Mechanical Engineers

[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

No need to get all defensive' date=' was just my opinion.[/quote']Well, you were calling me a liar. You dont have very many posts and you joined this year. I couldnt believe you had the audacity to call me a liar and say I am on here all the time when you are new and have never replied to anything I have posted. Also, I was telling you what I do in case you had some kind of counter statement.....

Find what makes you happy bro. Just make sure it is at school and not working a fast food joint.

Yeah, i wont stop going to school until i have a degree in something I enjoy thats for sure.

 

[dennit469 10+ year member]

this guy works his a*ss off, props to the dedication you give it

 

[dennit469 10+ year member]

yea, obviously it was for you?

 

[dennit469 10+ year member]

I got it bro. No need to point out the obvious.

i guess your right

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

The stuff isn't easy. That's why it pays well, and it's a sought after profession.

Eventually, you'll find the classes get easier because you'll be more interested in the material.

You're starting off on the right foot. Get yourself affiliated with classmates (smart ones) and use study partners. Take advantage of your instructors' office hours if you need to. Most are more than willing to help. Just don't waste their time with BS questions. Have a purpose... get in, ask, get out. Show interest, but don't kiss ***. Make them recognize your name and your face. They'll remember you when they're grading your test.

Some courses are just harder than others, while some teachers are much tougher. You'll be met with the typical jerk-offs who will tell you "oh, I didn't study". Liars. And if they didn't, their GPA likely shows it. I knew guys who could float by and get a 2.5 GPA but I can count on one hand the people I went to college with who "just got it" and seemingly never studied and rocked above a 3.5. Fact is, most people just "don't get it". At least not right away. Study, practice, study. Try to find real world examples.

I graduated in May 2008 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a 3.33 final GPA. I didn't really start studying until my junior year and from that point I made only 2 B's in my last 4 semesters. It's not so much that I studied more. It's that I was actually more interested in the courses at that point. I hated statics/dynamics/mechanics. When I got into airbreathing/propulsion/flight dynamics, my grades shot up and my desire to learn increased.

If you have any questions, I'll try to help you. The best advice I can give you is to keep on truckin', man. Keep your head up, study hard, work hard, and you'll pull through. Don't listen to the dickheads who tell you it should be easy. It's not. Simple as that. My two good friends graduated at the top of our class and they worked their *** off to get there.

 

[bikinpunk 10+ year member]

yep. how dare we stay on topic. //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/wink.gif.608e3ea05f1a9f98611af0861652f8fb.gif

let's go back to talking about random stuff....

man, my spl in my truck is sick yo. the panel flex causes me to lose ~1.5dB... oh... wait.... that would be a mechanical engineering topic...

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[budahbuddy803 10+ year member]

The stuff isn't easy. That's why it pays well, and it's a sought after profession.
Eventually, you'll find the classes get easier because you'll be more interested in the material.

You're starting off on the right foot. Get yourself affiliated with classmates (smart ones) and use study partners. Take advantage of your instructors' office hours if you need to. Most are more than willing to help. Just don't waste their time with BS questions. Have a purpose... get in, ask, get out. Show interest, but don't kiss ***. Make them recognize your name and your face. They'll remember you when they're grading your test.

Some courses are just harder than others, while some teachers are much tougher. You'll be met with the typical jerk-offs who will tell you "oh, I didn't study". Liars. And if they didn't, their GPA likely shows it. I knew guys who could float by and get a 2.5 GPA but I can count on one hand the people I went to college with who "just got it" and seemingly never studied and rocked above a 3.5. Fact is, most people just "don't get it". At least not right away. Study, practice, study. Try to find real world examples.

I graduated in May 2008 with a BS in Aerospace Engineering and a 3.33 final GPA. I didn't really start studying until my junior year and from that point I made only 2 B's in my last 4 semesters. It's not so much that I studied more. It's that I was actually more interested in the courses at that point. I hated statics/dynamics/mechanics. When I got into airbreathing/propulsion/flight dynamics, my grades shot up and my desire to learn increased.

If you have any questions, I'll try to help you. The best advice I can give you is to keep on truckin', man. Keep your head up, study hard, work hard, and you'll pull through. Don't listen to the dickheads who tell you it should be easy. It's not. Simple as that. My two good friends graduated at the top of our class and they worked their *** off to get there.

My professors do not grade my tests. They have undergrad teacher's assistants grade them and they could care less how we do.

Thanks for the encouraging words. I did awful on the statics/dynamics test tonight so I'm not feeling so hot towards my overall goal, but Ill continue to do what I can. I think Im going to talk to my adviser tomorrow to see what she says.

 

[5.3bowtie 10+ year member]

You just got to hang in there man. I can not tell you how many times I questioned if I was doing the right thing the first couple years. I am glad I have stuck with it though. I will be graduating in a year so I dont have much more experience than you but what I can tell you is dont let a bad grade get you down. I had never made a C on anything let alone an F untile college. If you get a bad grade make sure you learn from it. Try to figure out what mistakes you made....units, algebraic, etc. becase chances are you will make the same mistakes again on the next test. If you know what you did wrong you can work on that specifically. For me that is the key. My first tests each semester are never great but I learn what I need to improve on, how the tests are graded, how the tests are formatted, etc. and can usually pull out an A or a B in most cases.

 

[Randy Savage 5,000+ posts]

I work in mechanical engineering; So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies. Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about. But trust me.... You don't. I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you don't know what you are talking about. This is how bad info gets passed around. If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do. Cos some CA.com'ers believe anything they hear.

 

[schrummy 10+ year member]

im in my 3rd year as an ME..... try working during the week to pay for college...