<p>I am a junior and CE major currently going to Texas Tech; to be honest I sorta feel like the grades are rather inflated. When I transferred in I had a 3.29 and after blowing off my first semester I still managed a 3.13 institutional GPA. This semester however was a mistake; I took on more course work than I can handle and I will be lucky if I finish the semester with a 2.35 meaning a 2.71 overall institutional. I have no internship experience and with this GPA any chance I had at finding one within the college's career center is gone. I plan on taking a 12 next semester and a summer course, assuming I can't find an internship, to help rebuild my institutional GPA. The very best GPA I can achieve upon graduating at this point is a 3.3-3.4 max with a more realistic number being right around 3.0. I never really had any goals of a prestigious grad school; however, I always considered graduate school to be a potential goal at some point in my life. Now I am questioning if I will even be able to apply my CE degree upon completion with this sort of GPA and my current situation. I will complete this degree, but any advice from recent grads, engineers in the field, profs or people in my shoes would be much appreciated. BTW I am not trying to dis TTU in any way; I know there are some TTU grads on this site and maybe you can help me better understand the grading policy at Tech.</p>
<p>Trying to steal my name!?!?!?! </p>
<p>Can you join some sort of engineering group on campus where you can get experience? Something like engineers without borders? That is how I got my first internship (3.1 GPA).</p>
<p>lol, no I was surprised this name wasn’t taken. Actually there are lots, I didn’t join any last semester because I didn’t know any better or this semester because I could never make it to any of the meetings, way too busy. This brings up a good point though I plan on doing so next semester. I also must admit I get kinda nervous joining these sort of things because I am not very good at meeting new people; I realize I need to overcome that. Thanks for the advice.</p>