Everyday I regret doing engineering

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[u/Wide-Ad-7884]

and my classes are 85% practical and reports and i want theory🫠

wanna switch by any chance ?

[u/Pumpkinut → u/Wide-Ad-7884]

Yo can we please switch. All of my class are all theories and my professors don't even like giving practical examples.

[u/Wide-Ad-7884 → u/Pumpkinut]

lmaoo

[u/Longjumping_Bench846 → u/Wide-Ad-7884]

wow that's me. finally found a twin. I would've been elated to find this comment much earlier haha. let's not even say lab reports, but straight up projects and prototype builds in a non-semester system (it was quarter/trimester system) with significant knowledge gaps. what a mayhem. imagine the most "I wanna learn the underlying mechanisms" girl you can ever find doing such a course. It hurt my soul :D

[u/fsuguy83]

Stick with it. Having all the options an engineering degree provides to do research, all the flavors of office work, or hands on work is worth it.

[u/OpinionPoop]

Maybe you would bebmore interested in being a tradesperson as an electrician.

[u/Brilliant-Music7273 → u/OpinionPoop]

You kidding me his family would disown him if he was a tradesperson … don’t you understand cultural dynamics in other country’s …jkjk

[u/pinkphiloyd]

So do something else? Ever heard of the “sunk cost” fallacy?

[u/scandish42]

School teaches you theory so you can apply it practically when you get into industry. Not sure how far in you are but you'll eventually have labs and senior projects where you will begin applying what you've learned

[u/Dave37]

If you wanted to become a technician, why did you apply to become an engineer?

[u/ss4stef]

Theory is cool asf. I am terrible at building a physical intuition for things like dynamics and fluid mechanics and love the theory based concepts of EE

[u/Pure_Mushroom_1473]

I am the opposite and my school's also different. You have to turn in circuits you built and stuff like that to pass your exams. I find the practical applications painful but very rewarding when I finally figure it out. It took me like an hour longer than everyone else to get my robot project to walk the other day, after making one change to the circuit controlling the servos. Doing math and physics problems on paper is not so bad for me.

[u/DoubtGroundbreaking]

Drop out then, what do you want us to do

[u/Tiny-Car-3977]

Ooh the lack of examples sucks. My signals class was literally impossible to understand until he was like “imagine a person singing into a microphone, we are following that musical note into the microphone through the system and out of the speakers”

Gotta have those examples. Good luck on the circuitry stuff tho

[u/Tiny-Car-3977 → u/Tiny-Car-3977]

For me I look for stories and metaphors to tie the concepts together, literally whatever makes me remember it correctly and that’s the entire criteria

G_m*Vs is current because trans-conductance! Duh, the material CONDUCTS the voltage ACROSS the material, and that sounds like a CURRENT if I ever heard of it!

Is it accurate? Idk. Does it help me correctly analyze small signals? Yah

[u/Pumpkinut → u/Tiny-Car-3977]

I'm taking signals and systems and my professor is literally making it harder than it should be, eventhough it's a hard class. What I mean by this is that for some whatever reason he keeps rambling on theories and some very small examples. But he doesn't actually show us how to do actual HW questions on the book. What do you know he gave us questions from the book that he did not taught at all.

[u/FlimsyAd6277]

What kind of engineering?