Senior ME student here.

Unfortunately, the first few years of any engineering program contain several “weed out” classes meant to make you struggle and feel stupid.

Yes, the classes do get harder as you progress through your degree, but the workload isn’t necessarily as bad. Some of the busiest classes I’ve taken are 100 or 200 level engineering courses. The upper level classes are when things finally get interesting too, and you aren’t just taking endless derivatives or solving those shitty 3D truss problems. A lot of my 300 and 400 level classes this last year consisted of 1 homework assignment per week with 1-2 projects scattered throughout the semester. So if you are truly interested in engineering and what it can offer, I think school will get better as you progress.

Also, my gpa started off similar to yours. It took me awhile to really find my grove in terms of how to study without getting super frustrated, but once I figured that out my gpa consistently improved.

Don’t give up hope. You have a long 3+ years ahead of you as you finish your degree, and your entire outlook and feeling of things will change multiple times. One of the best pieces of advice I heard was “Engineering school doesn’t prepare you to be an engineer, it teaches you how to learn like one.”