What should I do?

ClassicRockerDad
Sat, 22 Dec 2012 17:28:35 +0000

Don’t kill yourself. Isn’t it a mortal sin? Don’t even joke about it.

This is actually normal. You haven’t YET figured out how to do well in your technical classes. You need to learn how to study more effectively. If you can, get a tutor, google “How to study engineering classes”. Read a lot of advice and figure out what you’re not doing. It might take another semester to get it right. Keep at it. It’s a learned skill that high school doesn’t teach you.

Learn how to get As. Then things will average out.

Basically

1. preread the lectures so that very little of what you see in class is new

2. take notes on a piece of paper during class, copy them over neatly later. This process will force you to internalize much of the lecture

3. Do problem sets early so that you are prepared with questions to bring to office hours. Look at every problem and think about how to do it.

4. Go to office hours even if you don’t have questions

5. Study in groups, as long as every body does every problem individually and comes to the group prepared to get more insight.