How much time a day did you spend on homework, reviewing, studying?
Did you ever feel like quitting?
How many of your classmates dropped out?
Mechanical.
With the amount of load imposed I had the feeling that it was impossible to to pass. With serious and persistent efforts you get surprised how things get sorted out towards the end.
Good luck!
Describe how hard your first year of engineering was?
Very. 2nd year was harder. First two years are the weed-out years where half of the students switch to business(or other non engineering major) or completely drop out. They purposly make it hard to separate the future engineers/hard workers from those who give up and drop out. Plus the seats are limited to get into an engineering major, which officially happens in your Junior Year.
What was your discipline? It does not matter. All engineering majors take the same classes in 1st year. Most take the same classes in 2nd year too and some take the same classes in 3rd year where only the 4th and final year differs.
How much time a day did you spend on homework, reviewing, studying? About 4 hours. I was a slacker. I should have spent more time studying.
Did you ever feel like quitting? All the time. Everyone does.
How many of your classmates dropped out? I remember my Chemistry teacher saying in the beginning of the semester "Most of you will drop out of this class by the end of this semester" True enough, it went from a class of 60 people to a class of 26 people. The same thing happened in most of my Freshman and Sophmore classes.
My Physics class started off with 20 people and only 5 students were left including myself by the end of the semester. I remember the highest grade on the final exam in that class was a 62/100, with the 2nd highest grade being a 42/100. The Lowest grade was a 10/100.
So to answer your question, I don't know how many classmates dropped out all together. It is hard to keep count.
Junior and Senior year will be easier. For example, my classes had 60 people on average. And on average, about 10 people dropped the class to take it again later and there were only about 5 failures per class.
Electronics
2-3 hours
No; but it went pretty bad at times; when advance math concepts like volume integrals, various filters, advance electro magnetism were thrown at us and we did not have any clue as to how they related to engineering (at that point of time). Most of it was actually not used later on. But I can understand why they make you go through it; so that if you really end up doing like research or some complex engineering you know at least where to begin. One professor said, 'The point is not that you should remember it all; the point is that if you faced with a problem you know where to begin, and how to go about solving that problem'. Go with that mind set. Very few people in the class actually understood what was being taught in the first year. But all did good regardless of that. I think the professors also understand that all that they are throwing at you may not be understood 100%.
None
I am an electrical engineer. In the school I went to, about 600 students started out as freshmen and at the end of the sophomore year, each student applied to be admitted into the professional program which was junior and senior year. There were a limited number of seats in the professional school which was about 25 to 40. I never found out how the determined the number of seats available in the professional program because it seemed to vary each year. It required very close to a 4.00 gpa to get into the professional program, and the required gpa also varied slightly each year.
The freshman year was not terribly challenging but the difficulty grew significantly each year. The program was designed to be fairly tough during the sophomore year to intentionally dissuade students who were not fully committed.
About 15% of those who started out in EE eventually graduated in the program. Many transferred to a different university with a less challenging program. Others transferred to mechanical, civil or another less demanding program. Of those who graduated, most took longer than four years, usually to retake courses to bring their grades up to meet the requirements for admission to the professional program.
I thought about dropping out numerous times when I found myself studying around the clock and spending many many hours per week in laboratories. Myself and others kept sleeping bags in some of the laboratories so we could work through the nights, taking short catnaps.
Civil Engineering
Couple of hours.
Yes all the time in my first module. It was all about legislation, regulations, etc. It was so bad. But now we're in the science and mathematics module which is awesome. I'm finding it challenging, but not hard as such, which is good in my opinion. If it was too easy I would most likely loose interest.
A lot! I would guess at about 20% and we haven't even finished the first year.
Wish you luck in what ever you decide to do :)
Easy
EE
Almost none (I learn quick - no need to study)
No
About 20% after first year (50% by graduation).
It was so difficult that it is too painful for me to even write about it.
I dont think anyone that started in my class actually ended up graduating.
They told us that only one out of every three persons that started would graduate, that is a 33% success rate, but we fooled them.
What was your discipline?
How much time a day did you spend on homework, reviewing, studying?
Did you ever feel like quitting?
How many of your classmates dropped out?
