Should this be happening in uni?

Question

I am a 1st yr uni student studying engineering. I found the following:

1) I attend lectures and don't/barely understand materials taught.
2) Even if I understand, I won't be able to do the tute quite often, bcuz those stuff r either too complicated or not covered in lectures.
3) The tute is discussion based. Hence, absolutely useless. Not much ppl seem to be discussing.
4) I often can't do the practicals bcuz very little information (written unneccesarily verbose with hard vocabs) is provided and no demo given. Don't even know how the apparatus look like before hand. Can only do it thru trial and error and asking demonstrator, which is waste of time.
5) Poor/incomplete lecture notes & bad teaching method (very informal/ not informative). Sometimes lecturer don't speak clearly. Some lecturers keep asking ppl to read txtbook and not teaching much.
6) >20 hrs of contact hrs per week.Tiresome but not much benefits as explained above.
7) Take awfully long time to finish maths assgn

8) There's extremely boring lectures.
9) Other students have the above symptoms too.

Should this be happening in uni? How about your uni? Is it like that as well?

Please give serious answer. I'm considering to change uni.

Answer 1

try to clear daughts from seniors

Answer 2

Your experience isn't uncommon. When I was in college I had some terrible teachers and some great ones. I had to spend a lot of time studying the textbooks. Try to find an older student who understand the materials you're trying to learn. Sometimes you're stuck in classes where graduate students are the teachers and they haven't prepared the material well. So you're kind of on your own as far as learning everything. It shouldn't be that way, but it is that way a lot of the time.

Answer 3

alright-wat engineering?? I'm in engineering! mate that is college, if ya complaining already in 1st year--wait till 3rd yr. Uni ain't like school, no more spoon feeding. Ya get the notes, ask questions( a few only) and away wit ya. Gotta do it wit mates or by yourself! But it's grand, lectures are there to give you the notes, thats it!in practicals they are meant to give you demos first- complain that! hard vocab, tis engineering! basically when that happens ask, if they don't help go to your head and to the library to get a book.

maths gets worse( but you'll get through it-i did.

Answer 4

That's Uni for ya. There is a reason why those books cost so much. Now you can actually put them to good use. try to read and understand from the book or talk to kids who have taken their classes and passed . They will have good advice.
please also go to pickaprof.com when picking classes it will tell you how bad a teacher is. It is 10 bucks though

Answer 5

It is not the same everywhere but that depends on where you go. Some uni. are very tough, especially in engineering. If that is what you want to really do then you need to ask the professor for extra help in understanding because you dont get it.

Answer 6

Unfortunately yes.