[bigshoe]

how much trouble have you had in getting your degree?

I'm starting to have a tough time, but its mostly because I don't have the time to study. currently i'm only in the beginning, general chemistry(with lab) and calculus 1.

my chemistry teacher is hard to follow (foreign), i'm getting a high D
and calculus isnt that bad, I'm getting a low C
chemistry lab is a low A, but that was a pretty simple class.

my problem is i work 40 hrs during the week, and i have alot of travel time also. I have an interest in this stuff (not so much chemistry), but find it very hard to lose sleep to study.

anyways, i was able to move 24 of my work hours to the weekend for next semester, that should help greatly, I'll be taking calc 2, physics 1 (with lab), and c programming.

Ok guys, how bad do i have it???
I know i'm only in the beginnings of engineering here, and i'm not looking good, i really hope that will change next semester since i've made some changes for it.

what did you guys find tough or demanding when it came to engineering classes? I find it takes me absolutely forever to do my homework and focus on it, I blame being out of school for 5 years for that (although i know it could be alot worse).

Did you guys find the later engineering classes to be much more difficult than this earlier stuff?

btw, i'm a Mechanical engineering major, and if it matters, i've completed an associates in EET in 1999 from a tech school

[slowTA]

Oh great!!! A guy who had trouble in machine design is making torque arms for us!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

Strength of materials wasn't too bad for me... because that was when I joined the school's baja team and there were a few team mates in the class with me.

I actually started out in a Mechanical Engineering school but the whole being away from home and studying like I've never had to took a real toll on me. I went to some community colleges before going back to a real ME college agian, a local one this time. The best part is that my Diffy Q transfered in from a community college!!! That may be away to get around the weeding out problem. Most community colleges think that the upper level math classes are beyond the weeding stages, that's where an engineering college starts their freshman weeding.

But just to complain about foreign professors, poor English, and bad attitudes... we've all been there. For some reason they're getting worse in my senior classes where it is pretty important to retain this stuff, go figure. You gotta love it when you ask these people a question and the start talking about how it's your job to read the book/lab manual, and then they go on about how their family was poor and he had to share 1 pair of shoes for all the 23.5 children in the family.

That old saying is true... "those who can't, teach to those who can't understand a word they're saing!."

Now I'm off to a Heat Transfer test.