My Assumptions about College Engineering Vs. My Experience
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This video will cover what I expected as in incoming engineering student vs what I actually encountered with the major. I personally majored in electrical engineering and went to school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. Obviously everyone's stories will be different, but this is what I went through.
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Engineering School defined: The professor gives you 20 hours of homework on a Friday and says, "Have a good weekend!"
@brandon that's where I stand right now. I'm going to keep trying.
@brandon wolf wow goodluck bro. Hope your relationship with your gf continues and grows stronger♥️
@Tyler DO NOT listen to this guy. This guy has the generic view that the benefits of a good degree far outweigh the repercussions of getting a loan. From both a psychological and economic standpoint, loans are not worth it unless you're either going to the world top 5 schools or are a try-hard with a high pain threshold. To think that a 4 yr bachelors or whatever uni you go to would define your 40-50 year long career is absurdly short-sighted. Do yourself a favour and don't go into 80k in debt.
I once had a professor ask how our Spring Break went. We said, "ugh!" Her response was, "You didn't relax and get some sleep? That's what Spring Break is for." We had to remind her, "If you wanted us to get some sleep and relax, you shouldn't have assigned homework during the break."
My thermo prof just asked our class what we’re doing over the weekend knowing damn well we have a thermo test on Monday 😂😂😂
Learning more just makes you realize how little you know.
facts
Not unless you're already dumb.
#dunningkruger
Nice paradox
@@AWSim It's the Dunning-Kruger effect.
And that’s the high I look for in learning. Nothing gives me a bigger education boner than learning something hard and discovering you have much harder shit to learn. I find happiness in finding out I’m ignorant. This is my life goal; learn more and be happy.
When I hire newly-graduated engineers to work under me, I'm the one who has to break the news to them: "You're going to feel like an idiot. You're going to wonder if you even went to school. You're going to feel hardly useful at all-- and all of that is ok. If I ask you to do something-- that means it's possible. Use your resources and figure it out. I'll be reviewing and helping with everything you do. I don't expect you to always succeed, but I will only be disappointed if you don't try. You're going to be doing this for 2000 hours per year now. I guarantee you'll get better." It's such a great career field. I'm 20 years in now and I feel luckier today than I ever have.
Sounds like a fantastic boss. If only all boss are not aggressive and hard headed people
That's because these are Engineering Science graduates.
I am a second-year Electrical Engineering student at ASU and when I joined one of the labs as an intern in my freshman year, I was dumbfounded by how little I knew. Every day I would go home on the verge of having a mental breakdown because the wafer samples weren't coming out the way that I wanted them to. But after being there for 9 months and actually getting a position there, I learned that I won't know everything to do with this field right after and I am glad that I learned that in the beginning so I can start learning slowly over time. I hope that one day that I could reach that level of having so many years behind me it really is an amazing field to study/work in.
I wish I work for a boss like you.
thank you, as an engineering student i found this very reassuring
Expectations: Class today we are going to build a robot!
Reality: Here is a math textbook. Test is next week..... BITCH
@@TheBrickGuy7939 There is another name, it is sometimes called "applied science."
@@TheBrickGuy7939 If you're REALLY designing things - and not just plugging a bunch of parts together like Lego toys - you will NEED the math and equations.
This sorta happened in my Calc 2 class. Every class I had had up to that point, the professor spent the first day on the syllabus and curriculum plan.
This time, the professor went over it for 10 minutes, then immediately started deriving equations.
So fucken TRUE
@@SirLightfire I’m going to a small community college, and I have the same profesor for calc 2 as I did calc one, and he does 3 and dif equations as well. I went in to the class, he read off how the percentages of hw tests and finals work then jumped into the class.
