If you’re sure that withdrawing from the course won’t affect your financial aid, then I’d do it. No point in putting a D on your transcript if you’ll have to repeat the course anyway.
@bodangles yes I’ll do that on or before April 14th (that is the Withdrawl deadline).
Also, should I retake Trig in the summer or Fall? Summer courses are twice as fast since they are only 8 weeks, kind of need a break for the summer, and would like to work full time in the summer and/or move to and live with a family friend in another city for the summer but the down side to that is that this may cause me to be more behind if I continue with this path but could take summer courses at some other point in 2019 or 2020 if I want to graduate in 2022. However, those other classes may be harder to take in the summer since they are either more credit hours and/or higher level subects. If I take calculus II in summer 2019, that might be too intense since it is considered the hardest calculus class of the sequence.
I would probably vote for fall. You want to give yourself the best possible chance of doing well (not just passing, but learning the material thoroughly) this time around.
My pre-engineering advisor said to withdrawl from trig and retake it in the summer or Fall. I did it and now the pressure is off and can focus on my three other courses.
If you have trouble thinking spatially, civil engineering doesn’t seem an ideal career choice. You can do more lab and outdoors work in biology, environmental science or other fields you mentioned.
@yucca10 thinking spatially is something that you don’t have to be naturally good at either but must be willing to develop just like math. Even the pre-enginering head told me this.
Sure, you can develop many skills if you’re really committed. It just didn’t sound like you’re absolutely sure you want to be an engineer, and if you need to put a lot of work into something you’re not sure you want, it may be time to stop and think whether it might be better to do something that comes to you more naturally.
@yucca10 the natural talents I have are doing basic arithmetic in my head without using a calculator. Any Jobs that involve that? I doubt There’s any that are science related so if it’s not science related then I’m not going into it. If someone appears to have Math And spatial abilities naturally then they most likely practiced at a very early age and don’t remember it being hard because no one is born with those things.
Update: I retook Trigonometry over the summer and got a B. I am now off to Calculus I, General Chemistry I, Introduction to Engineering Design, and Engineering software tools II. these are all courses that my math courses opened up doors for. hopefully my engineering courses will give me a taste/feel for engineering and its problem solving. i hear Calculus is a different way of thinking/looking at the world.
So how did the semester go? Engineering can be tough at the first two weeks. Like missing one lab report due to the time consuming of the course.