My Assumptions about College Engineering Vs. My Experience 

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Not unless you're already dumb. #dunningkruger

Nice paradox

@@AWSim It's the Dunning-Kruger effect.

And that’s the high I look for in learning. Nothing gives me a bigger education boner than learning something hard and discovering you have much harder shit to learn. I find happiness in finding out I’m ignorant. This is my life goal; learn more and be happy.

@brandon that's where I stand right now. I'm going to keep trying.

@brandon wolf wow goodluck bro. Hope your relationship with your gf continues and grows stronger♥️

​@Tyler DO NOT listen to this guy. This guy has the generic view that the benefits of a good degree far outweigh the repercussions of getting a loan. From both a psychological and economic standpoint, loans are not worth it unless you're either going to the world top 5 schools or are a try-hard with a high pain threshold. To think that a 4 yr bachelors or whatever uni you go to would define your 40-50 year long career is absurdly short-sighted. Do yourself a favour and don't go into 80k in debt.

I once had a professor ask how our Spring Break went. We said, "ugh!" Her response was, "You didn't relax and get some sleep? That's what Spring Break is for." We had to remind her, "If you wanted us to get some sleep and relax, you shouldn't have assigned homework during the break."

My thermo prof just asked our class what we’re doing over the weekend knowing damn well we have a thermo test on Monday 😂😂😂

Sounds like a fantastic boss. If only all boss are not aggressive and hard headed people

That's because these are Engineering Science graduates.

I am a second-year Electrical Engineering student at ASU and when I joined one of the labs as an intern in my freshman year, I was dumbfounded by how little I knew. Every day I would go home on the verge of having a mental breakdown because the wafer samples weren't coming out the way that I wanted them to. But after being there for 9 months and actually getting a position there, I learned that I won't know everything to do with this field right after and I am glad that I learned that in the beginning so I can start learning slowly over time. I hope that one day that I could reach that level of having so many years behind me it really is an amazing field to study/work in.

I wish I work for a boss like you.

thank you, as an engineering student i found this very reassuring

@@TheBrickGuy7939 There is another name, it is sometimes called "applied science."

@@TheBrickGuy7939 If you're REALLY designing things - and not just plugging a bunch of parts together like Lego toys - you will NEED the math and equations.

This sorta happened in my Calc 2 class. Every class I had had up to that point, the professor spent the first day on the syllabus and curriculum plan. This time, the professor went over it for 10 minutes, then immediately started deriving equations.

So fucken TRUE

@@SirLightfire I’m going to a small community college, and I have the same profesor for calc 2 as I did calc one, and he does 3 and dif equations as well. I went in to the class, he read off how the percentages of hw tests and finals work then jumped into the class.

I appreciate it very much, if all goes as planned, im starting school in the fall in Engineering, not sure what branch of engineering yet

@@edgarcontreras1905 I'm at the end of my fourth year in college, and I still have about two years left of core engineering curriculum to get through. I started out in 2017 going into game development, found out I didn't like how unstable and demanding that industry was, and then changed to Mechanical Engineering in my second semester. I didn't take any prerequisite classes to get into my major up until then, so from then until winter 2020, I was trying to get as many necessary classes done along with other important ones to get into my program. So, I started my Mech. Engineering program in the last semester of my junior year, and I had to take off of the Fall semester in 2020 because of serious personal reasons. Now I'm at the end of my fourth year, taking only Diff. Eq. along with Literature, a class about American Regional Foods, and Gerontology. I'm cramming the work for those classes into two days a week, so I can have the other five for work on my personal projects. I'm not really passionate about Mechanical Engineering, but I enjoy the problem-solving work. I was seeking a stable career path when I chose it, but it's not something that I was interested in before college. I'm also working solo the vast majority of the time, so that's a big oof. Just felt compelled to talk about this

Its fine, any detail is appreciated. About time wise, do you have any free time or is it all work and no time for social activities?

