Difficulty of this major?

shahmuqqadar
Wed, 11 May 2005 13:07:28 +0000

You have to stay up to date with the material. Once you fall behind, it’s like swimming against a rip tide-it’s too hard to catch up to where you should be. You will find yourself spending 8-10 hrs a day on academic matters (classes + hw + review sessions), if not more at times. But when exams come, you’ll see that if u understood it when it was brought to you, all you need to do is practice problems. Final exams aren’t too much to worry about, since if you know how to do the lastest type of problems, you probably know most of everything else because engineering subjects are the type that each new material builds on the previous (like for a freshman Vector Mechanics and Statics class that I just finished on Monday, you probably need to remember how to do free body diagrams and rigid body diagrams in order to know how to solve trusses, frames, and machines).