Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

Heh, just wait until Morrison and Jason Morrella get a hold of your post ;)

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You're only warning us now?!!!! I have another 3 years left! (Out of 5)

*erin cowers in corner and enjoys these last two months of freedom before she has to go back to class

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

Back 10 billion years ago when I was still deciding on a college (it feels like an eternity ago), I went and toured RPI. As we were walking along, someone shouted from a dorm window:

"If you want something easy, take business!"

True story. ;)

edit:
My lawyer informs me that I'm being a moron. Feel free to disregard any random business bashing. Sorry, it's an engineering school thing... I'll refrain because Business majors are people too.

Especially Jess, she's cool.
/edit

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

I got a $60K scholarship to RPI, but it's still too expensive to go :ahh:

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

No worries. Trust me, you should hear us make fun of engineers ;)

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You know Jess, I seem to remember that RIT has a lot of people that drop out of things like Computer Engineering and Computer Science and move onto MIS (Management of Information Systems; a business major). So maybe business isn't as hard as it's cracked up to be? ;)

Then again, I've always been under the impression that they just assume that engineer's can handle business without any special training. It's just an assumption. :)

Matt

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

ME is a fun major. This is my second year at UML and having a great time. Just a question, how many of you work, do college, and FIRST? How is the GPA?

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

Yeah, ME is hard. But in my opinion, most other engineering curriculum's are harder! This is of course, only based on friends that were in them, or specific classes in ME that were required from other disciplines.
But in general, college itself is hard.

Just remember this - Learn the material now. Because next year, you'll take a class that requires you to recall what you learned the year before, and so on, and it continues to build. When you get into junior and senior year, it's amazing how many things you say "hmm.. I learned something about that before, sure wish I learned it better". All the sudden, all these classes you thought you'd never use again, you find they're all actually related in some way. Maybe you won't use it in the real world, but you'll use it until you graduate college!

And yes. Thermo is liked by very few people.

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

This I would have to disagree with. If you think about it, or at least I like to, ME's are every engineering field rolled into one. Electrical, motors, plastics, yess we need to know about them, chem, matrerial properties, etc. Maybee I am just bias but it is the way I feel. \ :D :D

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Maybe business is easier at those "engineering schools" since that's not their focus, but Babson is hardcore, seeing as that's the only degree they give out. By the way, did I mention there's a stat floating around that Babson has the one of the highest average workload times the Nation, 2nd only to Princeton? ;)

...see, this is why you need people like me. I understand your thought process better than anyone.

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

Ask Dean Kamen which is easier, Engineering or Business ;)

Last night was the earliest I went to bed this week, 3:30 am. It only gets harder when you're a senior ;)

Re: Majoring in Mechanical Engineering
 

Chemistry...hmmm. If I remember right the mech e's here only have to take chem 1. That's enough chem principles to get them nowhere. I think most engineering majors are hard. I'd say the most time consuming is the arche. Not hardest just time consuming. If you want to take the most math and science classes go CHE or probably biocheme does more.

The feeling at our college is start in engineering and work your way down. Luckily I'm still in engineering. Or one of our departmental motto's. Chem E...because it was too late to change.

I take some business classes anyway but they seem simple compared to engineering type classes. They help my GPA at least.

So if Mech E is too hard for you. Just come be a Chem E.

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Two words

Differential Equations

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Is easy.....I wish I would have skipped Calc 2

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Calc 2 was fun, but I forgot to mention that my professor for diff EQ speeks little english :D :eek: