<p>Hey, we did that at Rice, too.</p>
<p>If anyone is interested in Petroleum Engineering, there is a huge need right now. The major oil companies have many people retiring, and petroleum eng hasn't been as popular to major in as it was when my H got his degree in it. Thus, there is currently a shortage.
My S wasn't interested though...will major in EE</p>
<p>I am interested in Petroleum Engineering, but I am going to major in mechanical engineering to keep my options open. The oil business is not steady at all, but most of the VPs used to be PE's...according to my dad (geophysicist).</p>
<p>Petroleum Engineering is only offered at 17 colleges in the country, and the only ones at top Engineering schools are Penn State, Texas, and Texas A&M. Similarly, Nuclear Engineering is a major at only 19 schools.</p>
<p>Other PE schools:
Colorado School of Mines
University of Oklahoma
LSU
LSU is throwing money at potential PEs like crazy</p>
<p>You could always do ChemE. That would keep options open and be great for petroleum b/c of classes on distillation columns and thermochem.</p>
<p>isn't the petrol industry the biggest hirer of chemE's anyways.</p>
<p>I believe so actually. Good point. Food and chemical companies have to be close behind.</p>
<p>& Pharmaceuts</p>
<p>I really don't get this. I've been hearing a lot latley how engineering majors don't have a social life. I don't see why this is so. Suppose they are really busy, there's no way to clear a few hours up on friday and saturday night? or do people who seem to have this problem just have poor time management skills and dump a few too many hours into tv or video games? I'm going to start college soon and I don't see why I can't fit a little time in every night to hang out with friends on top of doing a few activities as well. am I going to be doing homework for 10 hours every day? Maybe I am just naive.</p>
<p>Whatscooking- Nah. You'll be fine. Everyone freaked me out with all their talk of "OMG, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO LEAVE THE LIBRARY!!!!" and then I went and did all sorts of extracurriculars and did all sorts of stuff with my friends all the time and maintained a good enough GPA to get me into all the top grad programs. I'm no supergenius, either. It's all just time management.</p>
<p>Time management is key. Though I really hate it when I study long and hard, thought I got the material down, and actually do not-so-good on the exam.</p>
<p>yeah defintely not true at all. i think i have plenty of time for doing whatever, and i'm maintaining a pretty high gpa.</p>
<p>I am a sophomore in CompE at UIUC. My first year went great. The classes are challenging, but I had tons of free time. I went out at least three times a week, never pulled an all-nighter, went to a library once the whole year, made tons of friends, was offered three internships this summer, and took several finals with hangovers... I'm not saying I tried the hardest or got the best grades of my peers (still made the Deans List though), but you can have as much fun as you want at school and still have time to study.</p>
<p>your year sounded a lot like mine. although i never had an hangover during a final, i did go out quite a bit and definitely had my share of free time w/out much detriment to my grades.</p>
<p>interesting thread.... anyone else want to comment... i just heard of a family friend who dropped engineering due to a lack of social life in college and lack of the real "college" experience</p>
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<p>While I don't want to be cater to TOO many stereotypes, but what I would say that while it is true that many engineering students have no social lives, a lot of that can be explained by the simple fact that a lot of them don't WANT to have a social life. </p>
<p>I mean, honestly, have you seen some of these guys? Does anybody really want to socialize with them? Seriously, I swear that some of these guys haven't showered since last summer.</p>
<p>Dude, c'mon. That's less helpful than just rude. Just because you have posting seniority here doesn't mean you have carte blanche to be unconstructively mean.</p>
<p>Honestly, the smelliest people I've known weren't engineers.</p>
<p>Actually... I've only known a couple of smelly engineers, now that I think about it. Most of the engineers I've known are nice, fun people, and I've had a great social life, both with my engineering friends and with my non-engineering friends.</p>
<p>Oh give me a break. We both know that a disproportionate number of engineering students are socially awkward nerds. To say otherwise is to simply deny reality. Don't believe me? Why not take a walk in the bowels of MIT sometime? Come on aibarr, you know what I'm talking about. </p>
<p>My simple point is that a lot of engineers may not have social lives because they don't WANT to have social lives. A lot of them genuinely think it is more fun to be anti-social.</p>
<p>I think it's wrong to say typcial engineering students are "anti-social". Either they have difficulty opening their minds to other people (due to characteristic, hobby, etc) or they don't have enough to time to meet up with other people, due to amount of works in engineering classes.</p>
<p>Sakky, I think you shouldn't use anti-social in this context, because it carries meaning of purposely avoiding other people and despising people hanging out together. It's better to say the streotypical engineering students are reserved, not "anti-social".</p>
<p>And you seems to think being social means 'hanging out with large group of so-called main stream people every night in parties'. I think there are many engineering students, who are social by participating clubs and having close friends with similiar interests.</p>