UF honors program

GatorEng23
Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:22:55 +0000

Most engineering students, to satisfy their honors course requirements, take an honors version of calculus or physics . Supposedly, it is harder, but it really isn’t that different from taking the regular calculus or physics sequence. The other honors courses are pretty interesting, like “magic in the 18th century.” But do they really serve an advantageous purpose for grad school? Not really. They are more just to learn some interesting things while in college, to divert away from the traditional course material, so that you can have a more open mind.

Once you complete your required courses, you go into the engineering program with everyone else. There is no honors
engineering program and there are no honors engineering courses. So as an engineering major, there really is no advantage to the program. Your engineering professors and fellow classmates will not care that you were in the honors program.

I, however, would still recommend it because of Hume Hall and all the little perks such as early registration.