difficultly of cs and engineering

Anteat3r
Wed, 11 May 2011 14:04:54 +0000

Engineering isn’t/wasn’t too difficult for me at UCI. Really, it just comes down to time management. Very few people study for 2-3 hours a day. In upper div, however, many people work on projects and do homework assignments for 6-10 hours a day outside of class. Most of the people who did/do this myself inclusive have not had any problems getting A’s in engineering courses and maintaining an overall high GPA.

Just imagine a 30 page individual project including calculations, appendices, a lot of writing, etc. Now imagine doing that over the course of a week consistently vs. doing that the night before. You can probably get a good sense of who is going to fail out vs. who is going to get an A. That’s just an example from say an upper div lab course. Of course, you will also have assignments/tests/quizzes from other classes on top of that weekly and work + research + social life if applicable hence the importance of time management.