I hate Labs, Should I Still Go Into Engineering

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<p>I'm in grade 11 in highschool and have always loved math and physics, but hated almost all the labs we did in chem or physics class. I still did well on them, but I found them mostly boring and irritating. I always knew that I wanted to go into engineering (or at least something containing math), but I was looking up what courses I would be taking in my first year at Uni and noticed that there were a lot of labs involved. I was just wondering if I should still go into engineering or if I should change to a different course that doesn't require so many labs?</p>

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<p>I think if not all, but most hate labs. I know I do. But they’re not that big of a deal. You’ll get them over with before you know it.</p>

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<p>you will get used to them …
that’s what every 1 tells me and I have not even tried any engineering lab yet.</p>

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<p>Some labs are so entertaining that I would gladly repeat the class to have some more fun (Soil Mechanics, Microprocessor Applications…) </p>

<p>If labs are a problem go to Industrial Engineering :)</p>

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<p>As a EE major, I didn’t have too many college classes with labs, although I suppose it depends on the school and the major. High school labs can be very boring, depending on your teacher, and college labs can be quite different. For example, a programming class might have a “lab”, but it would be very different than a HS physics lab. </p>

<p>I wouldn’t be too worried about not liking labs, as long as you like math and physics generally.</p>

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<p>totally agreed.</p>

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<p>I hated chemistry labs but enjoyed physics labs in high school. During the former we were given instructions and our only task was to conduct the experiment and write down results. BORING! During the latter it was up to the group to form a research question and plan the design of an experiment. It had just to be connected with a given chapter in the textbook. It allowed a lot of creativeness and was really interesting. The only negative side was that my friends usually did nothing and only complained why it wasn’t so easy as during chemistry or biology labs where they were not supposed to think.</p>

<p>I myself wonder how labs are going to look in college as a rising freshman but if you like applied math and science there is no reason to have doubts about going to engineering.</p>

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<p>Stick with it.</p>