<p>People say electrical engineers are nerdy, unsocial, etc...</p>
<p>Are the majority of them really like that? I want to get into electrical engineering but I don't want to be around people who study constantly and never go out...</p>
<p>Majority of engineers are not like that; most of them are regular people with a few nerdy types here and there.</p>
<p>People will say that about ALL engineers. While I've seen a good number of nerdy people in engineering, they're not indicative of all engineers.</p>
<p>most of the engineers in my classes are skinny and dorky.</p>
<p>:(</p>
<p>out of a class of 30, how many are usually guys and how many are girls</p>
<p>Depends on which engineering it is. I'm pretty sure there are a good number of females in computer science and engineering. Also, you're not restricted to make friends with people in your engineering classes so you shouldn't let being around a lot of study freaks keep you from going into something you enjoy (assuming engineering is something you DO want to do).</p>
<p>yeah i know..but i heard study groups is a must have and i want to find people who like to have fun also</p>
<p>Majoring in engineering and having a social life do NOT go together.</p>
<p>Totally kidding of course. BUT you will see that serious engineer kids will stay in their rooms on some weekends studying for next week.</p>
<p>^ lol believed u there for a second lol. i think i can give up some weekends :)</p>
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<p>My study group were made up of pretty much the same people I'd go out with on Friday nights to drink, see a baseball game, or whatever with. Study sessions were actually a ton of fun, since we'd all set aside a bit of extra time for them so we could screw around and enjoy it for eight hours instead of being miserable studying nonstop for six.</p>
<p>You guys went to Dodger games often? That's so sweet, I wish my study groups will be like that.</p>
<p>Pirates games, I was back in Pittsburgh at the time. It was really easy to get there since there were about eight buses that ran from right in front of my school to downtown (right across the river from the new stadium), so it was fun to go down there for dinner and the game. Also really cheap. Free bus ride with student ID and $7 tickets. I don't even think I can get parking for that here in LA.</p>
<p>None of my friends here are into baseball, so I still have yet to go to a Dodger game. :(</p>
<p>While it may be true that engineering students tend to be less... boisterous, when it comes to social things, it doesn't mean that they're not fun. I got to know some apparently nerdy guys and found them out to be fairly fun people... ie, good to hang with, go places with, do stuff with, and study well with.
in general electrical engineers at my school fit the stereotype when it comes to looks... but many of them are also very social.
Though the girl/guy ratio is still pretty horrible in EE. My EE class last quarter had 2 girls out of a class of ~40.</p>
<p>Btw, by study groups being necessary, are you guys talking about the upper division engineering courses? Or are they also necessary for lower division physics and perhaps math classes?</p>
<p>The girl/guy ratio depends on the engineering major. I know there tend to be more girls in the bioengineering/biomedical engineering/biochemical engineering/biological engineering than other engineering disciplines. I guess the stereotype is true that females tend to go in the biology related field :)</p>
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<p>Think again. In my dept., at least, (GT ECE) it's 93% male. In CS, I think it's about 85% (I could be wrong about that one, though).</p>
<p>Interesting. So what engineering majors DO have a decent number of girls? Btw, even with that statistic, I know a lot of girls do go into CS.</p>
<p>At my school, EE and CS are ~90% guys.</p>
<p>Overall, engineering here has 79% guys.</p>
<p>Math and physics have more girls, about 35%.</p>
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<p>It depends on the person and school. Freshman year I worked a little bit with my friends on the floor; most of the assignments were easy enough for me to do on my own. Sophomore year when my major's first classes hit I had to work with my friends in order to get stuff done. By junior year I could do most of the homeworks on my own, but I'd still do study sessions since I had a lot of fun doing them.</p>
<p>the freshman class for my engineering school is 1/3 girls which is probably among the highest in the country by a large margin, take from that what you will</p>