I am in high school right now, a junior. I have a gpa of like 3.9 so I get mostly As (I only got Bs in some crazy hard AP classes) but I like math and science alot! I'm awful at English. I took physics and I absolutely loved it but the first half I did really well (got 100% on the midterm!!!) it was like mechanics super easy stuff so i got like a 95 first quarter but then second quarter I sunk down and ended up getting a 89 in the class :/ it was on like waves and electricity. And that was just normal physics so I am doubting whether or not I am smart enough to be an engineer.. I want to go into either environmental or civil.. Oh I'm in calc now too its kinda hard I got As in precalc and then one B and one A in calc. Can anyone tell me how hard engineering really is???
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Should I rate it on a scale from 1 to 10? :)
I went to an engineering school, and looking around at my classmates at the time, I'd say that a certain amount of ability is necessary, but a willingness to work hard is probably more important.
At the moment, I teach in an engineering school, and I'd still say the same thing. On any particular day, a quarter of my students don't bother to show up for class, and half the class is probably Googling the answers to their homework at least some of the time. Something like 90% of the class doesn't bother to do the "practice" non-graded homework I suggest. Many of these students will fail, and then they'll go around telling people how hard engineering school is. (Well, how hard my class is, anyway.)
You have A's and B's in calculus, and a B in physics. I think you have the "smarts". If you don't let that go to your head so you think you don't need to work in college, I think you can be an engineer.
I went to an engineering school, and looking around at my classmates at the time, I'd say that a certain amount of ability is necessary, but a willingness to work hard is probably more important.
At the moment, I teach in an engineering school, and I'd still say the same thing. On any particular day, a quarter of my students don't bother to show up for class, and half the class is probably Googling the answers to their homework at least some of the time. Something like 90% of the class doesn't bother to do the "practice" non-graded homework I suggest. Many of these students will fail, and then they'll go around telling people how hard engineering school is. (Well, how hard my class is, anyway.)
You have A's and B's in calculus, and a B in physics. I think you have the "smarts". If you don't let that go to your head so you think you don't need to work in college, I think you can be an engineer.
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Having common sense often helps more than being smart.
I mean, really, almost daily someone comes here and asks whether they're smart enough to be an engineer when their lowest math/science grade is an 89. Why would you think getting almost straight A's isn't enough? What more could you do? You don't have to be Stephen Hawking to be an engineer. Not every engineer was a high school valedictorian.
I mean, really, almost daily someone comes here and asks whether they're smart enough to be an engineer when their lowest math/science grade is an 89. Why would you think getting almost straight A's isn't enough? What more could you do? You don't have to be Stephen Hawking to be an engineer. Not every engineer was a high school valedictorian.