Is Studying Engineering Hard?

☺️ I needed to hear this. I'm getting ready to do civil engineering and I was nervous due to me being bad at math. Thank you for the motivation

i feel like engineering, especially for freshmen who havent done college before, is not hard but its different from high school. it turns out, you actually have to study to do well in classes. a lot of underclassmen probably also feel imposter syndrome, where they think they dont belong in engineering because they feel like theyre too dumb for it. but if you work hard and remember why your in engineering school in the first place, it is possible to do ok. just wish i could remember that everytime i look at my calc 3 homework.

For me if I'm not a creative or academic student then I would actually have a tough time when it comes to studying engineering

Misunderstood the assignment, accidentally solved the Navier-Stokes Equations.

This is satire btw

A diploma eng engineering is like a scar🤧. I hope i don't fail.

I have adhd and autism. I am now pursuing mechanical engineering at 29

I ended up dropping out of college because the base physics class (physics 211 general physics mechanics at Penn State) made 0 sense to me and I dropped it 3 consecutive semesters because no matter how much I studied, I'd score no more than a 30% on tests. I learned none of what was in the class in highschool and the way they taught the course made it feel like you just needed to be some sort of genius savant who knew everything from birth. The breaking point was during covid when we were allowed to attend campus but had to do classes online. My apartment had no desks, and the only table we had was covered in trash because my 3 roommates were dirtballs despite being English majors and having hours and hours worth of extra time to clean up after themselves. I couldnt focus because I had to do my work laying down so no matter how many hours I studied I couldn't fully focus. I did great in math until covid. I failed calc 1 in my first semester, got the highest grade in the class in the next semester because i hunkered down, did great in trigonometry. Differential equations fucked me. The best class I had was chemistry. First semester I did just as bad in chemistry as I did in the other physics class. Second semester I buckled down and got the best grade in the class, then I got the best grade in the follow up advanced class. But I never found the same luck with physics no matter how much I studied or how I studied, and every chemistry based major I could do required the physics class I couldnt pass in order to graduate.

So yeah, if I could ever describe what Hell is like, Engineering college is HELL. Most STEM majors are HELL.

I think you are way off here. Although I agree with you being successful at Engineering requires a lot of practice, people with IQ of less than 120 should consider another degree. You do need well above average intelligence to get a degree in four years. Also if you complete your undergraduate studies and pass the PE exam well you can consider yourself an Engineer. However if you want to get into real Engineering you will need at least a Master degree and preferably a Phd. Remember at the undergraduate level there are only two Professional degrees which are Engineering and Accounting. Compared to Medicine or law? Entering an Engineering Phd program will not guarentee you receive the degree. You will need to publish your original work in a scientific peer reviewed journal and if you don't? All the work in the world will not get you a Phd. I have seen Phd students struggle over 10 years and walk away with a Master's degree. All you are required to do in Medicine and law is to complete the work. I would not compare an undergraduate Engineering degree to medicine or law which are both post graduate programs. So mastering Engineering is more difficult than you describe.

Here in Norway, Engineering is hard because all the workload the professors force unto you. Each subject is also jabbed with alot of different techniques and concepts. We don't have free-time.

My problem has been that I was too smart for the school. I didn't have to put any hard work whatssoever throughout all my schooling. I therefore didn't develop any work ethic. Now in my late thirties, I have had difficulties maintaining high work standards because it's difficult to concentrate.

This is definitely helped my confidence a lot more than anyone else 🙏🏼

I feel stupid lol

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Question from those with more study experience, if you learn something in class is it better to recap it later that same day or recap it the day after?

I guess the same day means it's real fresh so you won't forget. Doing it on the next day means it isn't as fresh, but you have a nights sleep between so your brain may be more geared up to remember it on a long time frame. What do we think is the better option to maximise productivity if you have little spare time to study (please don't say both, lol, I know both is obvs going to be the best)?

Tamer I've got a question for you if you could tell your teen self anything about going to a Engineering Degree what would you tell them?

