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<p>Depends how far away you live from campus. </p>
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It doesn’t say he has class all day from 8-4. Since he is a commuter, he would have to stay on campus between classes.</p>
<p>JV, every engineering textbook will be different. We usually covered a particular subject rather than an entire chapter. A chapter could be quite lengthy!</p>
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<p>Unless he’s taking a 40 credit hour semester, he’s not in class 8 hours per day. What likely happens is that he has 3-4 hours of class in that span, and 4-5 hours of non-class time between, leading to the apparent tight schedule. </p>
<p>As an undergrad, I always took morning classes. So I set my schedule up from 8-12 or 9-1 each day, then had 11 hours to do other things (study, homework, work, research, eat, etc.) each day while still getting 8 hours of sleep. One of the perks of a larger college is that there are more sections taught of each class and you can set your schedule better.</p>
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<p>Well that’s obvious, but the information is presented as if that 8 hour block is somehow dead time when nothing else but sitting in class can be done. One semester I had a class at 8:30 and another one at 5. I was able to routinely get all my homework done inbetween those classes and had the evening to myself (… until I started doing research 
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<p>I’ve talked to multiple people who all go to the same university I am planning to do engineering in. I have talked to 3 students who just completed 1st year. All 3 sleep about ~six hours throughout entire year. I then talked to 4 electrical engineering students (2 in 3rd year, 2 in 4th year). All 4 had to consistently sleep six hours per night. All 4 sleep six hours throughout entire year. Doing all nighters for projects was normal.</p>
<p>Then I talked to a software engineer student who regularly slept 7 to 8 hours, but did an all nighter before every exam.</p>
<p>Talked to mechatronics student, who slept six hours throughout entire year. Materials engineering student got 7 to 9 hours. All engineering students mentioned having to pull all-nighters before midterms and during all of finals week. After hearing so many students talk of being sleep deprived, I’m having serious doubts of going into engineering.</p>
<p>people like to brag that they work a lot harder than they really do.</p>
<p>especially engineering students, a lot of them are very proud that their major is supposedly hard, and they’ll do anything to preserve that reputation.</p>
<p>I never pulled an all-nighter. The closest I got was 5 or 6 hours of sleep.</p>
<p>I’m interested in robotics, would mechanical engineering w/ mechatronics option or electrical engineering be better suited for me?</p>
<p>both will work. robotics is a very inter-disciplinary field. at my school, mechatronics is cross-listed across both departments. i would recommend talking to different professors and getting some experience in the lab and the classroom to help you decide which interests you most and which will be more beneficial.</p>
Hello Veislar, I have read the conversation because I am going through a similar situation at the moment, and would appreciate any advise you could give me… Please tell me, what did you finally do? Did you switch from business to engineering? If so, was it a good decision? Regards. Paulo.
PauloCC, the last time the OP commented on this site was almost 9 years ago. Start a new thread and give some details to what you are trying to decide. There are plenty of people who can offer advise.