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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most people don't realize how much harder an Engg degree is compared to other strong degrees (science, econ/finance etc)[/quote]

My DC engineering student has almost double the amount of class hours (class, discussion, labs) as non-engineering friends. It is more difficult than most kids realize and many drop out. [/quote]
This is an underrated difficulty of engineering programs. I needed 140 credits to graduate with a BSCE eons ago. Most of it was very scripted and left only 9 hrs for electives (essentially just 3 classes) over fours years. There was little to no room for error or taking less than the 17-18 hrs per semester and you often don’t even get “credit” for the many required labs.

We also had to take one “basic” engineering class in a different E discipline (which, at the time boiled down to Circuits/EE or Thermo/ME) and that [i]one[/i] darn near killed me. But I loved all my CE classes (except Steel Structures, which, last I checked, isn’t even undergrad work now) and spent 10 years in that career before transitioning to another STEM field.

It is hard. It’s not for everyone. [/quote]

lol come on thermo was fun!!

-ME[/quote]
 :lol:

Major, puns intended I suppose, props to you. I couldn't have done the full ride down that path. At least in Statics, everything had to equal zero![/quote]

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