Top 5 reasons it sucks to be an Engineering student ???

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For many students, earning a degree in engineering is less than enjoyable and far from what they expected. Here are our biggest complaints about the educational rite of passage. Of course, they are sweeping generalizations. Feel free to disagree.

5. Awful Textbooks
Thick, dry, black and white manuscripts are rarely a source of inspiration and sometimes can cause loads of confusion. Often, the text is poorly written and interrupted by lengthy equations with symbols that are different from those used by the professor during lectures.

4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
During each class, a professor that would rather be tending to his research will waltz up to a blackboard or overhead projector and scribble out equations for an hour without uttering a single sentence to create some excitement.

3. Dearth of Quality Counseling
College students may not have a sense for how to build their resume and they might be clueless about the variety of career opportunities that await them. Unfortunately, some academic advisers do little more than post fliers about internships and hand out a checklist of classes to take. They should make some projections about the future job market, learn about the interests of each young scholar, and offer them tailored advice for how to best prepare themselves.

2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.

Some professors view undergraduate education as a type of natural selection, but their analogy is flawed. Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores because they have a larger group of supportive friends to or more time to dedicate to studying.

1. Every Assignment Feels the Same
Nearly every homework assignment and test question is a math problem. Only a few courses require creativity or offer hands-on experience.

If you want to complain about your education, or our list, this is your chance. Leave a comment!

[shinmin]

i can't understand what i'm reading

[toasted siopao]

2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.

Kaunting pa-cute lang sa mga minor subjects, aba, taas na ng grade kapag engineering ka.

Sa major mahirap magpacute, it is either mpagkamalan kang bading or sigurado i-enroll mo sa summer or next sem yang subject mo.

[toasted siopao]

Sometimes di na ma-explain ng prof kung paano naderive ang isang equation, kaya ang resulta, homework na lang or sasabihin is basta yan na ang result.

Acceptance theory ang resulta.

[spidamang]

Pet peeve: Professor engineer na walang idea about actual applications ng tinuturo niya sa field. Magaling sa textbook questions. Ngunit kung tanungin mo ng mga Why questions... Please refer to the book yung sinasagot niya. It's not an issue  kung hindi ka nagtatrabaho sa field but updating yourself through a little research should be your responsibility as a teacher.

The biggest thing I learned in college is that the real world does not follow a comprehensive step by step program. I learned early on to hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. Disappointments will be many. But you must always accept, adapt and move on. 

Wala tayong magagawa kung ganyan ang status ng education. The best we can do is trancend them. Teach yourself. Improve on your own. And if you feel noble enough, go back and show them that you can do a better job...

Think of your frustrations as things that make you stronger and that prepare you for the real world. During your more frustrating moments, these complaints of yours should make you ask yourself kung gusto mo talagang maging isang engineer.

College gives you a piece of paper that shows you have the capability to learn things. It's what you do after college that matters. 

Cheers.

[beginner wan]

Pet peeve: Professor engineer na walang idea about actual applications ng tinuturo niya sa field. Magaling sa textbook questions. Ngunit kung tanungin mo ng mga Why questions... Please refer to the book yung sinasagot niya. It's not an issue  kung hindi ka nagtatrabaho sa field but updating yourself through a little research should be your responsibility as a teacher.

wala kong masabi!!! exactly!!

The biggest thing I learned in college is that the real world does not follow a comprehensive step by step program. I learned early on to hope for the best, and prepare for the worst. Disappointments will be many. But you must always accept, adapt and move on. 

Wala tayong magagawa kung ganyan ang status ng education. The best we can do is trancend them. Teach yourself. Improve on your own. And if you feel noble enough, go back and show them that you can do a better job...

tama po sir!!! galing ng advice!

Think of your frustrations as things that make you stronger and that prepare you for the real world. During your more frustrating moments, these complaints of yours should make you ask yourself kung gusto mo talagang maging isang engineer.

eto ang ginagawa ko ngayon...

College gives you a piece of paper that shows you have the capability to learn things. It's what you do after college that matters. 

Cheers.

well said...galing!!!

