Got accepted to UT

I have two friends from high school doing biomedical engineering, one of which transferred to UT in the spring of his sophomore year. If there's anything you want me to ask, I'd be happy to.

 

I went to UT and it is blast. Don't expect to meet any girls in your engineering classes though, since the ratio is like 100 boys to 1 girl in engineering school.

My niece is in biomedical engineering and she gets hit on constantly.

 

Awww man, four more years at UT? what a downer.

 

You don't neccessarily have to follow a set curriculum, you can always take extra class here and there, do summer school, and go in with some AP credits, However, I would really recommend taking a slower route, five years. Drop classes you doing badly in half way to save your GPA.

I wished I would've done those that, because it seems as much as companies like well rounded students, without a fairly high gpa, it's almost impossible to get an interview in the first place. And once you do, you probably be competing with 800 other ppl around the country for 60 entry level positions (sorry if I sound bitter, just got turn down after 2 interviews )

 

Hey Mooch,
Im currently in my last semester here at UT.. Im not an engineering major but some of my friends are and I've been told that alot of the harder classes are given during the first year. Try to use the course instructor surveys to find the best (or easiest) profs. and I wouldnt recommend taking anything before 10 o'clock either.

Other than that, goodluck and hook em horns.
Hopefully they'll fire Mack Brown before you graduate.
-nos

 

Electrical Eng. I'm graduating next May (though only 2 classes left since I went kinda fast) and that's why I'm freaking out about the job market.

Also mooch, not freak you out or anything but one of my biomed friends says there were only 5 companies that were hiring bio med during the career fair. He's thinking about changing his tech area into one of the Electrical ones. But it's your first year, so go to the Expo next year and just take a mental note at what industries have more opportunities.

Lastly, since Biomed have similar courses as EE for basic sequence, try to do well on the earlier ones. The trully hard ones imo are the ones that are scheduled between the the semester right before, during, and right after your first major sequence semester. Those 3 semester caused my GPA to drop nearly .5 of points.

 

i'm a business major at UT (i have to do A LOT less work than you )

 

I hate business majors, does a ton less work, have a better job market (well atleast accounting, all the other ones seems to have a tight market too).

P.S. Mooch, some more tips from some one's whose been there, wished would've done that. Get involved early, Student Engineering Council always seems to be looking for memebers at large. However, that still is no where near as good as hands on project (build a robot car or something) as soon as possible, I had several recruiters asked me what kind of projects I lead/contributed to, the awkward silence does not help. Distributing flyers and organizing meetings are nice, but recruiters really would like to see you do somehting more technical. If you didn't have the time do it, then see if you can do your senior design project in the first semester of your senior year, then you can talk about that during the interviews.

Drop classes by the last drop day if you did bad on the first test, the second time around will be easier as you know what to expect and it will definitely save your all important GPA (I wished I would've have done it several times).

Lastly, time will go by fast, try to enjoy it. And if possible, take some no engineering courses, it helps to keep you sane.

 

hey, we do some work...i'm at the business school right now, actually...reading the bbs...i mean doing 'work'

 

I'm in the fifth floor LRC in ENS right now .. reading the bbs ... I mean designing a inverter

 

haha i'm in the millenium lab on the 5th floor of the business school...

 

Congrats!

 

Im in my second year here as an Electrical Engineer. In the begining it will be pretty tough with the programing classses they make u take and the chem/bio classes along with it. Take it as slow as you can. And dont get too worried about your gpa.. most people in the engineering school have pretty "bad" ones.
btw.. labs suck

 

no, i think this guy's lying...only his gpa is bad...and trust me, it's BAD

 

Define bad. From my experience, very rarely does companies give even interviews for entry level/ internship positions for students with lower than 3.2 GPA. Maybe cuz it's only your second year, it gets harder and higher as you go along. All the C and D students fails to make it into major sequence and drops out or change majors. So if you were a B student, you are suddenly bottom of pack, and all the test where the curves used to put you at a B is now a C or D. Heck, half of my classes now just plain don't have curves any more, even though the materials just continues to get harder than your freshmen year.

That's why I said the three semesters for the basic to major sequence is the hardest as that's when most people change majors or drop out. It's a transitional period that imo is even harder than the first 2 semester as far as adjusting.

 

I'm doing Computer Science at UC Berkeley (#1 CS program, right up there with MIT and Stanford ), and if you can graduate with a 3.2 or 3.3 gpa, you should be extremely happy. I guess it depends on what kind of engineering program you're in. The Mechanical engineering and IEOR engineering majors get super high gpa's while not even breaking a sweat. Berkeley just decided to make CS super hard.

My friend transferred from UT CS to Berkeley CS. He had a 4.0 at UT, and let's just say his gpa isn't 4.0 anymore.

With that said, I hate Berkeley CS Oh well, at least it'll be worth it when I graduate $$.