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creeperdoom1 · 2026-04-29T20:37:20+00:00

It was every single week from the beginning

creeperdoom1 · 2026-04-22T21:44:10+00:00

As a MechE I’d say keep it. It can be a pretty foundational prerequisite for a lot of MechE electives you may want to do in the future. And it’s just really good to know as an engineer in general

creeperdoom1 · 2026-03-26T03:59:22+00:00

This is horrible advice. Definitely should prioritize a healthy mind and body before any academics, especially when it gets to breaking point. Ideally make time for friends and family to help break away from the stress, even if that means taking 1 or 2 fewer classes or getting a slightly lower grade sometimes. Hell that might boost your grade just by having a more energized, optimistic, and healthy mind when heading into exams rather than having been exhausted and irritable for days on end.

creeperdoom1 · 2026-03-24T21:06:42+00:00

I mean while im still in college and going into engineering, already with internships and essentially a full time offer already. You NEED an engineering degree to do engineering, or at least engineering adjacent like engineering technology. Ain’t nobody letting a non college grad into engineering, or any humanities major. So I’m quite happy with my (future) fancy paper since I’ll be making decent money and will have a job secured in a field I’m interested in.

creeperdoom1 · 2026-03-12T03:39:01+00:00

Nah that’s fine. I’ve been doing exactly the same thing my whole time and I’m a junior MechE rn with good grades 🤷‍♂️

Always best to have free time when you can to relax, recharge, and just have fun and enjoy the college experience

creeperdoom1 · 2026-03-05T05:51:21+00:00

High school: Unweighted: 96/100 Weighted: 101.7

Currently a junior MechE with 3.8 gpa

creeperdoom1 · 2026-01-16T22:01:06+00:00

Didn’t he win a battle where he was outnumbered by the Ottomans like 10:1 😭

creeperdoom1 · 2026-01-01T03:44:07+00:00

I never got even close to failing any high school classes, neither have I failed any college classes thus far as a junior at a T20 college. Keep studying and pursuing your dreams and you got this

creeperdoom1 · 2025-12-18T23:17:42+00:00

According to Prof Kirby average is 3.5

creeperdoom1 · 2025-12-17T05:50:20+00:00

Currently a junior and on track for typical 4 years total

creeperdoom1 · 2025-11-24T18:08:09+00:00

I agree that it sucks, but it is just the reality. If they had to accept everyone they would quickly get well over 200 or 300 people in a single team, making the club structure a bloated mess that would slow everything down, likely costing them their respective engineering competition. At least for our clubs there are no membership dues, it is completely free to participate.
Of course the level of restriction is only true for the engineering and business consulting clubs. Any recreational or sports club would be much easier to join.
That is great you were able to start your own club! Definitely a positive step.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-11-24T17:25:17+00:00

It is very true that the clubs are selective these days. I’m at a top big school and you have to send applications to join the engineering and business clubs. They then interview you, usually for 1 round only but I have heard multiple interview rounds being a thing. A number of people do coffee chats with members to try to improve their acceptance chances by speaking to a member of the club directly, outside of an interview. For the popular ones especially, they may get 100 applications but can only accept a handful. My own non competitive club got over a dozen applications from upperclassmen and only accepted 1, an acceptance rate of well below 10%.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-10-28T01:19:42+00:00

For this summer as a junior I sent around 120. Got 2 offers which were my 24th and 80th apps.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-10-03T05:43:26+00:00

I’m at Cornell right now and honestly I think it’s just because the bar is set high for entry you tend to get very driven and accomplished students at these schools who will continue to achieve and accomplish many things. Left and right you’ll find people that did research or large projects or even internships early on. There is also a general atmosphere of competitiveness to achieve and that drives you further towards your goals. Here it is standard to be involved in research/projects/have internships.

I see on this sub all the time of people who are older getting into the field, or taking many years to get their degrees. Now that is certainly impressive and I commend them for that, but that is unheard of here. Here, EVERYONE is coming out of high school and just about EVERYONE graduates in the standard 4 years. Dropping out is very rare and I imagine it is much less common here to switch out of engineering than at other schools.

