Ok so I chose Chemical Engineering as a Major. I am in my third year now and it really is starting to get me. I think there are great job opportunities and all, but the major is tough. Really tough I can not handle it anymore, I am about to go nuts. Am I the only one here, or is everyone else suffering the same way? Dammit I go to exams after studying so hard in I might as well not study, cuz all the questions are weird!!!! please share your experience in this major...hopefully there is some light at the end of the road!
2006-10-11 19:31:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Get out now.
Engineering is very dull - not to mention that if you live in the US there won't be any decent jobs for engineers in the future anyway.
I wish I had changed majors when I had the chance.
2006-10-12 15:12:15 · answer #1 · answered by Prof. Frink 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a Chem E, I was a Nuke E at Berkeley. It sucked. I remember studying my asss off and getting the test and going totally blank. It happens to everyone. Especially the beginning of Junior year. It fricken sucks.
Hopefully there are some classes you "get", that you get an A or high B in. I will say that I took a summer off my junior year and went to Alaska, and it made all the difference in the world. It just hit home that there was so much more in the world than libraries and books and equations. It cleared my head, and I took a different approach - when I really WANTED to study, I would bury myself and think of nothing else. But if I was hanging out or at a party or doing something else, I'd allow myself to have fun and wouldn't think of class. Whatever I did, I thru myself in 100%. My relationship went better, work went better, and I got all A's my last 3 semesters.
Plus just 3 or 4 more semesters and you're done. It's totally worth it. Part of being an engineer is reminiscing about the hell you went through in undergrad, and reassuring yourself that if it were easy anyone could do it, like all those other majors.
2006-10-11 19:59:20 · answer #2 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Depends which classes are giving you problems. I graduated in Chemical Engineering back when we were first making dirt.
In those days once you were in the 3rd year you were taking mainly Engineering courses I didn't think those were too bad. Just have to work all the assigned problems.
I did have trouble with the non-engineering classes particularly in the Chemistry and Physics departments. The profs there were openly hostile to engineers and I suspect they formulated test questions to trip up engineers.
One such question in physical Chemistry was something about energy distributions. But the question gave you weights of various goats and asked how they would be distributed on the side of a mountain. No, I didn't get that one correct. I'm wondering if somthing like that is what you are talking about. If so don't worry about it. The further along you get the easier it gets.
2006-10-12 06:58:43 · answer #3 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Start drinking heavily because it doesn't get any better. OR, suggest looking into off-shoots of Chem-E such as Industrial Hygiene or Petrolium Engineering.
2006-10-15 08:11:05 · answer #4 · answered by B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