[rdpzycho]

4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
During each class, a professor that would rather be tending to his research will waltz up to a blackboard or overhead projector and scribble out equations for an hour without uttering a single sentence to create some excitement.

most of them just don't know how to derive them...

some of these professors are actually good in practice or at least in theory...pero hindi nila kayang ibaba yung level nila to the point na madaling maintindihan ng students...they seem like to talking to professionals...

this is "Great Engineer/Scientist but not a Good Teacher"...

[freakything]

hmm..

just this sem, pinagawa kami ng instructor namin ng power supply..
siya ang nagbigay samin ng mga specifications ng parts na gagamitin pati na
rin yung diagram..
so kami naman eh super saya kasi ala na kaming gagawin kundi bilhin ang mga
parts at iassemble.. lol..

mali kami! oh noh!

ang laki ng ginastos namin kasi mali pala ang binigay na specifications samin ng
instructor na yun..

 

[paranz]

basta ok lang ang school lab and library ok na sa akin. I have never been dependent sa mga profs/instructors namin. 

[rdpzycho]

basta ok lang ang school lab and library ok na sa akin. I have never been dependent sa mga profs/instructors namin. 

agree here...though concerned ako sa ibang classmate namin...majority ng class can't understand some theory...

[Ganda692002]

#1 kunti lang magandang chicks minsan wala pa heehehe..

pero kung dumami sigurado maraming failed students.. di makakoncentrate sa pagaaral hehehe

[rdpzycho]

1st year to 3rd year kasama namin ang Fine Arts at Architecture sa isang building...madaming chicks sa Fine Arts...

nung 4th year, linipat na sila sa sarili nilang building...

[glutnix_neo]

basta ok lang ang school lab and library ok na sa akin. I have never been dependent sa mga profs/instructors namin. 

agree pero may mga prof din ako na idol ko,hehehe

[Google]

basta ok lang ang school lab and library ok na sa akin. I have never been dependent sa mga profs/instructors namin. 

tama at saka isama mo pa dyan yung tamang flow ng syllabus para kahit di ka umaasa sa profs/instructor pede ka nmn mag self study ng hindi ka naliligaw/ 

[Heuriskein]

       Dami kong natutunan at naconfirm sa thread na to , nasabi na din ang mga sentimyento ko sa school .
May mga instructors talaga na sobrang galing sa theories lalo na sa calculations, pagdating naman sa actual di na alam ang gagawin    or very less and experience .
       Sana lang din bago magsimula ng isang topic eh , iintroduce ng maayus if ano ang kahalagahan ng subject to the real word , ito palagi ang napapansin ko na malimit  makalimutan ng mga instructors natin, kaya tuloy hindi madali ivisualize and mga ibinibigay na problem  at hindi nagiging ganun kainteresting ang topics, then after the topic eh bigay agad ng application para mas masaya.    
       Kung gusto nyo talaga ng magaling na instructor, hanap kayo ng magaling sa theory and application at higit sa lahat , 'yong tuturuan kayo na turuan ang sarili n'yo hihi  .
       Sa mga post sa itaas , maraming salamat po .

   

[glutnix_neo]

yun din ang reason kaya nageexcel yung mga may interest talaga sa electronics,

kasi kesa magrely sila sa instructors nila eh they do extra effort na magaral all by themselves.

[mahalkosinikki]

sa totoo lang mahirap talaga humanap ng magaling na professor na magaling sa field at
magaling sa theory.....
most of the instructors just rely on their textbooks, but if u ask a question regarding on that theory
they will answer you on what the book says and not answering you regarding on what the've observed in experiment right??

kaya pag tapos na ang pag aaral sa lumabas ka na sa real world, aun dun mu makikita na survival of the fittest pala ang labanan dapat pareho kang magaling sa theory at sa application...

 

[solderHIGH]

..this i noticed from my school..

[a crow left of the murder]

yung prof namin astig! barkada na nga namin sya e... kasama sa lahat ng gimik at sya pa taya!
madalas kaming i-treat sa labas.......ewan... pero astig din magturo! sa op-amps, microwave, pneumatics, ayos....... graduate sya ng PUP. nasa mid-30's n cguro sya pero single pa din! madalas nya kaming mapasuko sa kainan...sobrang daming umorder parang birthday nya kada labas namin....kung di dahil sa kanya, hndi gagana yung thesis namin....

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konti lang ang babae kung may maganda man kalimitan taken na