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Warning to any freshman in engineering:
Many schools make the first year (and sometimes second year) fundamental classes extremely hard on purpose to weed out those who are not really there for the right reasons. My first Physics exam at Purdue kicked my butt and depressed the heck out of me because I never saw it coming and thought that I had flunked the test. In fact, a 35% on the test was considered a "C" grade. No one had gotten higher than a 65% on that test. I survived that class and a few others like it (2nd semester chemistry was even worse). After a while you learn to deal with the curve graded system and how to maximize your score on exams by not getting stuck on one hard problem. A straight "A" student in high school can easily become a "B" student in college if they do not adapt properly.
Any way, as others have said, do not judge whether you should stick with engineering based on early college classes, but rather on doing some soul searching and decide if what engineers do in real life turns you on. And of course, pick the engineering fields interest you the most.
Raul
PS - don't mind Mike Soukup. He is a little sensitive about SW engineering cause we tease him and pick on SW when the robot doesn't work. But he is right - it can be very complex.
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Warning: this reply is just an approximation of what I meant to convey - engineers cannot possibly use just written words to express what they are thinking.
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