm trying to decide which is best for me. RIT and UVM gave me great financial aid packages but Northeastern gave me a little less. </p>
<p>I could probably make at NEU with the money from all of the scholarships I applied to, though.</p>
<p>RIT and NEU both have great co-op programs (which I want) and UVM has none, but you can get internships. </p>
<p>UVM and NEU have great campuses and social scenes. RIT, eh, not so much. </p>
<p>I’m currently a sophomore mechanical engineer at Northeastern. </p>
<p>I’d highly recommend NU, especially if you want to be an engineer! Most of the engineering professors are good and the classes are pretty challenging. Co-op is awesome for engineering!! Engineers get some of the highest paid co-ops. I’m going on my first co-op in July.</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any more specific questions.</p>
<p>Thanks for the your response! I’m going to the accepted students day at NU this weekend and I’m really looking forward to it. </p>
<p>How long did it take you to learn how to balance your workload with your social life/fun time? Do you find that you have a lot less free time than your friends that aren’t in engineering?</p>
<p>You’ll have less free time than non-engineering friends. The only people who can really compete with you in terms of workload are the science kids (me), but you have them beat by a little bit.</p>
<p>Luckily, there’s nothing better than whining with your engineering/science friends about how you have sooo much more work than all those business & communications majors. It’s probably one of my favorite pastimes. </p>
<p>You’ll learn to balance workload pretty quickly. It helps to make friends with people in your major so that you can see how other people are handling their work and studying. You’ll still have plenty of free time, just not as much as your non-engineer friends.</p>
<p>As Emily said, most people learn to balance the workload fairly quickly. Those who don’t usually aren’t in engineering for very long. And we do our fair share of complaining!</p>
<p>If you do choose to come to NU, I’d recommend living on the all engineering floor in Stetson-West (that’s where I lived as a freshman). When I lived there we were all in the same boat and it was good for study groups and helping each other with homework and stuff. It’s a lot of fun too.</p>
<p>You’ll notice pretty quickly that you’ll have a lot less time than you’re non-engineering/science friends, but you’ll still have plenty of time for a social life and fun. A lot of my friends are engineers too so its not that bad. We all still manage to have plenty of fun.</p>