[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

[robz71lm7]

I'm a senior majoring in Mechanical Engineering at Univ of Louisville. I've got about one more year until my bachelors and a year until my masters (which I'm going for).

I found the basic courses (cal de etc.) early on to be the toughest because they were trying to weed you out. I also didn't like them because I couldn't apply them to the real world. If you can co-op while there do it! I'm on co-op right now at a coal burning power plant and am learning more than I could ever learn in class. It's exciting being able to come back between co-ops and draw on yuor experience. Thermodynamics made much more sense after having come accustomed with the boilers, feed water heaters, and multi-stage turbines at work. If you're mechanically inclined and like to work on cars put it on your resume. My ability to work with my hands and mechanical is actually what got me my co-op with the plant.

I must be weird-I'm 22 next month and if I have less than 8 hours of sleep I cannot stay awake at all. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) I'm hoping one day I'll be able to get by on less than 8 hours but I doubt it.