@@edgarcontreras1905 I believe that a lot of the time, you do have time for social activities. I'm kind of on an extreme end of the scale, since I never joined a club or had a study group, I just never got in to any of them, so I did most of my work alone. I suppose if you join a study group for a class or a group of friends all on a similar career direction, (or just friends hanging out studying), then you'd likely get a decent amount of social interaction there. The thing, is, my school is about 70% commuters, which includes me, so after class, and after doing school work, I would drive 30 mins home to my family, which meant I wasn't going back to a dorm room with friends or meeting new people in a more permanent way. I found that professors have a lot of sway on the amount of work you do. In early 2019, I took Physics and Calc II together. I was finding myself unable to finish work for both classes at the same time, and ended up having to drop Calc II for later and focus on Physics. In general, classes with labs can really eat up your time, but I think the Calc II professor had a poorly structured class, at least for me. Every week, he would switch around our seating arrangements, (It's not very normal in my school to have strict seating), to be in different groups, and we'd have to turn in one copy of homework per group. This wasn't helpful for me, and his workload was too involved for both classes to stay. I use the rate my professor website to check how professors are before I choose them. A professor can make or break a course depending on the student taking it, so having one that's approachable and doesn't unnecessarily flood you with work is really good. I've had a professor who made a lecture-based economics class very fun and interesting just through his character and how he taught, so they're important. Depending on how you choose your classes, I think it's possible most of the time to have enough time for social activities.

That was a concern, taking engineering and just inside doing work and studying my years away

How tough was the math particularly for mechanical engineering at first ?

@@chopslick1000 You have to get calculus down well, but honestly once you get about halfway through your calculus it all just sort of clicks. Some people I know had a tough time starting calculus, but once you get into it, it pretty much all seems easier.

@@completelyuselessphysics8630 thank you :)

Completely Useless Physics Calc 2 is Harder then 1 and 3 diff q is weird also

How long does it take to complete a mechanical engineering degree

haha best of luck with the new school year!

MajorPrep Thank you, I love your videos by the way!

How is it so far then?

how did it go

not as many girls as you thought huh?

Yep, getting a good amount of sleep has such an impact on learning and retention. I have a pretty strict nighttime routine now, and have to work less hard to understand things compared to those who seem to always be up all night studying.

Thanks for the comment!

KRYMauL dude you have no idea. I go to notre dame and the university reqs plus college reqs are crazy and we are taking extra required theos and philos, plus writing, history, and art credits. The key is making sure those extra classes are as easy as possible so that they don’t take up too much time

Yo Mechanical Engineering is hard in that aspect, no quick rewards. One project takes so much money as and Hella time

Completely agree To me, even if it takes 40 hours, my cs class work is so much more fun and even sometimes easier than the other classes, like English.

Very true

wow i wonder if ill meet people like this.

How much do u make?

Saleh Mahdi he already made like 10 of them

I mean a video which compares them all at once , or such video not possible?

Saleh Mahdi yeah one of his video compares all of them except for petroleum engineering

Daniel Mankamyer which one? put a link for it please

Depending on what country youre in, i think most eng degrees have a common first year where you do classes from a few disciplines I had to do Eng maths 1 and 2, Electrical systems, Eng mechanics, Eng programming, Eng materials, And 2 communication units. I also had to do an elective because programming was a "half unit" ie there wasnt much contact hours and it was worth half the credits. I study at curtin uni in perth and am wnjoying the shit out of my mechatronics degree

👍

Agreed. I took: MATLab coding, Diff EQ, Statics and some other classes I can't remember because all I remember of that semester is that by the last third, I was pulling 3 all nighters a week. It was so bad that I would work all night, my alarm would go off and I'd be like, "Shit! I have to get to my first class!" I had to request a deployment to Afghanistan just to wind down from that semester. Another combat tour getting shot at? Nothing more relaxing after that school shit!

This was my Junior year. I ended up not doing the homework for one class (losing a grade point) so I could pass another. There were lots of tradeoffs that year.

computer entineering '22 here, Gig em 👍🏼

I would die to get into A&M

I'm also a junior, but I am in MXET.

Also, Whoop!

hook em

How much is the cost?

BRIDGE It’s free in Scandinavia. All you pay for are the books but you can just download pdf’s

This sounds a lot like it is here in the Netherlands but here it does take at least 3+2 years to get your degrees

Differential Equations in high school! Woah!

