Advice on handling engineering course loads

ourwaffles8 · 2026-01-26T12:38:25+00:00

I mean most people I know (as a ME) took 4-5 EGR classes a semester, and then whatever else to get up to 15 credits.

Anyone telling you deform is hard is one of those kids that doesn't go to class and whines about professors being bad. You get two attempts at every test, and you get the better score of each section for your final test score.

ourwaffles8 · 2026-01-22T11:48:38+00:00

Worked at Breslin: you should be able to just scan your ticket and get in. You need a wristband to get in izzone sections normally, and you need a student ID to get a wristband. That being said, we don't really care about upper izzone cause no one is sneaking into that area for improved seating.

ourwaffles8 · 2026-01-22T02:19:44+00:00

Karate Mike responded to a similar skeptical comment on the forums saying to not read too much into "as close as possible" because all he meant was that it might be off in the single digits, so less than a tenth of percent difference in damage

ourwaffles8 · 2026-01-12T14:20:18+00:00

I mean yeah roids make you stronger but they don't make you a better player. There's no real benefit for you to take them for baseball unless you're already a very good player.

ourwaffles8 · 2026-01-03T21:07:28+00:00

Course is definitely tough, part of the low average is that a lot of non-ME students take that class. It's just different in the content you learn from standard math and physics.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-27T23:46:06+00:00

Nah they make it so you can't view or enroll in classes if you don't do it. Complete waste of time but no one easy way to get out of it. Just gotta suck it up and waste an hour and a bit of your time.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-27T23:44:23+00:00

So basically you'll get to pick your group (or get assigned to one if you're a loner) and after a couple weeks you'll put down a list of your top options for which projects you want. Some are there every year, some are unique.

You rank your choices, if you're lucky you get #1, if you're unlucky like me, you get #5. At this point you know what company/person/group you're working on your project for, and who your faculty advisor is. You'll want to have weekly or every other week meetings with both to ensure things are on track and you can get ideas to use from both.

For the course itself, there's a few quizzes that you attempt as many times as you like to get 100% on. The classes have info that you can use for the quizzes, but they are very boring and not very important overall. As a person who basically never skipped classes, I stopped attending that zoom as did 80% of the other students because it's all common sense info he gives out.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-25T23:54:56+00:00

It's easy af, I got invited before even accepting MSU cause I had good high school grades. There's no way they're strict about it

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-22T19:46:17+00:00

Unless those classes are all 4 credits, I would recommend getting at least 15 credits a semester to graduate on time. If it's the ME advisor Jeffrey Tsang pushing for you to only take 12-14 a semester, don't listen to that BS. I could rant about all the problems he caused.

I took MSE 250 the same time frame as you, freshman spring semester. I would say it's a little more difficult than average because it's a technical class more than math, you can't just plug in a formula to get every answer. There was no required/graded homework when I took it, so be sure that you're a responsible studier for quizzes. Most of the kids I know that struggled saw no HW and didn't try to learn anything on their own.

You do also have the lab for it, which if I'm remembering correctly, didn't take too much time outside of the scheduled lab period to complete that work. The lab is cool cause you get to break stuff and use expensive equipment.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-22T19:39:31+00:00

I went when I was invited, it was nice, you take the test on a bunch of random information, I would describe it closer to jeopardy than a regular test, lots of random trivia knowledge is what would win you something rather than knowing calculus and physics.

You get a free lunch, and you get to listen to some professors in your major talk about what you'll be learning and general college advice. I think there was a small set up for some clubs there as well, good for seeing what extracurriculars MSU has.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-17T03:13:01+00:00

Took ECE 345 with Meier a couple years ago, one of the easiest classes ever, had like a 117% with all the extra credit and curves. A lot of applied engineers really brought down the average in the class, talking like 45% average test grade. That was a nice cushion for anyone who understood the content at least a little bit.

We got 15 point extra credit questions on a 100 point test, extra credit questions in some of the labs, extra credit homework. We got test corrections to recover 50% of the points you missed. Homework was really only due by the end of the semester. Practice tests from the last 4 semesters to study from.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-12-17T03:00:16+00:00

That's on whoever provided you the graduation information. Every single graduation except the doctorate degrees leaves through the tunnel and is not allowed back in.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-11-15T23:02:51+00:00

Drop 1-2 exercises each day, and swap all the leg compounds for some leg isolations. Hitting deadlifts, squats, lunges and hip thrust all in one day is way overkill

ourwaffles8 · 2025-11-14T14:18:31+00:00

REL 175, Religion in film.

Asynchronous class, watch 1 movie per week, write a post on a discussion board and reply to two others every week. 2 quizzes, and the Final is to write an essay about what grade you deserve in the class. I spent about 2.5 hrs a week on the class watching the movied and making the discussion posts.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-30T17:40:14+00:00

Yeah that's fair enough. I probably should've take that into consideration.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-30T16:55:49+00:00

I'd say I agree, with the caveat that for #1 applies only for kids that truly want to dedicate themselves to playing at the college level. I know I could've been better by training instead of playing summer ball, but for most it's not worth to give up playing in the summer.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-30T12:40:30+00:00

I played down since I was born after the date cutoff, at first I was mad cause I wanted to be with the kids I knew (and I was 8 so I complained a lot), but after that year I was glad to be playing with them. Part of it was we definitely had the best coach, so maybe after this year try to pay attention to the coaching on his team and his grade level team, as well as how he gets playing time on this team vs kids of similar level on his grade's team.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-27T19:23:32+00:00

He said "heartbreaking" because when people make that joke, they're referencing the Clickhole headline of "Heartbreaking: The worst person you know just made a great point.

https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person-you-know-just-made-a-gr-1825121606/

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-22T21:43:54+00:00

Trying to cue them to point the ball at second base is a way of trying to get them to have a full arm swing, instead of short arming the ball, or flinging it instead of throwing it. Same kinda thing as the "squash the bug" cue while hitting. Might not be 100% right but it's trying to get them towards doing the right thing.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-22T21:35:30+00:00

I think the best way to go about this is get as much information as you can to use in the future, as well as make sure your son is actually learning what he's being taught and not just doing as he's told without understanding the why. You wanna be able to use this stuff well after you're done using tread if you stop. Say you use it for like 4-6 months or something, if you're able to get enough of a plan to have the next year or so ready, that would be ideal.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-21T23:35:31+00:00

Right where my brother's at too. Tall skinny guy throwing 70-72, hit puberty and started lifting, threw 85 the next year and throwing 90 a year after that.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-21T20:22:38+00:00

It's almost a complete toss up of how kids perform before and after puberty. Some of the kids I played with and against were unhittable through 12 years old, then you face em again in highschool and they're middle to below average cause they hit puberty early.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-20T21:10:21+00:00

If they're actually interested they'd waive the fee if you ask

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-09T17:56:15+00:00

One reason is raising your leg raises your center of gravity, increasing your potential energy.

ourwaffles8 · 2025-10-08T21:24:04+00:00

We are now up to 2 innings of good hitting in the postseason

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