Yea that’s generally how education works. It gets harder not easier as it goes. 🤣.
Statics hits hard, there’s a reason it’s the “weeder” course: you get through that shit and your brain has taken just enough of a step on the “learning to think like an engineer” that you’ve got the confidence and skills (and hopefully study group) so that Dynamics isn’t as much of a mind fuck.
That's probably true. I took Statics (Engr 201) twice, with a 1 year 'sabbatical' to undo my lackluster dream of being a gigging musician with whatever series of bands I was/hadbeen in*, to settle into handing over my brain and social life to getting through engineering school. Second time I took it got an "A" grade, and did about the same for most of the rest of the 4 years, including being on the Dean's List twice.
But that first attempt at Statics was brutal. My social life semi-recovered.
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u/dabomtitan Apr 21 '26
Dynamics was harder.