<p>Hey,</p>
<p>I was wondering if doing engineering at the top schools and or Ivys kills your social life and makes it hard to really enjoy college because of the work.</p>
<p>If you could reply with your college, engineering major type, and experiences with freetime/social life... that'd be great.</p>
<p>I'm just hesitant about engineering because it seems like it kills your college life. I'd be up studying on friday while my friends go out and party all the time.</p>
<p>Sometimes you might have to study on Friday night in engineering. That is just how it is. You will definitely work more than your liberal arts friends. But that doesn't mean you'll have no social life. Plenty of engineers party and stuff.</p>
<p>Well, you can always party all the time too--you'd just be a mediocre engineering student. =|</p>
<p>If you partied ALL the time, you wouldn't be a mediocre engineering student. You'd fail out.</p>
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If you partied ALL the time, you wouldn't be a mediocre engineering student. You'd fail out.
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<p>Yeah, what he said.</p>
<p>In my opinion, if you really love engineering and take interest in what you're studying, then missing a few parties won't matter much to you in the long run.</p>
<p>Perhaps this is just the MIT in me talking... but I am inclined to say "who needs a social life?"</p>
<p>How I see it...</p>
<p>Sure your social life will be sub-par during college if you do engineering. Sure you'll miss out on most of the parties (not all, but most). Sure you'll be up to your eyeballs with work.</p>
<p>But think about the after college life. You'll be making mad money. You'll have a hot spouse, nice car, nice house, and life would be all milk and honey.</p>
<p>i don't need a social life... forreal...</p>
<p>Let's make some money. mad money.</p>
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But think about the after college life. You'll be making mad money. You'll have a hot spouse, nice car, nice house, and life would be all milk and honey.
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yeah yeah, what ever</p>
<p>I don't need a social life either- I didn't in high school.</p>
<p>My first year at RPI, during the weekdays, was all about long hard classes, ton of HW, track practices, work-study, and a harsh diet that I chose to follow. The first two account probably for about 85% of the reason that my high school friends said that I looked worn out and sick when the year ended. My weekends were pretty much spent studying, and track meets at times.</p>
<p>I did take Friday nights off tho. I don't drink, so I never actually went to a party.</p>
<p>engineers don't really make a lot.....if you want money, hot spouse, nice car and a nice house, its better to be a doctor or a banker.</p>
<p>It's all about time management...I'm sure engineers also party and get crunked up...lol</p>
<p>I'd think that engineering is probably the highest paying profession for anyone with only a bachelor's degree. Doctors and lawyers both have to get advanced degrees, but engineers can easily start at $50,000 straight out of school.</p>
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It's all about time management...I'm sure engineers also party and get crunked up...lol
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<p>This is also true. Work hard, play hard.</p>
<p>what about an engineering major at like a party school like Arizona State? lol</p>
<p>Y'know, I went to Rice for engineering and was accepted to all the top ten grad programs I applied to, and I did plenty. I partied a lot, had tons of friends both in and out of engineering, had a band of my own that rehearsed and performed regularly, performed with the choir, held two part-time jobs, was in a musical and tech'd for other musicals, and even found time to be drum major of the band and an area coordinator of Rice Beer Bike. I never pulled an all-nighter, either, so it's not like I didn't sleep ever. Just manage your time effectively, take advantage of review sessions, form study groups, and you'll be able to do whatever you'd like in college. Being an engineer is not a social life killer. Never let school interfere with your education! ;)</p>
<p>"But think about the after college life. You'll be making mad money. You'll have a hot spouse, nice car, nice house, and life would be all milk and honey"</p>
<p>I think you're talking medical field....engineering is shrivelling....by the time you graduate, you'll be lucky to have a job.</p>
<p>Engineers are needed everywhere. It definitely isn't shrivelling. Without engineering, doctors would be much less effective in diagnosis and treatment. Every faction of engineering is equally important.</p>
<p>I'm an engineer's wife. Engineers do just fine, and unlike doctors and lawyers, he is home at night and never "on call" or meeting clients in jail. We have a very high quality of life so putting up with the hard college life has been well worth it to him.</p>