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re: OT Engineers - school starts soon question
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:41 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:41 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Homework, homework, homework, homework, homework, then drink heavily.
Lsu ME does not give a frick about your sons education and all they want is your money.
The most important thing your every single non engineering course is GPA. 4.0 in every damn subject, because those will most likely be your last A's.
If your son is starting with trig and algebra, he is already behind. The ME flow chart starts with calc, but you need trig and algebra for calculus. The only upside is the easy A if your son is good at math.
Engineering is about life long learning. Your son is going to have to teach every course to himself with zero fricks given by every single professor.
With a 4.0 gpa in his first year he can still get internships. GPA is the only factor for most internships and they usually will hire for multiple summers then a job after graduating. GPA and internships will guarantee a higher paying job and an easier path to financial success. Many more doors will open up. Learn from my mistakes...
Lsu ME does not give a frick about your sons education and all they want is your money.
The most important thing your every single non engineering course is GPA. 4.0 in every damn subject, because those will most likely be your last A's.
If your son is starting with trig and algebra, he is already behind. The ME flow chart starts with calc, but you need trig and algebra for calculus. The only upside is the easy A if your son is good at math.
Engineering is about life long learning. Your son is going to have to teach every course to himself with zero fricks given by every single professor.
With a 4.0 gpa in his first year he can still get internships. GPA is the only factor for most internships and they usually will hire for multiple summers then a job after graduating. GPA and internships will guarantee a higher paying job and an easier path to financial success. Many more doors will open up. Learn from my mistakes...
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Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:46 pm to TheCurmudgeon
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This post was edited on 6/24/21 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:47 pm to OneMoreTime
quote:
Yall really dropped that many classes?
Figure it this way- most classes are 3 hrs, and dropping 6 classes= 18 hours lost, or about one full semester.
You're doing pretty well by graduating in 4.5 years, so anything past that means you failed those classes rather than dropping them. Personally I took thermo three times, but that class still makes me think of my own personal trek through Mordor, so I'm not ashamed to admit it. Most I know graduated in 5-5.5 years. If that policy had been enacted when I was there, that would have really sucked.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:51 pm to OneMoreTime
quote:6 year plan?
Yall really dropped that many classes?
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:51 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Upcoming 4th year senior LSU electrical engineer checking in
Make friends, study together, manage time, dont take more than 5 3+ hour classes a semester, learn about professors before you take the class, most professors love to see you come to their office hours for help, find old tests to study, look online for solutions to difficult homework problems, dont start on homework the night before
Thermo is the hardest for mech
Make friends, study together, manage time, dont take more than 5 3+ hour classes a semester, learn about professors before you take the class, most professors love to see you come to their office hours for help, find old tests to study, look online for solutions to difficult homework problems, dont start on homework the night before
Thermo is the hardest for mech
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:53 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Lol Phys 2110 is gonna suck so much arse freshman year. Pretty sure more than half the people taking it have to take it again from last semester.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:58 pm to NYNolaguy1
quote:It took me 5 years. I dropped 2 classes and failed another (frick Harris Wong). I spread my classes a bit more, so that I wouldn't be overwhelmed. 6 is a lot to drop.
Figure it this way- most classes are 3 hrs, and dropping 6 classes= 18 hours lost, or about one full semester.
You're doing pretty well by graduating in 4.5 years, so anything past that means you failed those classes rather than dropping them. Personally I took thermo three times, but that class still makes me think of my own personal trek through Mordor, so I'm not ashamed to admit it. Most I know graduated in 5-5.5 years. If that policy had been enacted when I was there, that would have really sucked.
Eta: 18 hours in a semester. Lol
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:01 pm to 337Tiger19
Just avoid Beaird
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:05 pm to DVinBR
quote:
Just avoid Beaird
was phys departmental tests when you had beaird?
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:06 pm to DVinBR
quote:
Thermo is the hardest for mech
No way. Keep your EE comments to yourself.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:18 pm to geauxengineering
Yes, then our class's average would be significantly lower than others
Takes off half a point for a missed vector symbol
Takes off half a point for a missed vector symbol
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:19 pm to Sgt_Lincoln_Osiris
That's what i hear from multiple mechs themselves...
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:22 pm to DVinBR
Keith mf'n Gonthier. 
Will be the reason your son is a respectable engineer or a bitter management grad.
Will be the reason your son is a respectable engineer or a bitter management grad.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:24 pm to DVinBR
I had Beaird his first summer to teach at LSU. had a 67 before his third test (roughly a solid C at that time) somehow dropped a big ole 23 on my third test. Man that was a wasted summer on Phys 2102. I hated that class more than any other.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:29 pm to CFDoc
Gonthier is a good dude. Probably learned more in that class than any other.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:44 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Get a fricking internship. Get several. Get a co-op. Whatever, just get work experience. It's invaluable and most companies will gladly take a 3.0 that has work experience over a 3.5 with jack and shite.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:45 pm to weedGOKU666
And if he starts complaining about how hard the work is, tell him to suck it up. There's a reason engineers make so much money, and it's not because getting the degree is hard.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 3:55 pm to TheCurmudgeon
As an ME, encourage him to take humanities courses in the summer during his first two years. Go to some community college. That shite is for the birds. Taking a 14 hour course load is way different than 17hrs.
Study hard. Make good grades and above all get a summer internship after junior year summer.
Study hard. Make good grades and above all get a summer internship after junior year summer.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 4:56 pm to TulaneUVA
I'm going for chemical, but I have an internship and then a co-op already set up for my sophomore spring semester. It'll probably take me a little while to finish school but getting paid and then getting a job starting over 6 figures will be nice. Also, I thought I was a great copier in highschool (copied my way to valedictorian). I'm on a whole new level of good in college. Make friends. Hit on ugly bitches for HW. Whatever it takes, it is all worth it. And don't put anything off or you're gonna get screwed in the end.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 5:14 pm to TheCurmudgeon
Make sure he has
1) Commitment
2) Discipline
3) An indomitable spirit
Without these 3 things he will never make it.
1) Commitment
2) Discipline
3) An indomitable spirit
Without these 3 things he will never make it.
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