<p>haha just kidding about the title, kind of. </p>
<p>I recently talked to a friend who's a freshman engineering student at UT-Austin, and he told me the stereotypes are true, that engineering students are socially awkward nerds. He also said the male/female ratio is insane, and that he didn't meet one girl his entire semester. </p>
<p>I realize some of these claims may be stretched, but to what extent are they true? Has anyone talked to or experienced this themselves, and could either confirm or refute my friend's statements? Thank you.</p>
<p>My cousins who went into engineering said they were kind of looked down upon in social situations whenever they said they were eng majors... but they still had lots of ladies with them all the time!</p>
<p>Some stereotypes are true, some are just correlated ideas that have become the standard. I wouldn't worry about not finding a girl, unless by nature you are a socially awkward nerd :P</p>
<p>I think it might depend where, my friend at Harvey Mudd say the girl-guy ratio is almost 35-65 there, which isn't great, but it's definitely not 0-100.</p>
<p>I went to an engineering school ... no one looked down on engineers there! I have met plenty of socially well adjusted engineers, as well as plenty of socially awkward non-engineers, over the years. If actually liking (or, for many, simply not hating) math means a person is geeky, then I suppose engineering students are doomed to wear the label. </p>
<p>Are there fewer women in the field? Well, yeah. But if a guy went to UT-Austin & didn't meet a girl all year ... I would say it wouldn't matter WHERE that guy went to school ...</p>
<p>Maybe the guy meant that he didn't meet one female in engineering all semester. It's HIGHLY unlikely that he didn't meet a single female at a major state research university.</p>