I remember going to dinner with a bunch of new friends the other night and I asked them all what majors they were. There was a double E, a computer engineer, a civil engineer, and a civil gone business major. When I told them I was an ME, they looked at me (me with all my five foot, one-ness) in complete awe. "That's the one of the harder majors, you know right? You're just asking for it with statics, dynamics, thermo, etc etc. I wish you lots of luck." Ah, being reminded over and over again that I'm taking a really hard major... good times... hahaha
I'm only a first year at the moment and my classes are already beating me to the ground as it is. I remember the days when I thought taking a double major combination of ME and EE was a good idea, oh man I'm glad I gave up on that idea. It's so hard to look at 201 units for ME's (quarter system at Cal Poly btw) and then consider the additional units for EE. Gah... that was just scary.
Speaking of units, for ME majors, what's a good number of units to take a term (quarter or semester) so as to not lose your mind? Then, what if you're super involved in stuff?
So far, I'm loving my major. People say that I'll switch out, that I'll get tired of it, that I'll lose all mentality and won't be able to go on with it. There have been times where I'd be doing my statics homework (I know statics isn't that bad) and I would question why I'm an ME at all. I know it's a lot of work with little sleep, but I knew all that from the beginning, it's fun if you let it be fun, and I know it'll all pay off in the end. Now it's waiting for that end, but hey, no rush right now.
