<p>Hey, I’ve been reading the site for a while, but haven’t posted yet.</p>
<p>I’m planning on attending next near for Electrical/Computer Engineering. I’m a little worried about handling all of the math that comes with an engineering major. How is that freshman year? Also, I’m not sure about what to do with the LLC. It seems like it would be great to be around people in the same classes as me for studying and such, but at the same time I feel like the LLC is lacking the diversity that I’d find in standard housing. I’m not sure if I want to live with ONLY engineering majors.</p>
<p>tpt91… math is cake as long as you took ap clac in high school. if you are skipping clac 1 first semester and taking calc 2 instead, it may a bit harder, but I didn’t not take my ap credit and retook clac 1 basically and had calc 2 this past semester, overall it is pretty easy. some professors require homework, other do not. I had homework first semester but second semester it was optional. It mostly depends on the professor. </p>
<p>I did not do an LLC and did alright, however with the LLC you have a lot more options for homework help, etc… </p>
<p>As advice, avoid Stanley Forman (teaches ENG U110) if you can, he is a nice guy, but requires so much extra work that is pointless. Whalen is the man though for your engineering classes.</p>
<p>Hey, I am having a really hard time deciding between Northeastern and Miami. Both are around the same price and comparable academically. I really like Northeastern and the Co-Op program so it is basically between that and the beautiful weather/women/parties of southern florida. I want to know if the Co-Op is worth it in the long run and how the parties at Northeastern might compare to the ones in miami, which seems like a lot of fun, with some bars that aren’t too strict about IDs and stuff. Basically, does anyone want to convice me to go to northeastern?</p>
<p>Not sure about Electrical/Computer engineering, but the math in the actual engineering classes for ChemE’s is pretty intense. Taking double and triples integrals is like adding in our Fluid Transport class. Even in thermodynamics, there is a lot of algebra and tricky math steps. The actual math classes are pretty easy. I had over a 95 average in Calc II, III, and Differential Equations. </p>
<p>To add on to what rdsoxman5 said, I had Foreman for Engineering Design and was always upset that we were doing twice as much work as all the other engineering design students. However when I went from him to Whalen for engineering computations, I had a lot more fun. I don’t want to say avoid foreman but he is definitely a lot harder than the other professors.</p>
<p>dwillax: see every thread in this forum regaring “Northeastern or __________.” Basically every thread in these forums is about why anyone would pick NEU over other schools.</p>
<p>Thanks. I’m currently taking pre-calc. It’s part of a sequence started in 6th grade, a pre requisite for calc is that, and calc is a pre requisite for ap. Do you think that will turn into a problem next year?</p>
<p>Hey tpt, now I’m not engineering at Northeastern yet, but considering engineering is all about math, you might encounter some problems not having learned full calculus while still in high school. I was in the same situation as you (one year behind most people in math), so I took a summer course in precalc Junior->Senior year so I could take calculus my senior year in high school. I’ll let someone else who’s at Northeastern fully answer your question. But I wouldn’t totally worry about the math. Going into Calculus and jumping from CP1 to honors level was scary at first but I got the hang of it quickly, which might be the same experience you’ll have in college as long as you study and work hard when you need to. And not taking AP Calc shouldn’t be much of a problem. Maybe at MIT but not at most other schools. My point is, don’t let the fear hold you down from your hopes and dreams ;)</p>
<p>I’ve said this before, but it bears repeating. The point of college is to teach you the skills you need to be successful in your field. In order to do this, colleges are going to reteach you a lot of the stuff you already know to make sure everybody is on the same page. Even if you have no calc experience at all and you come to NEU and take calc I, you can still do fine. It is the same as if you took any other class you have never taken before. People are always worried if their lack of background in a certain area will put them at a disadvantage. Don’t worry about it! There is no need, in my opinion, to take any summer courses or get caught up in anything. The hardest part about college, getting accepted, is over. If they didn’t think you could survive because of your math background, they wouldn’t have accepted you. Just get in there, do the homework, go to office hours if needed, and you’ll do just fine.</p>
<p>What I said about the math in chemical engineering is not to discourage you from being an engineer. It is hard, but everybody gets used to it/is in the same boat. </p>
<p>In short, it is not a problem you are taking precalc. At least one person in my study group did not take calc in high school at all and has one of the highest gpas in our class.</p>
<p>As an example of what RedSox said: I have never taken an economics class before in my life. I did terribly in Calculus (but managed to get AP credit, I have no idea how). The closest thing I’ve come to knowing anything about economics is that there was some sort of stock market crash a long time ago, and in the Great Depression, lots of people were poor.</p>
<p>My freshman year I took microeconomics and macroeconomics, and I’m now an economic major. You really don’t have to come to college with knowledge in a lot of stuff.</p>