Don't know why this just popped up in my recommended videos but I wanted to give my thoughts to anyone who may see this. As a 4th year engineering student I can say that this video is extremely spot on. I feel like any engineering degree has the reputation of being this extremely difficult and time-consuming task. Although it can be (at points), it really isn't as bad as people make it out to be. If you manage your time well, get into a routine (this is important) and don't allow your grades to take a mental toll on you (failing a midterm is not the end of the world) it becomes something that is very doable and fulfilling all at the same time. It's perfectly normal to have doubts about yourself during the duration of your undergrad but a good rule of thumb is that if you're struggling, then there is a 99% chance everybody else in your class is too. Talk to your classmates and work through problems together. Degrees of this nature are much easier and less stressful when you are navigating them with a group of people compared to going solo. I hope this helps anybody who has chance to read this :)
I appreciate it very much, if all goes as planned, im starting school in the fall in Engineering, not sure what branch of engineering yet
@@edgarcontreras1905
I'm at the end of my fourth year in college, and I still have about two years left of core engineering curriculum to get through.
I started out in 2017 going into game development, found out I didn't like how unstable and demanding that industry was, and then changed to Mechanical Engineering in my second semester.
I didn't take any prerequisite classes to get into my major up until then, so from then until winter 2020, I was trying to get as many necessary classes done along with other important ones to get into my program.
So, I started my Mech. Engineering program in the last semester of my junior year, and I had to take off of the Fall semester in 2020 because of serious personal reasons.
Now I'm at the end of my fourth year, taking only Diff. Eq. along with Literature, a class about American Regional Foods, and Gerontology. I'm cramming the work for those classes into two days a week, so I can have the other five for work on my personal projects.
I'm not really passionate about Mechanical Engineering, but I enjoy the problem-solving work. I was seeking a stable career path when I chose it, but it's not something that I was interested in before college.
I'm also working solo the vast majority of the time, so that's a big oof.
Just felt compelled to talk about this
Its fine, any detail is appreciated. About time wise, do you have any free time or is it all work and no time for social activities?
@@edgarcontreras1905
I believe that a lot of the time, you do have time for social activities.
I'm kind of on an extreme end of the scale, since I never joined a club or had a study group, I just never got in to any of them, so I did most of my work alone.
I suppose if you join a study group for a class or a group of friends all on a similar career direction, (or just friends hanging out studying), then you'd likely get a decent amount of social interaction there.
The thing, is, my school is about 70% commuters, which includes me, so after class, and after doing school work, I would drive 30 mins home to my family, which meant I wasn't going back to a dorm room with friends or meeting new people in a more permanent way.
I found that professors have a lot of sway on the amount of work you do. In early 2019, I took Physics and Calc II together. I was finding myself unable to finish work for both classes at the same time, and ended up having to drop Calc II for later and focus on Physics.
In general, classes with labs can really eat up your time, but I think the Calc II professor had a poorly structured class, at least for me. Every week, he would switch around our seating arrangements, (It's not very normal in my school to have strict seating), to be in different groups, and we'd have to turn in one copy of homework per group. This wasn't helpful for me, and his workload was too involved for both classes to stay.
I use the rate my professor website to check how professors are before I choose them. A professor can make or break a course depending on the student taking it, so having one that's approachable and doesn't unnecessarily flood you with work is really good.
I've had a professor who made a lecture-based economics class very fun and interesting just through his character and how he taught, so they're important.
Depending on how you choose your classes, I think it's possible most of the time to have enough time for social activities.
That was a concern, taking engineering and just inside doing work and studying my years away
Right on time, I start mechanical engineering next week Lol
haha best of luck with the new school year!
MajorPrep Thank you, I love your videos by the way!
How is it so far then?
how did it go
not as many girls as you thought huh?
Me, a Cal Poly student, 7 minutes into the video : This sounds a lot like Cal Poly. **checks description** aha!
As an engineering student, I agree with this video wholeheartedly.
As a mechanical engineering major you learn there’s just a ton of different paths and electives. It can be a little overwhelming, but it gives you a ton of options and focuses to really get what you want out of your degree.
How tough was the math particularly for mechanical engineering at first ?
@@chopslick1000 You have to get calculus down well, but honestly once you get about halfway through your calculus it all just sort of clicks. Some people I know had a tough time starting calculus, but once you get into it, it pretty much all seems easier.
