What do you think is the time consuming or hardest major in college

[mochafreak]

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Well, I guess I vote for ChemE...not only is it fun for four years, you get to do post-bacc studies afterwards to raise your crappy GPA.

 

[mochafreak]

I had a course freshman year called "intro to computers" which was actually FORTRAN programming for engineers. I bet adcoms are going to look at that and go "how in the **(%^ could anyone not ace that one?". I think my school would have had three ChemE's a year graduate if the classes weren't curved. I remember some test averages that were in the low 20's.

 

[bobmarley77]

I graduated with a ChemE degree and must say that it was tough but I'm sooo glad that I did it. I liked most of it other than Optimization, Controls, Fluids, Heat and Mass Transfer, and Kinetics....my grades in these classes were lousy!! LOL, after my horrible grades in Fluids in junior year, I decided to do an internship (CO-OP) working at a plant...making 16-18 bucks an hour as a college student ruled and climbing up tanks & the different units was an adventure. I wouldn't trade this experience for anything. I had time off from school and had a lot of fun during the 3 semesters I worked. Anyway, I made it thru and worked full-time as an engineer for a couple of years up until last year.

Now, I'm ready for med school in August!!

Fortran...that class sucked.....

 

[vtucci]

In my opinion, Philosophy. Anybody try reading Kant in the original German?

 

[finnpipette]

electrical engineering

 

[Nutmeg]

Originally posted by Mr Reddly
BTW, Fortran was fun. Pointless... but fun.😍

Fortran was a lot of fun for me, too.

 

[strangeattractor]

wouldn't we all argue our own major choice was the hardest?

HOWEVER. i really do think my undergrad major was one of the hardest, most time consuming choices if not the hardest - cybernetics. i had to take aerospace engineering courses with the aero majors & biochem with the chem majors and on top of that i was fulfilling my electives with graduate courses in biomath, etc. add a little bit of computer science, neuroscience, upper division math, honors requirements and a research thesis to top it all off. hardly anybody in our program graduates in four years, and we have more required classes than any other science major on campus. i look back now and realize that i had it MUCH worse as an undergraduate than as a grad student now.

then again, i wouldn't change a thing.

 

[Sherif]

 

[PhysicsDoc]

Any votes for physics yet?

 

[Sherif]

Originally posted by frick
Any votes for physics yet?

Plenty👍

 

[LauraMac]

yeah, i think they're extra hard on the engineers here at umich, too. i really can only compare it to one other school, though, so i am not sure if maybe a lot of other schools are also mean to their engineers like this. who knows... but at times like this when i have two exams in the next two days i wish i were not an engineer. 😡

 

[Sherif]

 

[Dr.Wolkower]

ITS TORTURE

 

[LauraMac]

haha, sorry about my whining. 🙄

i was just super stressed cause i had a bunch of exams and homework assignments and projects and blah, blah, blah.

i still think engineering is the hardest, but not that much harder. i was just being a big baby last week.

 

[jeffsleepy]

It really does depend at what you're good at. I'd rather do a CS project and a chem lab instead of this 3-6 pg paper I have to do for a "English for Engineers" class. I haven't written a paper in three years 🙁

 

[liverotcod]

If you don't like to write, English is heck.

 

[wire]

is this even a question? engineering.

 

[NRAI2001]

Underwater basket weaving. Seriously its dam hard.

 

[importedalb]

I don't know about you guys, but I think she makes a good point:

http://www.ucsdguardian.org/cgi-bin/opinion?art=2001_11_01_03

 

[bobmarleydude]

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