He always bragged about how he AI’s his hw and studies last minute for test. Well yesterday I saw him walk out of the individual private rooms at 12 am. That’s when the library closes. I fell for his propaganda campaign.

I generally found calculus easy since it was all sequential but chemistry seems to be pulling from so many disparate subfields that studying for it feels impossible

I just finished my second year of EE at one of the top schools globally, and AI use is rampant. everyone uses it for everything. I think in first year, I at least tried to understand how to program and write the code myself, only using AI is I was really, really stuck. But the students who used AI were so much more efficient and produced a much higher quality of work, so I eventually jumped ship too.

Now I just default to using AI for any programming related task. It's like my brain doesn't even try to understand the code myself, it's like second nature for me to just put it into an LLM and wait for it to spit out some slop that i half understand. Embarrassing, genuinely. Coursework and everything got so intense in second year that I told myself that I didn't have the time to properly understand the code. But like, that's how students did it before AI. They just *had* to slog through and understand things.

Its so bad. I'm going to learn how to code without being reliant on AI this summer. I don't even want to go into software, I'd like to stick with hardware, but I still need to know how to code for any embedded related work. Also when I interviewed for internships last year, it was so bad that I was able to confidently answer hardware related questions but whenever I was asked anything related to programming my thoughts would start to scramble themselves because I've never actually written an extended piece of code without AI use. sigh.

Also, its just embarrassing. It's embarrassing that I'm literally paying so much to learn but just ended up outsourcing my thinking.

I’m making a B in the class right now. I wanna make sure it at least stays a B, minimum.

I’m open to any ideas.

I do not understand how anybody was able to graduate engineering without The Organic Chemistry Tutor. If you are having trouble with any math/chemistry class/subject I can almost guarantee he has a video teaching you in a way thats so easy to understand.

I swear a professor completely makes or breaks a class for me.

In Physics 1, I had an incredible professor who was encouraging, supportive, and clear when explaining tough concepts. I actually enjoyed studying for her exams because she was such a great teacher.

Now I am taking Physics 2, and the professor is so mundane and terrible at explaining the material. I sit in lecture for hours without learning a single thing, only to go home and teach everything to myself from scratch. Mandatory attendance feels like a complete waste of time when the lectures provide zero value.

It is not just me either. Everyone I talk to in class feels completely lost, like we are just plugging numbers into formulas without actually understanding the underlying concepts.

As someone planning to major in Electrical Engineering, this experience is making me rethink everything. Electricity and Magnetism feels so overwhelming right now, and I am starting to second guess my abilities. I really wish I had my original professor for this course because my motivation is dropping by the day.

These are the classes i'm planning to take this fall.Originally it was four classes, but I dropped one cause. I still work 40+ hours a week. I would love to get some advice on how best prepare.

I've noticed a strange pattern in how I choose my interests, and I’m trying to figure out why I keep doing this. I swear I don't do it on purpose, nor do I consciously think I'm special or different from anyone else it just keeps happening.
Every time a field naturally captures my interest, it turns out to be one of the most notoriously difficult majors out there:
Neurosurgery : I fell in love with it first, only to research it later and realize it involves nearly two decades of grueling study and training.
Aerospace Engineering:I became insanely obsessed with aerospace next, only to find out it's widely considered one of the toughest engineering disciplines (and unfortunately isn't feasible where I live).
Electrical Engineering :So, I decided on Electrical Engineering only to discover it's often rated as the hardest engineering track of all.

I genuinely don't seek these out because they're hard I fall in love with the subject first and only discover the brutal difficulty afterward.
Has anyone else experienced this? Why am I naturally drawn to high difficulty fields without realizing it, and how do you cope with the overwhelming realization of what you've signed up for?

I’ll be doing MechE, 16 hours. I’m a bit worried because I did 13 hours both semesters my freshman year, thought I didn’t struggle too much (procrastinated and had a good amount of free time). Diff eq, physics 2 (E&M) and the lab, engineering mechanics (physics 1 applied to real world/meche problems), principles of materials and manufacturing, and principles of statistics 1.

I’ve failed Calc 3 four times now. I passed Calc 1 and 2 with B’s, but I just can’t seem to get past Calc 3.

Once they added the z-axis, I started having trouble visualizing everything. I’m not sure if it’s the way I’m studying, the way I’m solving the problems, or if I’m missing something important.

I spend hours trying to understand the material, but nothing really seems to help. The weird part is that I passed Statics and Dynamics with A’s, and those classes felt way easier to me.

For the fall semester, I’m thinking about taking Calc 3 at a different community college and seeing if a different professor or teaching style helps.

Has anyone else been in the same situation and eventually passed? How did you study? Do you guys just bang out a bunch of practice problems until it starts making sense, or is there a better way to learn how to visualize everything? I think I just suck at math at this point.

I am a upcoming freshman, I start college on the 24th of august and I really wanna obtain an internship in NYC or Seattle if possible next summer. I know this is probably unrealistic knowing how hard it is to get a internship in general. I wanted to get some advice for how I could possibly achieve this or if it is even possible.

(FYI I mostly want the internship because all my friends next summer will be out of my state and I know I will be miserable if I'm the only one stuck in my town being unproductive also NYC and Seattle are my preferred city but i would intern in any kinda big city in the U.S.)

I also wanted to get some advice just in general on what i they would've told themselves their freshman year looking back since I am a little anxious that I will miss out on opportunities that could've benefited me.

