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Offline RickieSaladTopic starter

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Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« on: July 07, 2014, 10:04:28 am »
For all of the official EE's out there.  Is there anything you'd do differently if you had to go back and do your EE degree over again?  Maybe classes you didn't pay enough attention to?
 

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Re: Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« Reply #1 on: July 07, 2014, 11:14:55 am »
I'd have spent a little more time rock climbing and a little less drinking.

Offline Leestons

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Re: Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« Reply #2 on: July 07, 2014, 11:22:18 am »
I wish I took electronics at school instead of product design.
 

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Re: Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« Reply #3 on: July 07, 2014, 12:32:29 pm »
Not an EE but I'd have taken Spanish classes while I could and had the extra time. My university was offering them for free.
 

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Re: Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« Reply #4 on: July 07, 2014, 04:23:31 pm »
Actually, I wish I had spent more time socializing! By the time I really came out of my shell and started going to extracurricular activities I was already really busy.

Aside from that, I wish I had spent more time with robotics, but that is just because of where I ended up in my first job.
 

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Re: Any school regrets or "wish I would have"?
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2014, 05:28:11 pm »
I wish I had forced myself to spend more time on campus rather than going back home as often as I did. I would have given myself less grief if I treated school like a 9-5 job. I could have gotten more work done while on campus which would have given me more time for socializing, fun, and sleep.

I also wish I had chosen something more substantial for my senior project. I basically threw together some things I was interested in working on into one system, purely for the sake of learning and with no real concept guiding the project. The result wasn't really impressive, nor did it solve any problem. I certainly learned a lot from my senior project, but I would rather have had a project worth showing off to people, or a product with which I could potentially have started an enterprise.
 


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