Random things on your mind..

[BACCS]

Heh I lasted about 2-3 years in my engineering double before slowly switching to business info sys degree which I ended up leaving anyway haha!

I don't think there are enough warnings about engineering degrees at Adelaide.

Warnings? I'm not sure its just a sarcastic comment but I fully know what I was enrolling into when I did, and definetley dont expect it to be an easy ride. But hey, engineering just doesnt agree with people like they thought it would, and thats life.

 

[jo172]

Exam worth 30% of my grade tomorrow which I left uni to study for at 11 and still haven't felt compelled to start. Christ I just don't give a **** about electives!

 

[cmndstab]

Perhaps it's just me but I've always felt that Engineering is one of the easier degrees. I'd certainly find that easier than, say, Medicine.


It's busy and sometimes abstract, but I'd say there's a hell of a lot less work involved than most humanities-based degrees.

 

[thebirdman 24]

Me and my friend played Super Smash Brothers and FIFA 09 until 7am on friday/saturday night/morning, then went out the following night till 7 again (where i met CG which was random) and I'm still suffering from lack of sleep that i never caught up on.

 

[BACCS]

Perhaps it's just me but I've always felt that Engineering is one of the easier degrees. I'd certainly find that easier than, say, Medicine.


It's busy and sometimes abstract, but I'd say there's a hell of a lot less work involved than most humanities-based degrees.

I would agree its alot easier than Medicine, however if you only just scraped through Maths in year 12 you will struggle. I'd say you would also have to be very dedicated to problem solving and not letting it get the best of you when things get tough. Just my thoughts anyway. Certainly in terms of a career path, engineering is a hell of a lot easier.

 

[BACCS]

Me and my friend played Super Smash Brothers and FIFA 09 until 7am on friday/saturday night/morning, then went out the following night till 7 again (where i met CG which was random) and I'm still suffering from lack of sleep that i never caught up on.

If I end up at the Uni bar Friday night then I might end up in your situation next week!

 

[thebirdman 24]

If I end up at the Uni bar Friday night then I might end up in your situation next week!

It was worth it man go for it

 

[BACCS]

It was worth it man go for it

I think I just might. Why not, its cheap booze!

 

[jo172]

Perhaps it's just me but I've always felt that Engineering is one of the easier degrees. I'd certainly find that easier than, say, Medicine.

One of my lecturer's parting words this morning were

"Law school's hard, it supposed to be hard, if it were supposed to be easy it'd be called Med school"

Unfair, but hilarious!

 

[cmndstab]

I would agree its alot easier than Medicine, however if you only just scraped through Maths in year 12 you will struggle. I'd say you would also have to be very dedicated to problem solving and not letting it get the best of you when things get tough. Just my thoughts anyway. Certainly in terms of a career path, engineering is a hell of a lot easier.

Yeah, it's true that being good at maths will make it a hell of a lot easier. It frustrates me how many Engineering students I've taught who tell me they shouldn't have to do maths in an Engineering degree I'm not sure what they think they'll be doing when (if) they graduate. I usually tell them if they want to being grabbing a hammer and following someone else's blueprint, an apprenticeship is a better path for them than Uni because every part of a Uni degree will involve maths.


Speaking of Engineering students doing maths, one of my favourite stories was when we had a question where you had to calculate the length of a bridge, which ended up being around 3640m or so. One student of mine, after getting the correct answer, then rounded it to one significant figure, going from

=3642.687m (or whatever)

on one line to

=4000m

on the next.


I tried to explain to him that, as an Engineer, you want to be more precise, not less precise, but he wasn't buying it. He was convinced that one significant figure was all that mattered. I ended up telling him if he got a yearly wage of $64000 he wouldn't be too happy if he got it to one significant figure. I think he understood

 

[BACCS]

Yeah, it's true that being good at maths will make it a hell of a lot easier. It frustrates me how many Engineering students I've taught who tell me they shouldn't have to do maths in an Engineering degree I'm not sure what they think they'll be doing when (if) they graduate. I usually tell them if they want to being grabbing a hammer and following someone else's blueprint, an apprenticeship is a better path for them than Uni because every part of a Uni degree will involve maths.


Speaking of Engineering students doing maths, one of my favourite stories was when we had a question where you had to calculate the length of a bridge, which ended up being around 3640m or so. One student of mine, after getting the correct answer, then rounded it to one significant figure.

Exactly, I hear that too. However, all they end up doing is struggling massively in first year maths, doing foundations or something first to catch up, and then give up because its all too hard. Maths is just sooo critical! Also that story is classic, I hope it was just a brain fade!

 

[cmndstab]

Exactly, I hear that too. However, all they end up doing is struggling massively in first year maths, doing foundations or something first to catch up, and then give up because its all too hard. Maths is just sooo critical! Also that story is classic, I hope it was just a brain fade!

I pushed post on that one too soon I really enjoyed teaching Engineers first year maths though, it's a really enjoyable level of maths because anyone can learn it with enough effort but it's rich enough to challenge even the best students.

 

[BACCS]

One of my lecturer's parting words this morning were

"Law school's hard, it supposed to be hard, if it were supposed to be easy it'd be called Med school"

Unfair, but hilarious!

Law is just another notch up though! I couldnt ever cut it out in law, ever.

