There's more to starting electrical engineering than just the classes themselves.
Here's a list of 6 More Things We Wish We'd Known Before Studying Electrical Engineering.
#1 Engineers need social skills
The supposedly stereotypical engineer has no social skills and that's something we've joked about as  well
but the reality is that the ability to interact with other people is just as important for engineers as other people.
Your ability to work in teams and resolve disputes will make a huge difference
in how much you learn and the opportunities you have both in and after school.
#2 If the theoretical stuff in class bores you, that's not necessarily a bad thing.
You're studying engineering and while theory is important,  let's be honest
if you were that excited about theory, you would probably be studying to be a physicist or mathematician.
#3 TI-89 or other powerful calculators are great but use them carefully.
You need to learn how to survive without an expensive calculator for a lot of reasons.
Two big ones are: One, you never know when a teacher will even allow them to be used.
So, if you're too dependent you're going to be in trouble
Two, and more importantly it's better to get an intuitive sense of what's going on with your calculations
than to get six significant digits of a number that doesn't actually mean anything to you
#4 How you approach school and what you do there is just as if not more important than the school itself.
It drives us crazy when TV shows MIT students being orders of magnitude,
smarter than everyone else, always hacking into the Pentagon.
In, reality while MIT is an amazing school.
If you go to state school and work hard and apply everything you learn as much as you can,
It'll be much more effective than barely skimming by at MIT.
#5 Speaking of school, you need to accept the fact
that some professors are just going to be rude and treat you like an idiot.
Despite social skills being important,
professors sometimes suffer in this department and can be rude and belittling
It sucks but it's important to not stop asking questions
and keep trying as hard as you can even
if you hate the teacher
ability to read and write is just as
important as the ability to do math ask
almost any engineer and they will tell
you that they have to write a lot more
as professionals than they were
expecting reports emails proposals grant
or job applications technical
specifications there's a lot of things
in engineering to write about being a
well rounded engineer that can at least
kind of spell and put together an
intelligible sentence we
help you in any position you'll hold
these are six more things that we wish
we known before we started studying
engineering thanks for watching and go
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