@@completelyuselessphysics8630 thank you :)
Completely Useless Physics Calc 2 is Harder then 1 and 3 diff q is weird also
How long does it take to complete a mechanical engineering degree
As a engineering senior myself, this is the most down to earth, accurate description video I've ever watched.
Great overview. Pretty much sums up the reality of Engineering. In my career I have moved across many disciplines and all the foundations have served me well. I now have an extensive library of Engineering texts! That's how Engineering is. Be prepared to keep learning !!!!
You really get to the core of what people want to know about, unlike a lot of other educational youtubers who just give a very broad overview. You genuinely helped me out in deciding my major, thanks.
This pretty accurately describes my experiences. Most of what was said was true for me and will most likely be true for prospective students. The further along in school, the more fun and exiting projects you get to work on.
"You don't come out of college an expert" applies not just to Bachelor's degrees, but also to professional courses which (in the US) typically give you a Doctorate.
For anyone in CS, don't fall under the spell of becoming arrogant because everyone else in your class arrogant and condescending. Obviously not everyone is arrogant in CS, but if you find people who aren't, make friends with them because they are struggling with you and if you scratch their back they will scratch yours.
wow i wonder if ill meet people like this.
I love your content, I'm going into electrical engineering myself and everything you post is perfect. Thank you.
Zero all nighters for me in college - EE. Went to the library EVERY school-night until 11pm+, then to the bar (NYC so late closings) Had a high GPA, learned to not take 8am classes after freshman year. Best way to get an A on an exam is to get a good night sleep, stayed in those nights.
Yep, getting a good amount of sleep has such an impact on learning and retention. I have a pretty strict nighttime routine now, and have to work less hard to understand things compared to those who seem to always be up all night studying.
Thank you, this calmed down my panic attack.
You sir have the best channel by far for anyone trying to gain confidents in the engineering world.Thank you Zach Star for the enlightenment.
Thanks for the comment!
as an engineering major (or an undergrad student in general) these are all pretty much common sense to me prior to going to college, though i know some people didn't have a clue at all and that made the struggle worse. so this video is very informative and factual, at least for an engineering major. if you're going to college soon, this is gonna help you a lot
Wow. Thanks for the information.
I am starting my undergrad in Electronics, Information and Communication Engineering this December and was looking for somebody else's experience in Engineering school.
Now I may have an idea about what to expect.
Thanks a lot for the vid
THANK YOU SO MUCH. I want to major in mechanical engineering and your videos help me a lot .
Thank you for making this video. I am considering going into civil or electrical engineering when I go to college next year so this was a nice heads up of what's to come.
Glad it helped! Thanks for the comment.
Same
Ooh, thanks so much for this video! I know it was posted almost 4 years ago now, but it's really helpful for me! :D
I decided to learn about engineering on my own. That started about a decade ago but I nearly have all the equipment to start building prototypes.
One of them is for a powered paraglider that reduces the size of the units' overall dimensions by up to 200%
That was amazing I wish I saw this sooner! Can totally agree though now that i'm in engineering
Thank you bro, very helpful
I’m about a year and a half into a computer science degree and I can confirm that I work over 40 hrs a week easily but if I stay on top of my work and sleep schedule as much as possible it is manageable even with some time on the weekends to relax for a while. Social life can be kinda hard to maintain tho and I’m certainly starting to see how that happens just by the sheer time investment it takes to stay afloat in class. The most redeeming quality about cs though is that I don’t have to force myself to sit down and code usually, because it is something fun like coding a game, and it is so rewarding to create something that functions, so that 40 hrs of work a week doesn’t feel quite as extreme as it actually maybe is.
KRYMauL dude you have no idea. I go to notre dame and the university reqs plus college reqs are crazy and we are taking extra required theos and philos, plus writing, history, and art credits. The key is making sure those extra classes are as easy as possible so that they don’t take up too much time
Yo Mechanical Engineering is hard in that aspect, no quick rewards. One project takes so much money as and Hella time
Completely agree To me, even if it takes 40 hours, my cs class work is so much more fun and even sometimes easier than the other classes, like English.
