[EricH]

Originally Posted by Gdeaver

Such an intense focus on the "grade" and getting in to college. Roll it forward 4 or 5 or 6 years and you get this problem.
http://www.macleans.ca/education/uni...pr=12707004769

Robotics and the First program are great at helping with the above problem.

Students. Companies hire stem trained people to solve problems in the "real world" not a virtual text book world. Devote some of your time to jobs - internships and gain experience solving problems in a real job setting.

As well as some of the collegiate engineering competitions. See "robotics with your classes applied to the challenge first". I went to a college with a very strong "hands-on" component. 2 projects sophomore year... 1+ junior year... senior design... and I was on one of the engineering competition teams. That team led to one of the quickest "knowledge turnarounds" I've ever done--calculating how much drag force a turnbuckle would likely generate (and thus, the odds of needing more power than available) right after I'd learned drag. Had to ask the prof what the best strategy was for doing drag on odd shapes...