<p>I am currently a rising senior in mechanical engineering at Virginia Tech. my grades arent the greatest, i have around a 2.5 overall (all thanks to sophomore year with dynamics, and deforms, and most of all FINALS). i have managed to raise it a little bit over the last year. This may sound a little weird but almost every class in which i have gotten less than a C+ in has been because of finals. For example, I had a solid B in my machine design class, but the final which was worth 40% knocked my grade down to a D+, mainly because the final was exclusively on material covered in the last week of class. Sophomore year Statics, i had a B+ going in to the final, which was 7:45 in the morning, I had a physics final which ended at 9 pm the night before, so, i got maybe 2 hours of sleep, bombed my statics final ended up with a C in the class. My thermo final (which was on the same day as my machine design final), i studied day and night for a week before the final, I blanked on the test, ended up with a D+, when I had a decent grade going into the final. Sad thing is given another chance, I could've done very well on it I think. I really don't know what it is, but I just have extreme bad luck with finals, which end up lowering my grades. I feel like my grades don't show how well I learned the material or how much of an effort I put into my studies. I am now worried that because of a few finals, I am not going to be able to get a job out of college, because all internships seem to require a 3.0. I always keep having doubts about being an engineer, an I don't really know what else to do. I was just wondering if anyone else is/was in my situation. I have heard a lot of stories about people with engineering degrees finding it easer to get jobs in other fields such as banking or IT, is there any truth to this? I only ask this question because I don't really know what I want to do, but my main goal is to have some sort of rewarding career not necessarily in engineering. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.</p>
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<p>Maybe easier compared to most other majors, but banking is about the most difficult field to break into for the most part. IT, on the other hand, probably isn’t and I don’t know much about as I never really thought about it.</p>