Very true
Halfway through undergrad...Scary how spot on it is.
It's amazing how similar our experiences are, and I'm from a very different country.
The fact that Professors actually followed the syllabus to any degree surprised me because that was NOT my experience prior to that. Learned that lesson real quick!
Another amazing video! I think it's great to get to know more about you and what you thought of college. Personally, I'm really scared of what will happen, because I'm already in my junior year and still haven't decided if I really want to pursue engineering (and which specific field). One of the main reasons is that I have no knowledge of programming, but since you said you also didn't have any I'm feeling a little bit more confident hehe.
Also, sorry for asking, but could you do a video talking about the chemistry majors and its subfields? I know you have a chemical engineering video, but I would like to know more about the other chemistry related majors.
Thank you! Yeah I'll keep putting out a video of my experiences every now and then. In fact I'm thinking of doing one on my starting salary as an engineer and breaking down my finances for people to see maybe what an engineer could afford. But I do have a video on chemistry careers but I can definitely get more in the future.
I'm a high school freshman in a pre-engineering course and I'm a little stressed about how quickly the difficulty of classes can escalate
Damn I live in a different country, I am surprised how similar this is to my experience almost identical, nice video
Yep! I am from Brazil and fully agree, almost identical.
Can you please do a video(or videos) about careers in life sciences? Like biochemistry, genetics, bioinformatics, neuroscience etc.
The number one aspect to consider when completing an engineering degree is time management. If you are doing a full course load, 6 courses per semester, you need to figure out what each assignment and test is worth, and how much of your time you're willing to devote to it. You literally cannot do every single thing to the best of your ability, and study, and remain sane. Pick the ones that are worth the most marks, or are going to teach you the most.
Also, don't be afraid to ask for help, no one in the real world works completely by themselves.
Engineering school: do a bunch of bookwork. After school: make stuff
I really don't know why people in engineering are so lazy in "general ed." Easy classes that just bump up your average grade for the tiniest effort.
Personally I just didn't care enough. Was more of just boredom than laziness cause I put in a lot of effort to my harder engineering classes.
MajorPrep yeah now that I'm half way through my filter semester i understand.
Hahaha.
Currently in cc and general ed doesnt count toward your transfer gpa so alot of us just get a C so it counts as we passed the class
Because we don't care about those. We choose Engineering not because it was easy, but partially because it's a challenge.
I failed ENC1102 and physics lab and still have to take it yet i got A's in Linear, controls, Electronics etc.
I saw this video a year ago and though oh this looks nice. Now after having my end of 1st semester exams starting tomorrow, I can see how each and every point in this video is so accurate and true.
Awesome! Thank you
Love how you talk about labs. I just finished my second year of computer engineering and have made 3 actual circuits because the pandemic cancelled in-person labs for most of my degree.
Also thank god I'm in Canada so I don't have any """" required"""" homework. You just fail if you don't do the practice questions. It's all replaced with labs. Also lol everyone fails tests and sometimes it isn't curved.
This is super useful!!!
i've had 2 quarters where I pretty much had to pull an all-nighter once a week before our psets were due. this was not a matter of choice or procrastination, but it was very very very specific to those 2 classes I took. one was the equivalent of E&M and one was an honors probability class with very long proofs :D
Agreed. I took: MATLab coding, Diff EQ, Statics and some other classes I can't remember because all I remember of that semester is that by the last third, I was pulling 3 all nighters a week. It was so bad that I would work all night, my alarm would go off and I'd be like, "Shit! I have to get to my first class!"
I had to request a deployment to Afghanistan just to wind down from that semester.
Another combat tour getting shot at? Nothing more relaxing after that school shit!
This was my Junior year. I ended up not doing the homework for one class (losing a grade point) so I could pass another. There were lots of tradeoffs that year.
I am a procrastinator unfortunately and that has actually caused me to struggle a bit more.
