<p>Heya,
I got accepted to Georgia Tech and I've been wondering how the classes are there. I mean, is the syllabus interesting, are the professors good? I've been reading that some of them "do teaching only as a side note" and mainly concentrate on their research. Does this happen often? I read on another thread that there's a high absenteeism rate at classes because they're boring?...</p>
<p>I got accepted to Electrical Engineering, so I'm mainly concerned about that area.
Any info would be helpful :)</p>
<p>I've been reading around the forums and there seems to be a few people who really, really hate gatech as if it were extremely personal (schaden was his name?... not sure) In any case, I'd rather thought out, balanced responses rather than extremely biased ones.</p>
<p>Well, they won’t be all fun in terms of hw and tests. But if you like the material, then the class should be interesting. It also helps if you have a good teacher, of which I have had several. </p>
<p>But Scaden is right in the respect that it is there a teachers focused on research who don’t really care. At least in the intro classes, there don’t seem to be a lot of those. RateMyProf website helps in trying to avoid those kinds of teachers.</p>
<p>I’ve been really lucky with teachers, but I’m a first year computer engineering major (basically the same as electrical but with a CS focus), and i’ve enjoyed my classes. I have to recommend though, i’m a TA for intro to computer science, and I’ve learned more from that than any of my classes because it’s all practical applications of things. So things like that are good for really learning more about topics:)</p>
<p>Try to use the course evaluation system to figure out how teachers were graded by previous students and to see grade distributions. A big part of Tech is taking the right teachers.</p>