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<p>That has nothing to do with engineering. That has to do with the fact that I think you might benefit from seeing a therapist. That is not normal.</p>
<p>I think it’s the stereotype that engineers don’t have lives. Most students want to get drunk and party all the time, or still have a lot of time to themselves more so. A lot of people think that if they commit to engineering, they won’t be able to join Greek life or something. But it’s all about time management. If you can master time management, you can practically do everything you set your mind too.</p>
<p>how does one quote a post?</p>
<p>I just learned it not long ago, good question though!</p>
<p>Simple quote: (quote) Your quote goes in here (/quote)</p>
<p>Quote with the name of the author (quote= Bschoolwiz) Your quote goes in here (/quote)</p>
<p>Replace the parentheses signs with brackets though :)</p>
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<p>What Izzie said. And my son is a sophomore. And his dad and I are physicians. That ish is CRAY!</p>
<p>Engineering isn’t that hard if you want to devote your life to it. I have a 3.89 GPA, but I barely have any free time. I spend so much time on school work that I don’t understand how people have the time or the urge to learn on their own during school. On breaks I look at material for my own learning, but not during school.</p>
<p>Geez, some of you are nuts. If you manage your time properly, there is plenty of time for leisure and good grades.</p>
<p>I don’t pretend to know engineering., but I do know ‘‘nuts’’.</p>
<p>’‘If you manage your time properly, there is plenty of time for leisure and good grades.’ '</p>
<p>Not sure if properly, plenty, and good mean just one thing.</p>
<p>I am taking Classical Physics I this Summer, it is a 6 credit hour class, 8 weeks long.Last night I had a nightmare about this class.</p>
<p>I remember waking up in the middle of the night last semester thinking about my Chemistry class, totally stressed out and NO, I am not a slacker. </p>
<p>Most Engineering students have had similar experiences but they don’t talk about these things because they are proud.</p>
<p>I know a guy who used to come across as a “know it all”- “Oh that is easy!”, after I got to know him better, I finally understood that he was struggling worse than I was but he had a way of hiding it.</p>
<p>Today, we had a 3 hour long Physics lab- I studied my ass off last night because I did not want to be the “dumbass” who gets lost in the middle of the lab and has no idea what is going on.</p>
<p>I contributed to our group, answered most of the questions but honestly there were times when I had no idea what was going on- I just did not want people to see it.</p>
<p>Why do people fear Engineering so much? Because of crap like this!</p>
<p>That is exactly why they put you in lab groups. You will absolutely never know all the answers in life, not just in engineering. They put you in groups so that you can reinforce each other based on the group discussion and share your strengths with the group while benefiting in your weak areas from it. Your story isn’t a reason to be afraid of engineering or one of the system failing. That is a story of group work doing its job.</p>
<p>Or if you want, just keep the pity party going in here.</p>
<p>In comparison to engineering, I have heard this before about the trend towards grading humanities classes easier at the college level.</p>
<p>“There are many factors that contribute to grade inflation and quantitative assessments of causes will likely prove to be inconclusive. An oft-cited reason for grade inflation in the 1960’s was the kindness of faculty members toward students trying to avoid the military draft during the Vietnam War.”</p>
<p>[National</a> Trends in Grade Inflation, American Colleges and Universities](<a href=“http://www.gradeinflation.com%5DNational”>http://www.gradeinflation.com)</p>
<p>The content for engineering classes were not hard, but the discipline required is. With 6 courses per semester and all six of them have labs, assignments, 2 midterms and a final, it is very hard to do well in alot of them.</p>
<p>TBH, I only dare to go to the school year end party in the first year and that is almost the stupidest thing that I ever done; our engineering faculty made sure all exams starts right after the day the party is held whereas alot of other faculties either made in class finals or dont even have final exams (only 2 out of six of my non-engineer courses has a final).</p>
<p>First, taking 6 classes, with 6 labs in the same semester? The mind boggles …</p>
<p>Engineering is hard in comparisons to business, communications, and the humanities. Congrats if it’s easy for you….it’s not for most college grads. In fact, it’s a bit condescending to imply it’s easy. </p>
<p>Trying explaining a free body diagram (or even the right-hand rule) to your typical arts major…no, wait, don’t…they really don’t care. Just buy them a beer.</p>
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That caught my attention, too. I can understand 3 classes each having labs…or (unwantedly) 4 classes each with labs. </p>
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I’m sure partying could be factored into the equation. Perhaps study ahead of time and not go all out the night before the exam?</p>
<p>In my opinion, one of the most challenging things about Engineering is being able to understand things conceptually. </p>
<p>I barely survived my first semester because I did not know what that meant- I was trying so hard to memorize all the steps to solving a problem-without understanding it conceptually- In Chemistry, it translated to below average performance.</p>
<p>I am taking Physics I this Summer and I am loving it because I feel like now I am finally able to approach problem solving conceptually-once you understand that, you are going to enjoy your classes a lot more and your performance will improve.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, there are many engineers who go through 4 years of engineering school and never learn to understand things conceptually- I am nowhere near where I want to be but I feel like the way I am approaching problem solving this Summer is much more effective than what I was doing it last semester.</p>
<p>As a result, I am really enjoying this Physics course and I am doing much better already.</p>
<p>I hear this a lot, about “conceptualizing” rather than memorizing, but what exactly does it mean??</p>
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The human brain is pretty bad at remembering facts, and honestly it’s not that helpful because it limits scope.
There is usually just a few key ideas that explain all of the facts you need to know. If you understand the ideas, rather than try to memorize the facts, you’ll be able to do much more with much less effort.</p>
<p>Why do people fear engineering so much? Probably for the same reasons engineers fear writing classes.</p>
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<p>Loathe would be my word of choice. That said, I have a sneaking suspicion that writing reports are gping to be an enormous part of the job :-/</p>