(I’m an engineer)
This is a very similar situation I going through, a new to add is to make networks not “friends” everyone wants someone to be useful and having good trades. Example: is doing a lab report by yourself and your group providing good information about teachers and old test papers that teachers don’t change very much.
Don’t procrastinate it’s not good, I usually stay at university for 8 hours and treat it as a job
Some weeks I go to the library on Sunday and catch up on some HW or labs not done yet for a few hours
Go to library it’s more efficient than home
Community college was more stressful than university
During the time at community college I procrastinate all the time being stressed out all the time about tests and lab reports
Now I finish all reports and hw and don’t have to stress about tests only do hw and extra study for review
Finals are starting in two weeks I am prepared for them
👍
I’m going into biomedical engineering in a few months. Thanks for this video.
I am also an electrical engineer and it's worth to see your videos
My experience so far is similar, realizing that everything is wayyy more interdisciplinary than you think. I thought mechanical engineering was literally making mechanical arms and shit out of metal. I had no idea that mechanical engineers also do materials science or even nanotech
As a mechanical engineering graduate from Mississippi State University, I can say that the experiences are generally the same. I would like to stress that completing a full co-op rotation while I'm college would greatly increase your chances of getting hired post graduation.
How much do u make?
I have a BSEE with a focus in wave transmission and reception. The second semester of junior year is where you earn your degree. At least in my program, this was when we took the beef of our EE classes. Fundamentals of electro optics (semiconductor physics), Microelectronics 2 (MOSFETs), Digital Signal Processing (taking Laplace transforms into the discrete math world), Passive Microwave engineering (Designing passive (linear) high frequency circuits), and a gen ed. Holy smokes was it tough, but it was really cool stuff every day in class. If you are nervous going into engineering, just take a deep breath and take it one day at a time. Anyone can do it, you just have to stay focused and you will be all good.
As I’m finishing freshman year, most of what you said, I agree with.
Labs are also a pain because the work-to-credit hours ratio isn’t there. You can put in tons of hours only to get a b-ish. Most people I know settle for B’s and C’s because their time is better spent working for other classes, as that would have more of an effect on their GPA.
(I go to A&M College Station, if anyone is curious)
great video
Probably going to go into structural engineering in 1 year, thanks for the preparation
can you make a video to guide someone who wants to be an engineer but can't decide which branch is more suitable for him/her?
Saleh Mahdi he already made like 10 of them
I mean a video which compares them all at once , or such video not possible?
Saleh Mahdi yeah one of his video compares all of them except for petroleum engineering
Daniel Mankamyer which one? put a link for it please
Depending on what country youre in, i think most eng degrees have a common first year where you do classes from a few disciplines
I had to do
Eng maths 1 and 2,
Electrical systems,
Eng mechanics,
Eng programming,
Eng materials,
And 2 communication units.
I also had to do an elective because programming was a "half unit" ie there wasnt much contact hours and it was worth half the credits.
I study at curtin uni in perth and am wnjoying the shit out of my mechatronics degree
I will head into my last year of electrical engineering in the fall. Basically everything he said was spot on although for my degree I only needed 6 complementary studies not 11 (thank God I hated all of them). Plus you only got to pick 2 the other 4 were mandatory (ethics, econ, coms and a tech).
Also proud to say I never pulled an all nighter for school in my life
In Finland, all engineering students get admitted automatically to the master's program. Because there are no prerequisites- since, in order to get admitted you have to take integral and differential calculus in high school, you get to finish the bachelor's degree in three years and the masters in two( I've heard stories about some who've finished both in less than three)
Also, we don't have the language and social science classes. We have some communication and business classes but they are kept to a minimum.
Just thought if someone is interested in knowing about the finish education system, I am applying to the school of electrical engineering to study BioIT.
We have a hands-on education in our UAS schools( University of applied sciences) which lasts four years and doesn't include a masters portion, it's mostly directed at students who enjoy hands-on work in engineering, but the curriculum also includes a year of maths and physics.
