Bartosz Gbiorczyk well obviously the percentages would differ, course to course. For physics and calculus, a C is a 55 or above where I go. Whereas psychology and biology is 60%
@@MrBambosh In most of the US the grades go 90, 80, 70, 60. And if I get a D I might as well have failed the exam. But at the same time I have been happy for getting a 54% before.
I go to school in Montana and, we have a lot of programs and grants for women who want to go into engineering and similar fields. I'm a senior and all of my classes have at least a dozen women. So things are getting better in that regard in some places at least.
@dskmb3 dumb comment deleted, thank you for pointing it out. Still, if you mean me personally, I'm a guy, of course I can't get grant money set aside for women. If you mean in general money for nothing, I don't agree. Whether or not a person deserves something is up to the person or organization giving the money, its their money, they can do what they want with it, and how the person the money is given to uses it. Just like when your boss pays you, you earn that money by doing what they ask. The person receiving a grant earned it too, by meeting the criteria set for it. By having good grades, being the first in their family to go to college, whatever that might be.
MissWooHoo11 - BSL for American Pit Bull Terriers! No joke, I said this throughout first year, I scored 82% average, then at the start of second year I dropped out ahahahaha
That’s why high school grades is an inaccurate measurement of intelligence. Everyone feels relatively smart in high school. The true test is university and graduate school.
Things I identified most with: 1) "Bracket bracket bracket bracket." 2) "I used to be good at physics." 3) That guy that kept confidently pressing enter on his online homework only to see that he wasn't even close to right 4) "Remember when we were the smart kids?" 5) "They scale on this course, right?"
Engineering students are often so overloaded that they don't have enough time/energy to really learn and understand the material. Subjects are presented in such a way that they are difficult to understand and remember, which can be extremely frustrating for students. Utilizing short-term memorization is the only way many engineering students will be able to survive engineering school. When they graduate, they will realize how little they actually know about their profession, and may have a hard time finding engineering jobs.
Jess Stuart so are you claiming there is a better way to become an engineer than going to engineering school? it's hard because not everyone can do it.
+VolcadorReviemer They say that liberal art majors are worthless and they are stupid only for not knowing higher level maths or science. I am a physics major and I think that it's really stupid and childish that some or most science and math majors start calling other non-science majors "worthless" or "stupid" just because they aren't science majors. They overestimate themselves and their abilities and underestimate others only to feel good about themselves. They think that being smart is only about knowing math and science, when in reality it is wisdom who's the real genius here.
+Brayan Carrera I agree. I've always been better at maths than art, language etc. not that I think maths is easier but when I compared an easy language course and an easy maths course, I learned maths faster. Got through the home work faster. With reading and comprehending a book, I couldn't stand having to remember minor details of the book and writing an essay on specific questions. Same with history. Reading reading reading, and in the end only a very specific question and had to write 4 pages while remembering historian's quotes. English and history is hard. Learning a language is hard, flash cards, speaking with partners, repetitiveness with writing, translating everything, listening to the CD on top of the given homework. With maths and science, I remembered everything as long as I did my homework consistently. There's geniuses in all walks of life, I certainly don't see myself as smarter than an artist, I respect them because I find it hard. I'm glad I always had good maths.
Or Commerce/ Business students... I bet they stay up till 3 AM in morning banging their heads against a brick wall for not being able to slove problems just like we do!
Yea some engineering students are condescending in a way they believe their major is superior than any other ones. I’ve only seen this happening in school only; all the engineers I met in the real world so far are mostly humble people who couldn’t care less about bragging their profession. I guess those condescending ones will be eventually eliminated because they can’t get rid of their ego and ascend to the greatness.
At my college it seems that the physics dept. is the one doing stuff like this to engineers, but even then most of it is tongue in cheek. Other than that the majors tend to co-exist harmoniously
I copy pasted my coding for my machine and counted the brackets 6,235 I’m really worried because that should be an even number but for some reason it works
Hugh totally been there. When I took dynamics, the teacher decided to make the final easy just to be nice. However he didn't put as much thought into the questions as he should have and they all ended up being strange trick questions. Oh, mostly multiple choice by the way. I think the class average was 35%. He sent out an email after the scores were posted telling people not to jump just yet as there would be a wicked curve. I passed thankfully.
