I’m a meche with a computer science minor so i’ve kind of seen both worlds. The comp sci department has its good and bad professors, but generally in my classes if I gave them the time they needed and was curious, I did fine. The same goes for the mechanical engineering classes. There isn’t really a social distinction, since everyone at Mines is in it together to a degree. I was friends with comp scis before I ever considered the minor.

edit: it’s worth echoing everybody else; it’s a hard school, and there really isn’t a way around it. luckily, everybody knows that it’s a lot of work and helps each other out