How much is the cost?
BRIDGE It’s free in Scandinavia. All you pay for are the books but you can just download pdf’s
This sounds a lot like it is here in the Netherlands but here it does take at least 3+2 years to get your degrees
Differential Equations in high school! Woah!
@@ggdharris3626 I'm currently in my first year of engineering in Belgium. We also had differential equations in high school (not all schools have those however) When we started learning about differential equation in university, I realized how simple high school was :)
in my very first year of engineering currently, I struggled a lot in my first semester due to being all online cause of covid. Where I failed every single paper. I have restarted with a fresh mindset and work ethic, and have passed every single med term just got to try smash the finals. I know its going to be very challenging few years. But I am going to try my absolute hardest and try walk out with that degree in engineering! Thanks the videos help a lot!
How are you doing now?
@@be4913 I’m curious as well
In mechanical engineering we pretty much all took the same classes at my school. The only time it branched off was for one class in which you had like 3 to choose from.
I got my MS and PhD in engineering, as well as being a TA and an adjunct professor. I was also a mechanical engineer in industry for 25 years. This is a very accurate presentation.
Is branching into academia as an engineering student an easy task ? I heard that, sometimes, it can be game of thrones in that field
@@damilolaowolabi6716 Academia is always a game of thrones. STEM has it a little easier than the humanities, but it's still not easy. You need to be prepared to chase positions for a few years, moving anywhere you can get them, building up your skills and document everything new that you learn so that when you do get that coveted tenure track role, you are prepared. Also, get experience writing grants if this path interests you.
Economics class... I just brided my teacher, gave him some pictures of him and a student on a hotel, HE WAS SO HAPPY that all aced that semester!
I started intro to engineering design and GOD DAMN did I underestimate the amount of work.
Don't use God's name in vain please
I'm also in electrical engineering and am currently doing my thesis in electrochemistry. This sounds like a horrible match, until you understand that uni teaches you to learn stuff on your own, so theoretically you are able to work in any field, because you are able to familiarise yourself with the theory.
Yea as a software engineer I can confirm the general knowledge part. It's been five years and I still have no real networking exp but I can code anything self contained
Although workload will be different for everyone here’s mine:
I am a third year mechanical engineering major at Texas A&M. As of right now I’m taking 14 hours. Some weeks I have ~5hrs total of homework/studying and some weeks i spend just about every hour (50+) studying. On average I spend 30-40 hours a week studying and doing homework. Chegg is your friend, but use it wisely, understand why they got the answer and take it with a grain of salt. I still have time to be involved with organizations, games, gym etc. but there’s much less free time than community college and high school.
computer entineering '22 here, Gig em 👍🏼
I would die to get into A&M
I'm also a junior, but I am in MXET.
Also, Whoop!
hook em
Am I an engineering student? No
Do I plan on studying engineering? No
Did I watch this entire video? Yes
nice!
This video give me some clues about engineering courses , it's very challenging indeed . I think stem majors require lots of work and at least a bit of passion to comprehend , unmotivated people can't keep up with the demands . I might go for engineering degree when I get a business degree and confident in my knowledge . Just don't want to waste thousand dollars on college then quit due to being overwhelmed . 😁
This sounds pretty similar to how by CS degree works. But I just want to add that the balance between theory and practicals really shifted after first year. 1st Year was mainly theory. Not only CS theory, but also some classes in maths, stats and physics. Our practicals were really just the basics of programming. But in second year we focused a lot more on practicals. They became much more complicated and there were far more of them.
The similarities to my current situation is impeccable....
As someone who has had an engineering degree for six years now, I can safely say that the best use of my degree is proving to recruiters that I have good quant skills.
I did psychology in college but now I want to learn electrical engineering. I’ve been thinking about the LEAP program at Boston university which is a masters for non engineering majors. Only Uni I’ve read that has something like it. I’m a bit nervous and am excited to seek guidance
I'm currently going to school for HVAC and most of the time we spend is on electrical and circuits. I currently have a gpa of 4.0 but I am almost 30 with a background in computer networking and programming from the military and kinda have a hobby of building control circuit boards for furnaces and climate control. I sometimes kick myself for not going into engineering.