Correct we are not bad at math, we weren't given enough attention for this subject during our childhood

Failed out of mech engineering in 2019 before being diagnosed with adhd (I'm also just not that great at math). Thinking about going back. Thank you for this video it was very motivating.

I wish I could do engineering but that math man

Engineering is not complicated, no. But if it requires massive amounts of hard work, it definitively is still hard in that sense

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bro my uni legit has less timetabled classes then that 'watered down' party degree

Now that I have experience with art because I did one year of architecture I can say: for me, art is super difficult, I didn't understand a thing about it and struggle a lot, I really thought that doing architecture will be easiest than engineering but now, wow, I really hate art hahahaha

Totally agree with this, if you want a really hard degree study math or physics lmao. I'm in my junior year of mechanical engineering and decided to get a math minor as it's only 2 extra courses. Both of the math classes I took were way more involved than most of the math I have done in engineering. Writing up an induction proof or learning graph theory can be very abstract and intangible. All the math in engineering directly relates to the real world and I feel like it makes it 10 times easier to solve.

I work as a aircraft technician for 2 years now and im planning to study engineering after summer (idk which direction yet). These videos assure me things will be fine

In my opinion it becomes hard because of the pacing of schedules for exams and quizzes because I have a prof where in he wants us to finish early all the time!

Which means he doesn’t really give us enough time to learn the material and he ends up piling the study load because we also happen to have another exam on another math major on the same day!


When supposedly this prof and his subject is supposed to be doing the exams at a much later date.

no, if you plan for about 50h of work per week then no , its a real world education, if you fly pfv drones, have a 3d printer, build rc cars, or anything similar its gonna be easy , except the times you learn about new concepts (like nonplainar bending (idk if thats the right Translationto english??), fluid dynamics ..🤣, but everyone struggles and it will 100% become 2nd nature after a few times

if youre wanting to party get drunk , not do work etc yes , youll fail

This was really helpful and enlightening to hear a level headed, honest, and fair point of view on the topic. Thank you Tamer!!

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more practice =more time, and time is something we don't have in uni good luck if you have a bad math fundation 🍀

Depending on what type of Engineering you are talking about, some majors may be easier than others.
However, for medicine, there are so many abstract things you have to learn and the workload is heavier because of the complexity of the human body.

Probably depends on your uni mine has dogshit teachers

The hardest thing about engineering isn't the maths, It's the engineering.

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I feel the school

why? I feel the univesity and job again
all the people is in the room

this was so reassuring, i love your channel

Bro you are misguiding

I'm a current engineer studded (CE) who went back to school in my late 20's and am now a few semester from graduating. I have always wanted to make videos about my experience in math, coding, science, and general advice of mistakes to avoid. engineering for me is hard and if I can help anyone with any information let me know.

Can someone please personally guide me? Im taking mining engineering (currently on 5th semester) and i feel so dumb & I can't see future me having a career in mining industry at all 😢

I am an undergraduate student in communication engineering what do you think about it guys ?? I didn’t started yet

I would add, that the material is not harder to understand than other majors materials per say, but you really have nothing to relate it too. When studying communication, you have communicated with people before, or in finance, you have used money before. But I do not think that anyone in my classes had ever dealt with static force structures, or compressible fluids, or anything else. Engineering is hard because everything is new. If you cannot learn brand new things quickly, then it is hard, but if you can then it is not so hard.

Hey bro! I find that all your videos were informative and helpful. I will be taking an electronics engineering technology program in 🇨🇦 this coming winter 2023. I hope you can make a video regarding majoring in electronics and Tips for incoming students like me. Thanks

I think people are pursuing their degree wrong way, I'm currently in my second year of mechatronics engineering. I've learnt which lectures to attend and to which lectures to skip and study on my own. This saves me a lot of time to do other stuff.

Bro I want To do Electrical engineering in UK But my Consultant says me Electrical engineering is A hard and tough major so you can Choose another Subject like business, Arts,Film making but I want to do electrical engineering. Is it really Tough?Can I go for engineering?

Bro post some study tips school just started I’m stressed

The teacher part i understand
In highschool there was this math teacher that was also the coach of a team and he didn't get to ever teach us and in the process we lost out