Life as an engineering student?

justinmeche
Sat, 23 Jan 2010 13:12:51 +0000

If a social life is important to you, you will find a way to have one. I was not a social person, so most of my time was spent studying since I didn’t have plans to do much else and I was not a very sharp student. I had to work much harder than others to achieve the same results. It was really bad for the first 2 years but after transferring schools the burden got less.

During my freshman and sophomore years I remember staying up until 2am doing homework. After that I never stayed up past midnight. But now as a full-time engineer I feel I have less life outside of work than I did at college because I am away from home for 15 hours everyday work on a big project. 12 weeks down so far, 6 more to go.