1995 Cerritos college I majored in electronics, you are right. The field is huge. I remove the tzero. It was the first electric car that was based on Tesla. We made a prototype using a go cart. I had so much fun. Today, I work on pics and 360voltage. My biggest fear is being left handed. I been shocked. I am still learning every day. Downey California
I used to make complicated mouse traps at the cabin when I was young, made one where the mouse walks into a soup can with a hole in the top, knocks over a stick, stick releases rope, and a dart drops from a foot over the soup can. Now I'm applying for mechanical engineering
There is a lot of Maths involved.
I remember studying about 40hr/week or more and I generally was 3.0ish when I was in university. I struggled hard with all the work, but I found that an engineering career is rather rewarding especially when you get a project completed. Also, engineering school teaches you to set your hubris aside admit your errors and instead of beating yourself up about it, you learn from it.
Why am I watching this I already graduated with a Computer Science degree last year, and how does it still mostly ring true to me?
watching this while i have 3 HW to be done Saturday🥲 but electical engineering is good subject to go through
Did you have to give a lot of presentations? I’m about to enter junior year in Mechanical engineer and haven’t really had to do any presentations yet thankfully.
+Procel91 no I did not have to do many. Some of course for my speech class. Then had a few for my senior project class but that's pretty much it.
If you need help with those, join the military. By the end of your first enlistment, you'll be holding briefings to Colonels and Generals and it'll be no sweat.
Just graduated with my Electrical Engineering Degree. Honestly, this video is perfectly spot on and helps to ease graduating engineers with imposter syndrome.
dude nice, im barely going into college this month for engineering. Any tips to stay on top of my game?
@@speedangel7315 how are you doing and maybe you can tell me whats wrong
Im about to be 14 and about to start highschool and am very serious about becoming and engineer and have soent aeound 5 days in total time of researching engineering so thank you for helping me what i should expect
I'm a semester away from finishing my computer engineering degree. Just had the worst semester ever. I took 5 classes, 4 of which had labs, and 4 had final projects. I had 3 final exams on one day. The most brutal part about it was, I had a class that ended at 9pm and the next day, I had to be in class at 8am, with a 1 hour commute in any direction. Also, I had classes all day, so I was on campus most days for 12+ hours. Really glad it's over, never doing that shit again.
CH1PSET hey man just wanted to say im proud of you. I dont know you, probably never will. But you fucking deserve that degree, kudos to you. The majority wouldve gave up
Youthful foolishness: we've all done it at least once!
its very much similar here
I'm from Nepal and studying computer engineering in Kathmandu University. I feel good after knowing it.
I’m a third year chemical engineer student at Michigan tech and I have had weeks were I was in the library for >90hs. I am very involved in engineering projects outside of class so that’s why that number is so high. it definitely varies by major and by class load and by school.
Thanks!
Apprenticeship work is deffinently a good route to go if you're more hands on and want to get some money in ur pocket.
oh god i feel like i’m gonna go in on my first day having no idea what i’m going to do with my life
Wrapping up my associates in engineering, hopefully I can land a job with my two year degree
Great video, i just started my 3rd year in electrical engineering. I was wondering did you ever have days where u didnt feel like studying or when you felt like u were nothing compared to your peers in practical and theoretical knowledge.
I heard that you should look only at yourself and not others, because there will always be someone better than you, i mean, i do find motivation sometimes by seeing someone being better than me,but most people just get mad at themselves and don't use that anger to work more and harder. :) i assume that it's common to feel like that when you don't have much confidence.
