Do you actually have to work for 15 hours a day to get an engineering degree?

[cjl]

It's the summer time and I've been trying to study every day as if it was finals week.

Why?

 

[JakeBrodskyPE]

At the end of the day, studying like a maniac is good to prove that you can do it. But too much study means you have focused excessively upon the goal and not enough on the journey.

You discover the truly cool stuff while searching for other things. Don't assume that it's all about the GPA, or you'll look back and realize that you missed some very important lessons.

 

[Macarooney]

At the end of the day, studying like a maniac is good to prove that you can do it. But too much study means you have focused excessively upon the goal and not enough on the journey.

You discover the truly cool stuff while searching for other things. Don't assume that it's all about the GPA, or you'll look back and realize that you missed some very important lessons.

This is sound advice. :)

One of my friends graduated from UCSD as an Aerospace Engineer with a 3.5 GPA and still had fun on the weekends with the occasional partying. Being an engineering major will demand a good deal of your time, but having balance is crucial. I would hate to look back at my undergrad years knowing that the majority of my prime years were spent with my nose buried in textbooks instead of going out and actually enjoying my life.

 

[Edin_Dzeko]

Why?

I'm in a hole where anything less than a 3.9 each semester might prove very very disastrous.

 

[Angry Citizen]

I'm in a hole where anything less than a 3.9 each semester might prove very very disastrous.

I'd really like to know the details behind this.

 

[jakeyboy]

What kind of homework do engineering majors receive? What exactly is the 7 hours per day being spent on?

 

[streeters]

What kind of homework do engineering majors receive? What exactly is the 7 hours per day being spent on?

well...

Tutorial question sheets, practicing examples, lecture revision, textbook reading, papers if you're keen...

A lot of it isn't assigned homework, just work that one should do if studying a discipline.

But 7 hours a day is masochistic. 3-4 hours is plenty for a normal day.

 

[Medwell]

But 7 hours a day is masochistic. 3-4 hours is plenty for a normal day.

Completely agree. I find that a lot of engineering courses (especially the heavily math-based ones) just kind of "make sense" to me, and so not that much studying is required. Problem sets can take a while sometimes but it's not too bad.

The course I've had to study the most for so far was Organic Chemistry II, which isn't even in the engineering department. It was the absence of numbers and all the memorization (rare in engineering courses) that made it tough for me.

 

[unixunited]

That's nothing.

Try holding a job at the same time, you'll begin to hear voices.

 

[jeebs]

15 hours a day? that is such bull$hit.