[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

[sgarnett]

I do remember how good 4 hours of sleep felt when the norm was 2.

Yup (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) Sometimes half an hour was a good night's sleep.

Once the sleep deprivation becomes severe enough, you don't have to be fully asleep to dream. Just relax in a chair for a few minutes, drift into a dream while remaining aware of your surroundings, then go back to work feeling relatively refreshed - or what I would have called "refreshed" at that time.

As others have said, it kind of comes down to how bad you want it.