<p>Throughout the past two years of my high school life, I've taken a total of 2 years of Chemistry and one of physics. While I always excel at the concepts, I seem to have a terrible time with the labs. It's like, I am one of the few guys who actually understands the concept of the lab and has an understanding of what you should be getting, but I never actually get the results. There's always something either going faulty, or it's not going right. </p>
<p>Am I screwed for engineering if I can't excel in these simple hands-on activities? I understand the concepts, the ideas, and even what results I should be getting (ballparking) but I can't land the results. Granted, I've been improving, but still. It's a fear I have.</p>
<p>I really wouldn’t worry about it at all. Generally, doing a high school science lab is nothing like designing something for engineering. Science labs test your ability to follow of procedure accuratly, whereas engineering tests your ability to apply science concepts to think of a clever solution for a problem. Although in some kinds of engineering students would be expected to build stuff that they designed, an activity in witch the ability to follow a procedure accuratly is useful and needed, the much, much, more important aspect of engineering, the design component, rests on a completly different skillset. The ability to fully understand concepts is much more important for engineering design than the ability to obey the science teachers orders.</p>