Engineering wouldn't be so bad if homework was normal

[erub]

In grad school in EE, it flips..less work, content much harder to grasp

In undergrad, my architecture friends spent more hours at school (and pulled multiple all-nighters), but their content wasnt as rough. EE had the next most amount of work behing Arch. And I took a couple of CompE classes and made A's in both of them, and they were no where near as hard as analog circuit design. (There were CompE's struggling in both of these classes a lot harder than I was, one was a Java class, and the other was Microprocessor Design (although there wasn't any design going on, just learning about the 8088 and assembly language)).

 

[BrownTown]

meh, don't let these people scare you, its not all that hard, I go to a top 20 school and probably only do 5-10 hours of work outside of class, so if you think you are gonna be working 5 hours of class then you are probably an overachiever, 1 hour outside for every one hour inside should be enough. The only times you should be pushing 60+ hours of work in a single week is for final exams.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Wait till you get to your compiler classes....

 

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Wait till you get to your compiler classes....

I take mine next spring. I'm looking forward to it.

 

[jagec]

Originally posted by: archcommus

For every one hour spent in class, you are supposed to spend 5 outside of class in HW + Studying...
so now if you take 18 credits, thats a 72 hour week...
welcome to college.

+15 hours of job, going to parties at 8 and not coming home till 4 am, and not getting up till 2 the next day recovering.

Where's the time for HL2????
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Real college schedule: Attend most of your classes. Spend maybe six hours a week doing the homework, a few more on exam weeks. Work 15-20 hours a week, and play computer games or surf the web another 20. Plenty left over for debauchery.

 

[BrownTown]

I agree 100% with jagec, that is alomst exactly my schedual except I don't have a job , I have more than enough time for entertainment, even with 8 hours for ultimate frisbee practice a week, and lifting weight 3 times a week.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Bucks
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Originally posted by: Bucks
you go to Pitt if I remember from your previous posts right?

Yep, good job.

Our main engineering building (library inside) is open 24/7 as well, heh.

Yup, I go to Pitt....Industrial Engineer

Interesting...the only encouter I've had with IEs is in my ENGR 1010 class. Have you ever taken that?

For anyone considering EE or CoE, don't be scared off by posts like mine. It's really not that bad at all if you like math and techincal stuff, I actually slack off a lot and only study an hour or two for most tests and do fine. It's just one or two classes/professors that really stick it to us with absurd homework. As ProviaFan said, hand compiling C and then hand assembling the assembly and stepping through the resulting machine words is pretty extreme for a class listed under engineering.