Whats up everyone ! My name is Richard and I'll be starting college here somewhat soon (August 24th) at UC Merced, which is about a 7 hour drive from where I live and I was wondering if anyone had any useful college tips for me ? I made it into the school of engineering and am hoping to major in mechanical engineering by the way. Thanks you guys for any feedback (:
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Originally posted by LJ851
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Party hard, study harder.
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Eat actual food.1988 Atlantisblau Euro/Japanese 325i Cabriolet
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Yeah i've also been told never turn down a party hahaOriginally posted by ST1G View Post
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The good thing is that I already paid for my meal plan so I wont have to deal with that on the budget diet and all that ! Gotta love scholarships ;)Originally posted by ST1G View Post
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From what Ive experienced so far, a majority of the engineer majors switch out after Freshmen level classes. I hope you enjoy calculus,statics and physics to name a few.
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Same at my school - first year was kind of a weeding out. I think the class size dropped 50% or so after the year. I think it was mostly people realizing that eng. wasn't for them.Originally posted by TheTacoMan View Post
Not sure how your school works, but for us, first year was fairly general so that people could switch majors within engineering without repeating a year. So like that I had a lot of courses i hated. But past first year it got super interesting and now i'm extremely glad i did it. (almost done).1988 Atlantisblau Euro/Japanese 325i Cabriolet
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I switched out of engineering for business once, then switched back and eventually got my master in mech eng. Worth the effort and time.Originally posted by TheTacoMan View Post
Advice, keep the partying to days ending in y and actually do the homework and reading when you can. Also be careful about your class scheduling, sometimes even that 9AM class is tough to get to more than a few times in a semester especially if you have to walk across campus past the breakfast place on an empty stomach.2011 JGC daily, 1985 944Comment
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Yup. I was going to do ME until I had to take Physics 2. That was when I realized it wasn't going to happen, haha. There were some other factors in play there, but engineering was definitely not the right choice for me.Originally posted by TheTacoMan View Post
Still haven't figured out what I'm gonna do though :/Comment
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I really hope I can stick with engineering haha. Thanks for the tips everyone keep them coming !
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At most schools Either Calc 1 or Calc 2 and maybe one of the physics courses are the weeder courses, attend those and study a lot for those and you should be okay. Once you get past that into the actual engineering courses and not just math and science they really are interesting most of the time so studying is more entertaining and passing those classes is usually a cakewalk.Originally posted by 325i_swap View Post2011 JGC daily, 1985 944Comment
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Do you have your schedule yet Op?Comment
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only party as hard on the weekends as you worked during the week. get all schoolwork done on sun-thurs. hang out and enjoy yourself as much as possible.sigpic
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enjoy it!! it goes by fast. I would say just make sure to balance your free time and school time well. Don't do to much school time and not leave any time for fun. my sister in law is a Junior at ASU doing civil En, and she hates it. She never leaves time for herself because she is constantly studying
my experience was the opposite.. I had a blast 24/7. I studied during the day so I could screw around at night.
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I was one of the individuals that was weeded out from my class after the 2nd year. I realized that my high school teachers made all of my calculus and physics classes enjoyable. Once I got to college, it's all business. The professor comes in, gives their lecture, assigns your homework and reading material and leaves. Not to mention that college-level physics, statics, mechanics, all of that is very difficult to comprehend when all of your professors are either Japanese and/or Indian (real Indian) and cannot understand them.
After getting my current job I realized I enjoy leading projects and being in a leadership role...so after a couple of years I've decided to go that route and major in business management at ASU.
Hope you enjoy it, I know sure as hell a lot of people in my engineering classes, including me, did not expect it to be as "dry" as it was.Originally posted by Wh33lhopComment
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