Chemistry student. No one gets above 50/100 on our physical chemistry exams with this one notorious instructor. One semester of thermodynamics and the other is quantum mechanics
Aerospace engineering student here too! For my Dynamics class the first exam average was a 27. I got a 65, I never felt so proud of a failing score before
lmao, "it gets easier after first year" part. Freshies soon realize it just gets worse each semester. Everything is so spot-on except walking out on that exam (you're fucked unless you have an A and fine with getting a low B or C) and that cheese stuff
two guys did that on a final, one of the guys ripped his exam in half, yelled "this is bullshit" at the prof, flipped his desk and cursed at the sky. before walking out. I finished one question out of four on that test and got a B+, half the students came out crying.
BrotherMouzone One time I had an analog circuit test... I missed 3 days out of the week covering the topic... I saw the test and walked out. I walked back in and took it anyway... I got a 56% and praised god that I knew ANYTHING that was on that paper.. lol
+ho disperatilor Think it would be the plea of the rat (or mouse if you prefer) in the maze trying to find the cheese. The whole rhetoric behind that metaphor can be interpreted as "how long will this journey take and when I do find the cheese...if I find the cheese, what was the point of it all?" Also reminds me of the "who moved my cheese" story illustrating complacency and resistance to change.
+sjbubbly It's interesting that you would point that out. Though I've heard of that story I never would have expected this kind of video to make any reference to it whatsoever. It has not even happened at my university. These are some cultured students, I must say.
+Anonimo Rapper Who says engineers aren't well rounded? It says that right there on my assumption list, right next to approximating a horse as a sphere.
sjbubbly I didn't say that, I simply stated that it was not what I expected. I've heard before that engineers are cultured but I have no idea to what extent. I know a lot of engineers that write poetry and are well-read but I would not expect them to read some thing like that.
OMFG this is the exact summary of my freshman engineering year! It was complete fucking hell and confusion. All of my friends gave out answers because they KNEW the very next day theyd NEED someone else to give them the answer to a question. Engineering is love. Engineering is LYFE!!!>.
+Archer Black Dude just use a proper IDE and don't use fucking notepad to code. People always complain about this problem, but I never understood it. Literally all modern IDE's and compilers will detect such menial syntax error.
It actually does get easier after the first year... Provided you didn't put any effort into your first year and you actually start working harder in your second year
That bracket bracket bracket part....so freaked relatable!!!!!! We also have webwork in my uni...and one missing or extra bracket....and your answer is wrong
Like 3.6 For my entire 4 years I got a 3.4 average. I'm at a 2.6 average in college right now though haha. Let's see if I can get it past 3.0 by the time I graduate. Still got 2 years left. 5th senior ftw.
"Consider your cousin Throckmorton...." I was dying. I had to leave the library choking on my own laughter because it's the most accurate depiction of engineering word problems ever.
I remember people would tell me that the first year or whatever is the hardest but in my experience it just gets progressively way harder throughout the four years lol...
-IM LAUGHING SO HARD AT THIS 😂 cos its so damn true!! thought I was the only one who didn't even understand in class tho :p - the "remember when we were smart kids! " part 😭😭 im so sad cos I was in high school -and the 8-6 class with one hour break lol im wheezing 😂 so mean, it was the hardest 😩engineering ruined me -these people must be really nice friends to make this video :D - 1:42 wait what are those white remote they press??
I'm in Computer Science and it's pretty much the same. Also, you forgot the part where people think you know what's up, but you're just as clueless as them.
I like how people say it gets easier later on. Freshmen year at college as an engineer was the easiest one out of all of them. After that, it only got harder
Coming from a final year biomedical engineering student, it does kind of get easy after 1st and 2nd year.. Celebrating over 53% is so true. I remember for 1 exam we had, 2 people out of 30 passed the exam. 8 got less than 10% hahaha fun times
OMG so relatable even my parents told me to pick to be a doctor or an engineer and I didn't wanted to be a doctor and now I'm preparing for the engineering entrance and it's killing me !!!! And now I'm thinking I should have chosen to prepare for medical entrance cause it will at least save me from math but then biology goes above my head and now after watching this video I reckoned this is just the beginning life is going to get hard after getting in engineering college 😭🤔
I remember walking out of my first ever physics quiz right after seeing the problem lmaoo that sht happens for real, didnt know the work required to be an engineer till calc 2 and physics
