I havent learned anything in college so far ( EE Junior)

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Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:42:30 +0000

Those A-Ha moments come when you do projects and you work on something for hours and then finally get it. I had to make a soda machine in my digital systems class, and it was pretty tough at times. Lots of Mux’s and switches, lots of control. Though once I got it it was great. We then had to program the machine in mips assembly, then had to recreate it on a FPGA and use Xilinx.

Though I was a CS student and all of this was not really my taste, but I still got a lot from it.

I suggest you start taking classes you like, things you want to learn. EE can be incredibly bland, which I why I switched to CS. Take some computer engineering courses instead, Microprocessor programming is incredibly challenging.

BTW I graduated and I still feel everyday that I simply am not good enough. Its a common feeling.

If there is one thing you get out of engineering school, it should be to acquire the ability to see a problem and derive quickly and precisely a solution to that problem. Dont worry about the specifics, they are not as important as you think. If when you go to a interview and you compete against a 4.0 from MIT and in-front of you lies a problem, the person with the better grades from the Top U doesn’t mean he is better at solving the problem at hand. It just means he has stored more info. Work on the problem solving, thats what will get you the job. Companies don’t hire data stores, they hire practical and critical thinkers who bring worth to the company. You don’t need a encyclopedic knowledge of engineering and its subsets to be a good engineer. Even on the PE and FE exams, you are given the formulas, you just need a basic idea of how to use them. Then logically deduce from that.