<p>R**2, engineering is very demanding of course slots and you have a lot fewer options than most non-engineering schools. I imagine that the labs and such would in fact impact your ability to sanely schedule courses at the others of the Five Colleges, if at all. I started life as an Engineering major and in some ways I regret not having gotten a Clue earlier so that I would have been able to take more humanities and social science courses. Somehow it all worked out though.</p>