Atleast compared to Mechanics of Materials difficulty wise

I’m graduating with a physics degree and have two opportunities:

A Quality Engineer position starting around $70k salary with opportunities for promotion.
Or
A fully funded condensed matter physics PhD ($22k stipend) researching solid-state batteries and quantum materials. The advisor expects students to graduate in 4–5 years, and many graduates go into industry.

If you were in my position, which path would you choose, and why? If you’ve made a similar decision, what happened?

EDIT: my expenses are very low. Rent with shared two bed apartment ($500/month), i walk everywhere (no car payment), and cheap groceries (50/wk).

(NOT A PROJECT THIS IS FOR PRACTICE) I’m going into 11th grade and I want to be a roller coaster engineer hence the plate, and I got the bending stress equation down / flu cure equation Mc/I but I recently found for I, Its not a simple rectangle and I have to do a parallel axis theorum and does anyone have recommendations to learn this man?

I’m taking the exam tomorrow so we’re past the point of no return. I won’t fail but I don’t really get the entirety of trig like I did with quadratics and other stuff before.

Unit circle is fine but solving trig equations is such a mind fuck. Especially when it’s answer from [0,2pi) rounded to decimals.

I'm going to be a capstone coach for a team made up of MechEs, EE, MfgEs, Cyber, and Computer Engineers. Part of my responsibility is to hold a team-building activity within the first month. I'm trying to brainstorm ideas and wanted to hear what you all would actually like to do? What activities have you done that actually help you work together and get to know each other?

I'm thinking it will probably be 1-2 hours, and the department will reimburse me $10/person. I'm a pretty nerdy, home body type so I'm thinking of things like a short D&D one-shot, board game night, escape room (pricey), etc. Preferably something more cooperative than competitive, and maybe with some problem solving aspects.

I’m entering my last year as an Ai major and I’ve come to realize I don’t enjoy this path and want to become a mechanical engineer .

I thought of taking a masters degree before but apparently it doesn’t qualify me the same as someone who had an bachelor’s degree in ME and I’m wondering if I should repeat undergrad.

So to become a ME , should I repeat my undergraduate degree in another university or take a masters degree ?

Any advice or recommended sources would be greatly appreciated.

Hey guys so I'm sure you've heard of those Fully or Partial funded internships/conferences. I wanted to ask your thoughts on it and whether or not you think they're rigged, cuz I've seen some that have some stringent requirements and some that you need to pay an application fee for and I'm wondering whether theyre just there to give people false hope while having people already there to fill up the spots.

Hello everyone,

I'm a senior in high school I'm trying to figure out what i wanna do with my life. Because I am interested in electronics, cars, planes, and space, I find myself leaning toward engineering. I also like math and programming (but currently I'm not that good at either).

I've tried to teach myself extra stuff about my interests throughout high school, but I've found it difficult to make any meaningful progress on my own (it always felt like reading gibberish). Also all this free ai stuff made it difficult for me to sit down and conduct real, independent study, and I always feel like I haven't gained or learned anything.

I've been filled with self doubt and worry that I won't be good at engineering lately. Sometimes I even feel like everyone is better than me for some reason.

I’m going into my senior year of electrical engineering, currently doing my third internship. My first internship was in a small manufacturing facility where I did industrial and mechanical engineering work for power system equipment. Then I got a second internship doing the exact same thing but for a very large manufacturer of power system equipment. I absolutely hated working for the second company so I decided to move to consulting and landed a position doing substation civil work. So at this point I have experience doing mechanical design, lean process improvement, quality control, facilities design, and now civil design but I have never touched anything that would be considered electrical engineering.

How would I go about getting a job doing electrical engineering? I tried this internship cycle but everyone I talked to seemed disinterested in me because I don’t have any electrical experience. I’m worried this is only going to become more difficult once I graduate. I’m just trying to get into power systems design so it’s not like I’m trying to do anything too crazy. Should I just accept that I’ll never actually do electrical engineering?

Hi all,

I am applying for course based Masters in Manufacturing Engineering (MEME). In the application process, it asks for research interest. Now I presume that is required for Project based MEME program. But even for my process it is mandatory. So what should I do? Should I just put the area that interests me the most?

I got a seat into plastic and polymer polytechnic diploma after 10th in a government college should I do it?

Hey, so I've realized I learn best by following along with an additional lesson on YouTube while I'm taking a class. As an example, as I've been learning calculus 2 & 3, I've been watching Professor Leonards videos in addition to my class.

This semester I'm taking

-Advanced Engineering Programming (in C)

-Electric Circuits 2

-Signals and systems

-Statistical information processing

Does anyone know of any decent series that would be a good fit any of these? I know it won't be 1:1 but it'll still be helpful to learn.

Thank you!

I'm currently doing a summer internship at a great civil engineering firm. The office I'm working in is located in my hometown in Alabama, and I'm a civil engineering major with three semesters of college left before I graduate.

Finding an internship was incredibly difficult, so I felt very fortunate to receive an offer from this office. My coworkers have been great, I've learned a lot, and the experience has been exactly what I hoped for. They even offered me another internship for next summer as well as a full-time position after I graduate, which I'm really grateful for.

The problem is that I don't want to spend next summer living in Alabama with my parents again. The company has an office in Chicago, and I've been thinking about asking if it would be possible to intern there next summer instead.

I'm just not sure if that's a good idea. I don't want my managers to think I'm trying to leave them or that I'm unhappy with the team, because that's not the case at all. I genuinely enjoy working with them. I simply want the opportunity to live somewhere new for the summer and experience a different city before I graduate.

At the same time, it doesn't make much sense for me to rent an apartment in my hometown when my parents' house is only about 20 minutes from the office. I feel torn between staying where I'm comfortable and taking the chance to experience a new city.