@@ggdharris3626 I'm currently in my first year of engineering in Belgium. We also had differential equations in high school (not all schools have those however) When we started learning about differential equation in university, I realized how simple high school was :)

Yep! I am from Brazil and fully agree, almost identical.

Also, sorry for asking, but could you do a video talking about the chemistry majors and its subfields? I know you have a chemical engineering video, but I would like to know more about the other chemistry related majors.

Thank you! Yeah I'll keep putting out a video of my experiences every now and then. In fact I'm thinking of doing one on my starting salary as an engineer and breaking down my finances for people to see maybe what an engineer could afford. But I do have a video on chemistry careers but I can definitely get more in the future.

Is branching into academia as an engineering student an easy task ? I heard that, sometimes, it can be game of thrones in that field

@@damilolaowolabi6716 Academia is always a game of thrones. STEM has it a little easier than the humanities, but it's still not easy. You need to be prepared to chase positions for a few years, moving anywhere you can get them, building up your skills and document everything new that you learn so that when you do get that coveted tenure track role, you are prepared. Also, get experience writing grants if this path interests you.

+Procel91 no I did not have to do many. Some of course for my speech class. Then had a few for my senior project class but that's pretty much it.

If you need help with those, join the military. By the end of your first enlistment, you'll be holding briefings to Colonels and Generals and it'll be no sweat.

Personally I just didn't care enough. Was more of just boredom than laziness cause I put in a lot of effort to my harder engineering classes.

MajorPrep yeah now that I'm half way through my filter semester i understand. Hahaha.

Currently in cc and general ed doesnt count toward your transfer gpa so alot of us just get a C so it counts as we passed the class

Because we don't care about those. We choose Engineering not because it was easy, but partially because it's a challenge.

I failed ENC1102 and physics lab and still have to take it yet i got A's in Linear, controls, Electronics etc.

Glad it helped! Thanks for the comment.

Same

Don't use God's name in vain please

CH1PSET hey man just wanted to say im proud of you. I dont know you, probably never will. But you fucking deserve that degree, kudos to you. The majority wouldve gave up

Youthful foolishness: we've all done it at least once!

How are you doing now?

@@be4913 I’m curious as well

nice!

This video give me some clues about engineering courses , it's very challenging indeed . I think stem majors require lots of work and at least a bit of passion to comprehend , unmotivated people can't keep up with the demands . I might go for engineering degree when I get a business degree and confident in my knowledge . Just don't want to waste thousand dollars on college then quit due to being overwhelmed . 😁

dude nice, im barely going into college this month for engineering. Any tips to stay on top of my game?

@@speedangel7315 how are you doing and maybe you can tell me whats wrong

There is a lot of Maths involved.

Going there in the fall for Aerospace Engineering! Go Mustangs!

I heard that you should look only at yourself and not others, because there will always be someone better than you, i mean, i do find motivation sometimes by seeing someone being better than me,but most people just get mad at themselves and don't use that anger to work more and harder. :) i assume that it's common to feel like that when you don't have much confidence.

I absolutely had days where I did not feel like studying. In fact I had weeks where I was just so lazy and got very little done. But no I didn't have the feeling of feeling like nothing compared to peers, I try not to compare myself too much to other people even though we all do at times. I personally have a huge interest in math, science, and engineering and put in a lot of effort to my major classes though so my grades were pretty good in college (regardless of the fact that I had those lazy days lol).

I did have a job in college but only during my 3rd and 4th year. I worked around 15 hours per week probably and yes it was stressful but I was able to manage.

Lol yeah no wonder you seem so chill about it.

I’m going to community college for engineering rn and I’m working 40 hours a week managing a subway restaurant

@@pewdjepje4466 some people just dont get it. the simple shit they complain about is funny. im working 40 hours a week pulling apart locomotive motors, full time study, have a wife and toddler and mortgage etc. All we can do is simply never give up.

@@pewdjepje4466 good luck. Hope you’re doing well with it! I’m currently a sales manager and over see 15 employees, and going to school for engineering. Stay strong!

Really glad you liked the video! And I went to school at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo :)