Failures of a Second Year ChE Student

PickOne1
Mon, 28 Dec 2015 23:37:07 +0000

Seek help for your depression. You need to regroup and see that there is more to life than this program and this college and to start biting off manageable chunks to attain your dreams.

If possible, I would move home, seek medical attention, and try to take at most one or two of the classes you did poorly this semester in again. Focus on just one or two classes, study harder and smarter, attend study sessions. If money is an issue, maybe just work an easy job and take at most one class.

Engineering is a very hard major and trying to just force yourself to complete it in 4 years is very unrealistic for many people. Big flagship universities seem to just push people to keep banging their heads on the walls, with no real change and the same outcome until the student leaves the school or transfers into another major.

You also have to decide how many years and how much effort you are willing to dedicate to an engineering degree. It will likely take you more years and a considerable amount more effort than you have put in to date …

and there are other majors and other life paths … you are young and have a lot of options today.