Every major on campus has its own set of problems. Here are the 14 struggles every engineering major knows a little too well.
You know you're an engineering major when...
1. Syllabus week lasts about an hour.
2. You are the perfect example of: “Choose between having good grades, a social life, or getting enough sleep to function properly”.
3. You think about changing your major at least three times a day, if not more.
4. If you go to sleep around 1 or 2 AM, you think “Wow, I’m actually going to bed early today!”
5. Your class schedule goes from 9 AM to 4 PM, unlike your non-engineering friends, who don’t have class like two days a week.
6. You skip a lecture, but only because you have to study for another class.
7. You spend your Friday nights working on assignments that you should have started the day they were assigned.
8. You have been working on a physics or programming assignment for seven hours and you’re still no where near being done.
9. Everyone hopes the exam average will be a 35%.
10. And everyone thinks the exam average of a 70% is really high.
11. You start laughing to yourself in the middle of an exam because you have no idea what is going on.
12. You studied for two weeks and still came out of the exam room, saying “Yup, definitely failed that.”
13. Your professors have a hard time turning on the projector, which is surprising because they’re teaching an engineering subject??
14. You know that after all the blood, sweat, and tears, it will all be worth it when you walk across the stage with your diploma. Because if you got through four years of engineering, you can practically do anything. :)
Hang in there, you're going to make it.