 

[BACCS]

I pushed post on that one too soon I really enjoyed teaching Engineers first year maths though, it's a really enjoyable level of maths because anyone can learn it with enough effort but it's rich enough to challenge even the best students.

Haha I noticed that, still a good story though! This year I've probably found the maths concepts a lot easier to grasp than in year 12 for some reason. I dont know why, but its been a lot more enjoyable too. However, even missing a week of lectures, as my mate found out, puts you a long way behind. I'm always up for a challenge, unless its some complicated proof!

 

[cmndstab]

Haha I noticed that, still a good story though! This year I've probably found the maths concepts a lot easier to grasp than in year 12 for some reason. I dont know why, but its been a lot more enjoyable too. However, even missing a week of lectures, as my mate found out, puts you a long way behind. I'm always up for a challenge, unless its some complicated proof!

Yeah, in first year maths you learn basically one new topic every week. Calculus, Trigonometry, Vectors, Integrals, etc. Each week it's something new.

 

[Alex99]

Yeah, in first year maths you learn basically one new topic every week. Calculus, Trigonometry, Vectors, Integrals, etc. Each week it's something new.

And you bastards (not you per sa Stabby) gives an assignment on those subjects every week as well.

 

[BACCS]

Yeah, in first year maths you learn basically one new topic every week. Calculus, Trigonometry, Vectors, Integrals, etc. Each week it's something new.

And right now its the ever so interesting 'Infinite Series'.

 

[-CG-]

Me and my friend played Super Smash Brothers and FIFA 09 until 7am on friday/saturday night/morning, then went out the following night till 7 again (where i met CG which was random) and I'm still suffering from lack of sleep that i never caught up on.

It will never cease to amaze me how small Adelaide is

 

[jo172]

It will never cease to amaze me how small Adelaide is

Anyone want to wager on the odds of the average BF poster misusing or misspelling the word cease in this sentence?

 

[cmndstab]

And you bastards (not you per sa Stabby) gives an assignment on those subjects every week as well.

Yeah, I don't set the syllabus I just play to it. I love that role actually because I can give the "inside scoop" to students without shooting myself in the foot

 

[crowman86]

Warnings? I'm not sure its just a sarcastic comment but I fully know what I was enrolling into when I did, and definetley dont expect it to be an easy ride. But hey, engineering just doesnt agree with people like they thought it would, and thats life.

I knew what I was getting into also , having a brother who did an elec eng program along with 2 cousins and 3 uncles all doing very similar programs. First and 2nd year were ok but then it just seem to get hectic and too crazy for mine. I had pretty solid foundations in Maths which helped, (18 Maths 1 and 15 in Maths 2 at yr 12). Our group that was doing this particular double started out as 33 people and 6 graduated that program. Others either changed, dropped the Maths and Comp Sci part of the degree or the Engi part.

We were told at the start, take a look at the person to your left and right, only one of you 3 will ever finish this course. What it boils down to for me was just not being mature enough in my approach to studies at that stage of my life, after going out and working full time for 12 months, I now realize how important it was to put work into my studies and its actually a pretty easy life for a lot of the year, just as long as you really knuckle down during the stressful time you should be fine I am back studying now and find it much easier/enjoyable this time around.

I do hear that law is extremely hard, I dated a girl once that ended up lasting less than a semester before throwing it all in. I also know of a guy who did Law and Medicine Apparently he said that Medicine was far easier and required much less work than his Law degree.

 

[jo172]

I do hear that law is extremely hard, I dated a girl once that ended up lasting less than a semester before throwing it all in. I also know of a guy who did Law and Medicine Apparently he said that Medicine was far easier and required much less work than his Law degree.

Myth perpetrated by law students.

Doing Law/Arts, I can promise you the Arts is much harder. The hardest bit about Law is getting in.

 

[cmndstab]

You have to do a ridiculous amount of work in Arts, that's for sure.

 

[jo172]

You have to do a ridiculous amount of work in Arts, that's for sure.

For very little reward!

 

[BACCS]

I knew what I was getting into also , having a brother who did an elec eng program along with 2 cousins and 3 uncles all doing very similar programs. First and 2nd year were ok but then it just seem to get hectic and too crazy for mine. I had pretty solid foundations in Maths which helped, (18 Maths 1 and 15 in Maths 2 at yr 12). Our group that was doing this particular double started out as 33 people and 6 graduated that program. Others either changed, dropped the Maths and Comp Sci part of the degree or the Engi part.

We were told at the start, take a look at the person to your left and right, only one of you 3 will ever finish this course. What it boils down to for me was just not being mature enough in my approach to studies at that stage of my life, after going out and working full time for 12 months, I now realize how important it was to put work into my studies and its actually a pretty easy life for a lot of the year, just as long as you really knuckle down during the stressful time you should be fine I am back studying now and find it much easier/enjoyable this time around.

I do hear that law is extremely hard, I dated a girl once that ended up lasting less than a semester before throwing it all in. I also know of a guy who did Law and Medicine Apparently he said that Medicine was far easier and required much less work than his Law degree.

I've always been a very organised person with his studies, so for me anyway, I don't think work ethic will be a problem. And Uni life is pretty cruisy, except for the times you said, when you have to study hard. I'm pretty committed to finishing my degree in Chemical Engineering, otherwise I wouldve put the effort I have so far in, it just wouldnt be worth it if I was to drop out.