<p>I find that engineers love to complain about school, and if you're reading this, you probably do too.</p>
<p>What are your reasons? Too much of a workload? Too much time in class, labs, and recitations? The work is time consuming and too difficult? All of the above?</p>
<p>My main reason for complaining is because there is no free time. In most classes, I get a problem set due a week later, and when I turn it in, I get a new one. Repeat until finals week. If there's midterms, I have to do both homework and study for the exam.</p>
<p>I wonder if this is also the case for students at your school. Just curious about why engineers like you love to complain. :rolleyes:</p>
<p>I complain about how all the other majors do no work and get great grades while I work my ass off and get mediocre grades.</p>
<p>Also, us engineers require 132 credits to graduate while all other majors require only 120. That’s an extra 3-4 classes (almost a whole semester).</p>
<p>Also, a lot of our 4 credit classes feel like 5 or 6 credits. 3 hours of lecture, an hour of section, 3 hours of lab, and 5 hours of homework a week. My non-engineering friends have 4 credit classes that are only 3 hour lectures.</p>
<p>I hate that my GPA is low compared to other majors, but then again there are plenty of study-aholics who have 4.0s or pretty close to in my classes. I decided I want to attend grad school and sometimes wish I would have chosen an “easier” major so that I could have a 4.0. oh well. It’ll pay off</p>
<p>Engineering is time consuming? i found that the GE’s that I took were the most time consuming. unlike psychology, economics, art history and many other non-engineering courses, engineering classes are the ones that require minimal readings, it’s one of the reason that i love engineering too. hell some of the engineering classes that i took didn’t even have textbook, just notes or powerpoint slides. a problem set might take 2-6 hours to do depending on the length, so I could finish 2 hw a day… so that ain’t too bad. In fact, I got plenty of free time during school especially when i was taking engineering classes only in a quarter. As far as studying goes, I found that if you go to all the lectures, and do all the problem sets (on your own of course, copying doesn’t help) , you are pretty much set for the exams with a day or two of studying right before the exam. On the other hand, I had to study my ass off just to get a B in GE’s, reading, memorizing, making flash cards, it annoyed me so much. well, maybe I can say that because my program is not as competitive as berkeley or any other top schools. Now I would be really complaining if i am a Bio major…</p>
What school do you go to? Do you use the solutions manual? Do you go to class?
Not sure how your schedule is, but my peers go to class early and then end late most days (usually after the sun goes down). After finishing long and difficult homework sets, reading the day’s notes, and reading the book, there’s not much time left in the day.</p>
<p>Some homework sets can take a few days … and 10+ hours. </p>
<p>On top of design projects, student organizations … even weekends are cut into.</p>
<p>I went to UCD, it’s not one of the top engineering schools but it’s not bad. oh i am civil (structural) by the way which explains the difficulty of the classes i guess. I didn’t use solutions manual, but i do use the answers in the back of the textbook to check my answers. and yes i tried to go to every lecture.</p>
<p>well one engineering class here is typically 3-4 hours lecture and 1 hour discussion per week, plus 3 hours lab if there is one. while lectures are important, the discussion section is not essential because most of the time it’s just the TA helping students with the hw, so i usually skip it. so on average i have 4 classes in a quarter resulting in 20 hours of lectures and labs a week, and due to fact that i usually schedule my classes to have friday off, i have 5 hours of class a day… which is not bad at all. even when the classes are spread out i use the break to do hw, it’s even better if they are back to back. overall I have plenty of the free time to work on hw. on top of that, I was able to play sport, work part time, and party (of cuz only if there is no class the next day) so i would say my college life was pretty fun. and just FYI, i wasn’t a slacker so i didn’t get bad grades neither. I was able to graduate in four without taking summer classes</p>
<p>I did have some hw that took me 20 hours to finish tho, yes they were just hw set, not projects, and yes they were pain in the ass… but normally a hw set would take me one afternoon the most to finish. sometimes a hw set was questions in the book sometimes they were custom questions.</p>
<p>like i said, i hate GE’s so i used first two years to finish almost all my GE’s and other non engineering courses, when the prereq engineering classes weren’t so bad. So my last two years were pretty much all upper division engineering classes which were okay even they got harder, but it was more enjoyable.</p>
<p>i think when it all comes down to it, college is all about time management. if you can figure that out you can have a lot of fun in your college life.</p>