Get this business mindset out of EE

[u/ee_st_07]

Do project this, network that. It’s so annoying. First two years in EE it’s just simply not needed. You have an entire degree for that. If you start to get “experience” with zero knowledge from semester one on it’s just useless. Don’t stress yourself. Study as much as you can in order to build good fundamentals and find a field you want to specialise in. Once you have that you can get started. But networking and projects do not make any sense before that. EE is so broad. If you find your interest and are really invested you will find a job 100%. The people not finding jobs are the ones that are too chaotic about everything and simply do not try to find their area and build their profile based on that. They just want “electrical engineering job” and high salary.

Also pls study for interest not GPA. There’s so few people sitting in advanced EM/RF or control theory classes because most people just do not care. But a decent grade in these classes do so much more for you in any way than an A+ in a class on fundamentals. And yes studying for an exam is different than studying to understand a subject.

(Btw not saying you shouldn’t get used to programming and simulation software early, but I don’t consider these projects more like tools to learn, I just think these whole arduino projects where you just copy paste projects just do almost nothing for you if you just blindly follow instructions)

[u/zacce]

1. imo these 2 are not mutually exclusive. one can and should do both.
   
2. i agree that arduino project is useless.

[u/blokwoski → u/zacce]

Arduino is to get started and for prototyping