<p>I’m an Electrical engineering student in canada and I’m wondering what kinds of effects are involved with doing well in college.</p>
<p>Im just curious about how much information from university someone can retain while in the workforce and if this matters or not. Will i really have a hard time finding a job if i cant remember how to do a 3 page integration? </p>
<p>although i can understand the basics are needed, but someone such as myself who is lingering in the C average, i feel my technical skills are not that strong and i’d really like to know how this can affect me in my future career.</p>
<p>sorry I can’t help you but let me bump this up because it was starting to sink to the back pages of the board.
I’d help…but…I plan to be an English/Law major =)</p>
You won’t have a hard time finding a job because you can’t do a 3-page integral. You’ll have a hard time finding a job because you never could do 3-page integrals.</p>
<p>EE education is broad. What you specifically need to remember depends on what sub-field you go into. Someone working with RF is much more likely to need to do integrals then someone in digital design. So in one sense a lot of what you’re learning is un-needed; you just don’t know what part yet ;)</p>
<p>However when employers are hiring they look at your overall grades to understand how readily you’ll be able to learn the specific skills they need. How well you could learn in the past is a good guide to how well you’ll be able to learn in the future, no? Employers are not going to be fighting with each other to hire C-average students.</p>
<p>In fact, many employers have GPA cutoffs in order to get an on-campus interview. You could go down to your career center today and look at the listings (or past listings, since its so early in the current academic year) to see what employers coming to your college asked for.</p>