Quote:
Originally posted by Rich Wong
An opinion from the other side of the fence:
I am in my 23rd year as an electrical engineer with a BSEE and MSEE. The FIRST program from my experiences is very REALISTIC. What you experience in the six weeks is what I experience at work everyday.
It is fun, stressful, requires hard work, but rewarding. I feel the problem most people have is in engineering school is College skews your perspective of real LIFE. I face the same problem when I was going to school also.
Sorry college has skewed your perspective of Engineering.
|
I am going to have to agree here. I ran into the same thing with computers. I had already been working as a programmer for 4 years [started at 15]before I started college as a CS major. Many kids were CS majors to become programmers after college. With 4 yrs under my belt I figured I could ace college. But what i found out was that college did not reflect what programming was like in real life, and in fact unless a person really wants to be a "computer scientist" I think 90% of most CS majors would be better off as Computer Information systems majors. Unless you'll be designing systems that require a heavy knowledge of math, most application software development will not require any more math then you probably learned in 9th grade

and the CIS program is alot more well rounded in programming,networking,etc.
but back on topic,lol
Unfort. EE or any engineering is very heavy in math though very useful in the field. I would not let college damper your feelings on engineering in general becuase I feel FIRST reflects the "real life" expierences of engineering. FIRST is nice in that way becuase it allows you the hands on w/o having to take many of the math and other tedious classes for engineering students in college. My advice to you is not to let college get you down. You already know you love engineering, if math is one of your harder classes then try taking less classes with it, or maybe summer classes, or take an extra year for college. But don't give up, 4 years is very little to ask for a career you'll love for the next 40 years of your life
