Ok so here’s the deal. Every week I have a lab class I have to be enrolled in for my major. Usually the lab will start at a certain time and all the groups will be there to begin doing the specified lab of the week. This week however the lab class had to start almost thirty minutes late. A majority of the other people in the lab are enrolled in another upper-level engineering class and they all have it at the same time. Apparently a lot of people were distraught over the results of a quiz and stayed till the end of class and past it to argue with the teacher. Due to this blog being family oriented I will leave out the dirty details.
This is expected in the battle for an engineering degree. If I could explain how to get an engineering degree I would classify it in three waves. The first wave is the beginning of the college experience in which students are taking fairly simple classes that do not involve their major courses. If they are taking a course in their major, most likely it is not a hard course. The biggest obstacle in the first wave is adjusting from college life and being away from home.
The second wave brings about classes which first involve taking classes which are prerequisites to your major. These classes carry a level of difficulty in which a certain amount of commitment is needed for the classes. At this point more students begin switching their major to something else.
The third and final wave brings a majority of the courses in your engineering major. It is in these classes that the knowledge that you gained from the previous course sections are used in every way possible. The difficulty is based on how it tries to tie together all the knowledge you have learned in the past three years to what you are studying
After the three waves, the gate to the engineering degree is accessible because the only classes that remain are project classes.
So for my fellow engineering majors currently stuck in the third wave of the battle of the engineering degree, good luck and stick out till the end.
Fight the Good Fight
Ya Boy Archie Wright!
