Study engineering they said, be like Iron man they said.
Engineering, arguably one of the most amazing majors to decide to do during your college/University years. You will be complimented on a regular basis, your parents will be proud of you and at some point you even may think that you are on your way to becoming all that you ever wanted and even building your own Iron Man suit but then you realize that your dreams have never been further from the truth. This post will talk about the horrors that every engineering student will experience during their time at University.
Plenty of hot girls at campus, they said.
This unfortunate truth will hit you on your first day of University, when you sit in a class of around 300 students and you can count 3 girls in your class, later you find out that 2 of them are already taken.
Engineering is probably the last major on earth for getting any action at all, not only will you not have time to even think about the opposite sex but you will find yourself in a sausage fest during your time as an engineering student and not the awesome October one that they have in Germany.
The good news is that once your time is over as an engineering student you will find that almost any girl is ten times more attractive than before your time as a student, you will probably believe that you have somehow become more mature and truly believe that beauty is about what is underneath the flesh but the sad truth is that your years as a student was as dry as a north African desert and just any girl would do right now.
Will your lower standards improve your chances with the ladies, I still doubt it as your years in engineering has managed to send back your dating game back to the dark ages but hey you can always have fun with your calculator.
Not what an engineering student does during a Friday night.
As your chances with the ladies are incredibly slim during your time at campus, you sudden have a burst of testosterone to try out other avenues like perhaps your local club then you realize that you have three assignments for Monday.
Social life in engineering is an illusion, pretty much like democracy in the middle east. You will be so overworked during your time , you are a lucky man to have a day off during your week however I cannot say that for the poor students that have to work part-time jobs to pay the rent but yet still have live on ramen noodles. The good news however is that you will be spending so much time at campus with your study buddies that you will all understand each others pain and also reminisce on the good times when you actually have some for of social life. You will also invent a number of engineering jokes that you will all have a laugh at, however you will soon realize that the general public will not react enthusiastically to your once awesome engineering humor.
Oh yes and your engineering game is absolutely lethal with the ladies, I mean it LETHAL.
An engineering degree is difficult and not for the right reasons. You will spend most of your time doing mindless calculus that has nothing to do with anything and will have little to no real world application. Your professors will bombard you will theoretical assignments and exams whilst other majors will be partying throughout their years then you graduate realizing that they are a lot more suitable for their careers than you are for yours as your professor will manage to teach you every single engineering equation on the planet but you realize that real world engineers do not sit in their offices solving for X. A mechanical engineering graduate will be able to easily explain to you how a car works theoretically but if your car ever breaks down please call a mechanic as most of us graduates will faint at a sight of a real engine.
An engineering graduate graduating on top of his class will probably know as little as the student that barely scraped for pass about real world applications of engineering. Does that indicate that you should simply do the absolute minimum for your degree and perhaps make some room for that amazing social life, well not if you want to get a job as most jobs will target graduates with top marks even though ironically all major companies will still give you their own specific training as they know deep down that your degree is pretty much worthless for work.
Your typical engineering graduate
This post may be slightly exaggerated but it is more or less the truth about your average engineering student, however the positive of all of this is that unlike most other majors you will have a better chance getting a job in your field after you graduate.
However please note that most companies are looking for and I quote "recently graduate engineers with 3 years of industrial experience", try solving for X now fellow engineer.
I have made a video in regards to the subject, shown below.
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