22 Things All Engineers Have To Deal With In College

1. The sex ratio in your classes is generally 100 males to 1 female. 3v2

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2. If you’re a girl, all the guys rush to be your lab partner. 4

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3. Leaving the library after pulling an all nighter and having to be conscious enough to remember everything for the exam. 7

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4. Getting your first exam back thinking there would be a curve. 6 5. When your only liberal arts class gives you a writing assignment on a book you didn’t read. 8

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6.  But when you do sit down to write your essay and you’re finishing it up you realize you’re drastically under the page requirement.  9

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I was taught to be efficient.

7.  Your engineering project is due at midnight and it’s not working the way it’s supposed to. 10

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8. An hour before the deadline and you’re like: 11

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9. Thirty minutes before the deadline you’re like: 12

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10. When your professor says you can have a one page cheat sheet on the exam. 13

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And you take full advantage of it. 

11. You can literally solve partial differential equations in your sleep. 14

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12. A four hour lab class is somehow only worth one credit. 16

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13. Your family and friends suddenly begin asking you to fix their computers even if you’re not a CS major.  16

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14. You can barely understand anything in your classes. 17

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15. And when you try to get help from the graduate TA, he/she barely even speaks English. 18 16. You always hear endless stories from the old-school engineers at your summer internship who “didn’t have computers/calculators/electricity” back when they were in school.

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17. Your social calender is almost non-existent. 20

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18.  When your non-engineering friends talk to you about how difficult their classes are. 22

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19. When nothing on your exam is even remotely related to what you studied in class. 3

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20. But somehow you manage to pull a passing grade. 23

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21. All your family and friends warned you that engineering was going to be hard.  24

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22. But you’re doing what you love and you can’t imagine being in any other major.  25

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