I absolutely had days where I did not feel like studying. In fact I had weeks where I was just so lazy and got very little done. But no I didn't have the feeling of feeling like nothing compared to peers, I try not to compare myself too much to other people even though we all do at times. I personally have a huge interest in math, science, and engineering and put in a lot of effort to my major classes though so my grades were pretty good in college (regardless of the fact that I had those lazy days lol).
same with IT, I thought that Networking was going to be something small but it's like looking at a evolutionary path of a small cell organism to human beings, my goodness how I was wrong and they really pushed that expensive CISCO stuff on me when I just wanted to hit the ground running, they could have taught us Juniper and said "Juniper and CISCO are similar, here are some documentations to know the difference" and that would have taught us adaptability which sadly isn't really taught in schools these days
At U of M most courses were curved. Some heavily. I was getting a 40% in my programming class before the curve, and after ended up with a Solid 'C' in the class. The worst part was they didn't tell us are curve adjusted grade real time, so often we would have no idea how we were doing in the class.
Something I didn't realize when I signed up for classes was that a class with a lab was really like 2 seperate classes. Some times you'd end up with homework in both parts. On top of that some labs would require enormous amounts of time to complete, eating into time you could be working or studying for other classes.
Cal Poly (and honestly a lot of the cal state schools) has a different education philosophy than many other universities. It is more focused on real world application than theory. GO MUSTANGS!!!
Going there in the fall for Aerospace Engineering! Go Mustangs!
In my expirence, i spent a TON more time studying in the mechanics courses (e.g. dynamics, fluid mechanics, etc..) than any of my actual major courses (Bioengineering). we applied those theories in the major courses but the classes weren't nearly as intense. spent more time applying it to real-life applications through labs and projects. it was actually much more enjoyable than the math and mechanics grind
I am thinking about being a Mechanical Engineering major so hopefully this video helps
I took extra college classes in middle school and high school (dual credit) in hopes it would save me some time so I wont have to take it in college. Most of the classes I took didnt count except for the 2 english classes and economics class I took. I kinda feel like my summers in middle school were wasted as I spent 4 summers in a program that offers free college classes. But none of them were useful.
6:00 and at my school it isn't even consistent between classes
I am a Freshman Electrical Engineer and I plan to follow Robotics and I study, give or take, 70 hours per week. I agree with your opinion. It has to do with what your limits are. After how much time do you get tired etc. Awesome video.
Imma have to call cap on that one buddy
My major problem with an engineering degree is I have a great deal of trouble with symbolic math. When I saw a page of symbols for a host of variables followed by a bunch of ever complex equations my mind kind of froze.
Take the simplest equation for instance. F = MA well force = mass times acelleration. First you have to figure out what F really means. It means shove. Then M. M is not the weight of something. It is inherent in the being of something from a proton to a galaxy. A is acelleration which is how quickly something is gaining Velocity. Notice that Time is not mentioned in F=MA. Nor is speed or direction or Velocity.
So you would have to know what the meanings of F=MA really were before the equation made sense.
F = something that causes Acelleration
M = Inherent property of physical object
A = change in Velocity over Time
T = Difficult question but we will use the difference between then and now
V = movement at a single speed in a single direction
S = Speed = movement over time
D = Direction = line of displacement
So F = MA contains a lot more information than is obvious. There are equations that use most of the English letters and half the Greek letters in the same equation. Then there is algebra?
So the brick you just dropped is being acellerated by the force of gravity down until it is stopped by your shoe. The stopping part is negative acelleration.
Damn, this is so so different from my college in India. Yours is quite fun, mine is way more dumb and makes no sense :'(. Also, that might be because my stream is different (I'm doing Mechanical Engineering at the moment and haven't chosen a specialization yet).
Senior Civil/Water Resources engineering student, my experience has been almost identical, except I had to take less GE classes.
I was getting nervouse thinking how an i gonna be an engineer watching the video. Then i realised im on my senior year for mechanical engineering.
Im studying at a&m kville and i have to agree with alot of what you said. God i hate labs for the reason you get 1 credit for 3 or 4 hours or work.
Haha xd I am going to a technical high school and it's the same like this can't wait for the same thing in college
Are you from croatia?
we had instead 4 hour labs were you rarely finish in time because they cream in as much as they can into it