It's hard too. Your first semester you're going to think "goddamn this sucks, this is hard as hell! But It'll get easier as the semesters pass" Well, it doesn't
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I took ME at a university aobut 4 years ago and then dropped it a year and a half in to become an auto tech. Worst mistake ever. Guess what - I'm back in ME again, and remembering how much workload it is. I need to quit my job now becasue working + phyiscs 2 calc 2 and chemistry just isn't possible for me at least. Maybe if there were 37 hours in a day.
Anyhoo, like the guys were saying, you don't have to be a math genius, but you DO have to understand what you're learning. You have to know where when and how to apply the mathematical, physical, and chemical fundamentals that they're teaching you. That's 60% of the major, is learning how to problem-solve strategically. The next 20% is learning how to time manage (ESPECIALLY if you have 5 or 6 classes in a semester). The last 20 is the acutal material. Maybe less. Every equasion that they'll teach you one could probably fit on 4 or 5 pages of paper in a normal font, but knowing how to use them is what takes the 4 or 5 years of uni.
Lastly, you will have no life if you want to succeed, and a corallary to that is that if you DO have a life, you won't succeed. It's really REALLY easy to fall into parties and screwing around and women when you're at college, so try your best to avoid it. Try to make friends with the other engineering majors so you guys can study together which will help you understand better and save time in the long run.
Now that i think about it, calculus isn't all that hard. Calc 2 is the worst because its a LOT of memorization of stuff, but once you have a firm grip on calc 1 and 2, then, calc 3, diff. eq.'s and linear algebra aren't all that bad. This is what i heard from just aobut all of my engineering buddies.
What is really sucking the goats teet for me now is i forgot my trig and how to add/multiply vectors. Anyone wanna gimme a crash course in those? It's holding me back in my physics course