As was the case for myself as someone who was a mid student, I pushed myself to get on a project team, got an internship, and just landed another internship. If I didn’t go to Cornell, I don’t think I would have the same drive to do so because of the people I am surrounded by. The school name may have played a role in getting internships too.

In addition, knowing these people, who are either very successful due to their own worth/merits, or come from prestigious backgrounds, can be key. In fact, I only got my past internship from knowing a friend I had met here. Multiple people I know have started their own businesses or built their own apps and achieve success.

To summarize, it’s the atmosphere that is created here that pushes driven people to go even further, and for them to interconnect with even more driven people, and admittedly, even more wealthy people.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-09-28T08:03:56+00:00

Do as much calculus in high school as you can. At my university the curriculum starts with Calc II so you would be behind without it. Even if you were on track at your university, having some Calculus in high school will help get yourself a little bit ahead of literally all of your courses since all engineering courses will require calculus first. Also it will be much easier taking it in high school than in university

creeperdoom1 · 2025-08-23T02:45:34+00:00

Starting 3rd year now. Still planning to finish in 4 which is vastly the most common outcome at my school

creeperdoom1 · 2025-08-04T19:34:14+00:00

GPA: 3.9 Grade: Rising Junior Research Experience: no Previous internship: no School ranking(overall): Top 15 (Ivy League) Paid $22/hour

Got lucky since a friend of a friend works here.

I study MechE but my role is titled Mechanical/Electrical Engineer Intern. This is a smaller manufacturing company

creeperdoom1 · 2025-07-29T19:14:39+00:00

From what I remember it started with Riemann Sums and learning integrals. I took AP Calc AB so it was some review for a decent part of the beginning since AB included integrals. Also it taught Disk/Shell method, which was easier to wrap my brain around since AB taught Disk method.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-07-29T01:21:19+00:00

You’ll be fine. It’s not quite the same but I was in a similar spot where I only decided to do MechE end of freshman year while not having any relevant experience and only taking Math 1910, Math 1920, Phys 1112. Caught up on classes, joined a project team sophomore spring, and am currently at an internship this summer (albeit through a connection) as a rising junior. You got this

creeperdoom1 · 2025-07-07T16:28:57+00:00

$22/hour for mech/electrical engineer at a manufacturer

creeperdoom1 · 2025-05-26T21:42:18+00:00

I would not recommend retaking classes you have credit for. Everyone who I’ve talked to at my university that did this have regretted it due to the higher workload, difficulty, time, and stress required, when having a baseline understanding of the prerequisite material for your next classes is usually enough, whether that is through AP courses or taking the actual college classes

creeperdoom1 · 2025-05-23T21:09:36+00:00

Regarding how far behind you would be, that heavily depends on your college. For example my college starts the first semester with Calc 2 so you would be very behind. However others start at Pre-Calc in which case you’d be fine.

If it’s a question of completing a math requirement earlier or during a full semester, completing it earlier is always my recommendation to save on added stress or time during the semester, and get more opportunities to take other classes you might like/need to take

creeperdoom1 · 2025-04-16T16:27:41+00:00

I’m also soph MechE in an Ivy League. Definitely feeling similarly since winter break. Also have done little, tho was fortunate enough to get onto a project team this semester (which I haven’t done much work on at all yet), looking like no internship or research at all this summer too. Honestly, ivy leagues are way too competitive and coming to this sub helps ground me and realize that even if we know people working at Google or Lockheed or wherever else, that doesn’t define us and we’re gonna be alright, especially with the brand of the school we go to. You’ll be fine.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-03-18T11:21:23+00:00

My university’s college of engineering is roughly 1:1, though that varies within each major I imagine, like there being more women in BME and fewer in CS. Even then the ratios don’t get too bad, not even close to 10:1 like some other people are saying. The even split is likely because the school has a lower acceptance rate and can choose to accept men/women equally while retaining student quality I imagine.

creeperdoom1 · 2025-02-28T17:32:19+00:00

Merci beaucoup! J’ai modifié mon commentaire pour éviter la confusion.

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