<p>I will be starting EE in 07 fall. I am soooo confused! i want to know what happens the first day? Do the teachers check student’s preparation for the first class? Is it crowed the first day?</p>
<p>You just go to class, professor usually just hands out the syllabus, talks about the course, and may briefly start introducing the material.</p>
<p>DONT THEY check to see if they placed you in the correct class?</p>
<p>What do you mean by “check”? They most certainly are not going to give you a surprise test on which you must do well or else you are kicked out of the class. This is college. They are not going to baby you. You pick the courses. If you or your adviser screwed up your placement then, simply, you will not get a good grade.</p>
<p>At my school: They take role the first day, usually. Anyone not in class the first day is usually dropped to make space for people trying to crash.</p>
<p>Usually the teacher takes roll, then two midgets come out of secret doors in the walls, and they chain you up to the table.</p>
<p>On the first day, they reveal to you the ultimate engineering secret: engineering is actually really easy and GPAs are generated randomly. All engineers must complain about how hard they work to maintain the widespread impression that engineering is actually difficult: this helps keep the salaries high. You will be instructed to avoid contact with non-engineers during normal party hours due to all the “studying” you have to do. In reality, you will be attending cocktail parties with fellow engineers and extremely attractive members of the opposite gender. After four years of attending such parties the school of engineering will grant you a diploma and you will immidiately become a respected member of society. Of course for the remainder of your life, you will have to maintain that engineering is the most difficult field of study to keep the cocktail parties from getting too crowded. </p>
<p>But in all seriousness, don’t worry too much. You’ll get a sillybus (yeh that’s not a typo) and the professor will explain policies and give a lecture, no big deal – usually.</p>
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Humor? I don’t know about you, but this seems like a 100% accurate depiction of reality. :)</p>
<p>We engineers is ballers.</p>
<p>haha, really enjoyed the “non-engineers” and the “sillybus” part.
Well we dont chose classes for the first semester, they do that for us.But on the placement exam it said:</p>
<p>“On the first day of classes you will have to demonstrate a similar knowledge on a proctored version of this diagnostic exam.” man its creepy.</p>
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<p>hahahahahhahahahahhah!!!</p>
<p>man da first day is for scoping out the hunnies. you gotta show that youre the alpha male, and different than the soft ass nerds</p>
<p>What happened to your clock making thread man?</p>
<p>Just show up to class plenty early with something to write with and maybe a calculator.</p>
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<p>Don’t you mean “scoping out D hunnies, UZ gots to show UZ D alpha male. N different than those soft azz white nerds”</p>
<p>My first day of class I hand out the syllabus, talk about the class and then end it early. I’m usally done by 20 minutes. I never do any real teaching on the first day - that was an unwritten rule at all of the schools I attended. Of course I did see one or two professors that started real material the first day.</p>
<p>I always hate the classes that hand out the syllabus, and literally start lecturing. No introductions, how was your summer, reading the syllabus out loud (annoying but usually helpful for clarification), etc. That’s always a bad sign.</p>
<p>The good classes usual end very early on the first day.</p>
<p>They usually give you a third order differential equation to solve. If you can’t, they kick you out and you cannot be an engineer :(</p>
<p>At my school, most of the profs just end up passing up the syllabus, skim over it quickly, and then start introducing the material and assign homework. In my mechanics class last semester, however, the professor handed out the syllabus, then took the remainder of the hour showing us how to tie various tie knots. It was pretty amusing and unexpected.</p>
<p>How many people are in one class room? they say that in our college the ratio is 13: 1 but i saw that classes had over 70 seats! misunderstood?</p>
<p>Could be a lecture</p>