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<blockquote data-quote="budahbuddy803" data-source="post: 7012118" data-attributes="member: 566041">So, i am in my first semester of my second year at Clemson as a Mechanical Engineer. I find myself sitting down from 8am- at least 8pm M-F doing school work, and then Sunday from 8am-8pm. Thats a minimum of 60hrs a week. I am taking multi-variable calc, ceramic materials engineering, statics &amp;amp; dynamics as one course, british lit, and then some one hour BS ME seminar. The multi-variable calc, british lit, and ME seminar have been very understandable to me. I got a B on the first calc test, A&#039;s in everything in the lit, and an A for attendance basically for the seminar.I NEVER comprehend what we learn in the CME course. It has a lot of chemistry and other things that I don&#039;t even know how or why or what we are doing. I hate this course and the professor does not offer help sessions or homework problems or practice tests. Its just lecture, test, lecture, test without anything to study except what you are able to copy down from his 20 slides in an hours. I got a 49 on this first test.The ME statics and dynamics course is also rediculus. There are no grades other than the 4 exams, I go to help sessions with undergrads that made an A in the course last year sunday-thursday. We have our first test today @ 7 which i have been studying for for the past couple of weeks.I just dont understand how you guys get through this. I put in all the effort possibleand use all the tools that I am offered and still come up with a 2.67gpr last year. This year is going to be like a 2.0. Is this a major that I personally just can&#039;t complete or are there other things that people have done to succeed that I have not done or seen?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="budahbuddy803, post: 7012118, member: 566041"] So, i am in my first semester of my second year at Clemson as a Mechanical Engineer. I find myself sitting down from 8am- at least 8pm M-F doing school work, and then Sunday from 8am-8pm. Thats a minimum of 60hrs a week. I am taking multi-variable calc, ceramic materials engineering, statics & dynamics as one course, british lit, and then some one hour BS ME seminar. The multi-variable calc, british lit, and ME seminar have been very understandable to me. I got a B on the first calc test, A's in everything in the lit, and an A for attendance basically for the seminar. I NEVER comprehend what we learn in the CME course. It has a lot of chemistry and other things that I don't even know how or why or what we are doing. I hate this course and the professor does not offer help sessions or homework problems or practice tests. Its just lecture, test, lecture, test without anything to study except what you are able to copy down from his 20 slides in an hours. I got a 49 on this first test. The ME statics and dynamics course is also rediculus. There are no grades other than the 4 exams, I go to help sessions with undergrads that made an A in the course last year sunday-thursday. We have our first test today @ 7 which i have been studying for for the past couple of weeks. I just dont understand how you guys get through this. I put in all the effort possible and use all the tools that I am offered and still come up with a 2.67gpr last year. This year is going to be like a 2.0. Is this a major that I personally just can't complete or are there other things that people have done to succeed that I have not done or seen? [/QUOTE]

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