r/EngineeringStudents

I got rejected from every club at my school. For some reason, they are so picky and have so few spots. Like the FSAE team had nearly 300 applicants and took maybe 7-8. I kid you not, the fsae application I wrote was nearly 3500 words in total. Every application took hours and an average of 1500-2000 words. I got interviewed by rocketry but got rejected from that too. Every single club has applications and are picky. What should I do now? I want to do aerospace engineering related stuff. Im in second-year mechanical.

I'm currently in my sophomore year, and I'm trying not to rely on AI as much as possible. But when I see my classmates around me blatantly cheating on their assignments and exams with it, I can only fear what is to come 10 to 20 years from now. Why am I even putting in all this effort when GPT can do everything better than I can? What purpose do I serve, and to what end? By the time I graduate three years from now, it will be even more advanced. Why would anyone hire me when I will not be able to hold a candle to this technology? I'm excited for the advancements that will come with this revolution, but I feel afraid, and I'm not really sure what to do. I have an exam tomorrow, and I have zero motivation to study for it since AI knows it all better than I do, so what's the point? I feel as though only the brightest minds will be able to contribute in any way as time goes on. As an average Joe, I feel hopeless.

I get 8 hours of sleep or even more most nights, I work out and I eat generally good. I don't stay up very late like I used to. I'm still so tired all the time and falling asleep at my desk while studying, I just cannot study properly because it's sucking all the energy out of me constantly! And I'm not doing well in my classes despite studying so much. Before anyone mentions caffeine, I do drink caffeine and it helps for maybe 5 minutes before doing nothing to me and honestly most times I get even more tired after drinking it. I drink either an 8oz redbull, or a Celsius or an espresso latte from Starbucks. So none of these help majority of the time. Every day at around 1-3 pm I'm just so tired that I cannot even stand I need to sleep or lay down it actually hurts to be standing or sitting I need to lay down. I only study well in the morning or evening after the sun goes down, but in the morning i have class and that also takes a lot of my energy. I take iron vitamins and regular vitamins too. Any tips?

I think I making this post for 2 reasons: 1) I want attention. 2) I want a solution to the problem.

I have been in engineering for 4 years now. I have 2 more years to go. All my friends have graduated and are making money, going out, etc, etc. Typical adult things that I really want to be a part of. Yet here I am drinking, alone, on a Saturday night. Drinking whiskey alone. My friends are out celebrating UGA beating bama. I haven't hung out with them in months because I have recently gained weight the past few weeks(stopped going to the gym as soon as the semester started) and classes aren't going well.

I know the end solution is I just need to get over myself, but why can't I do that. Why the hell am I writing this post or watching movies or drinking instead of just studying and finishing school. It's really annoying and I am aware my problems are pathetic.

I know I am smart enough to finish an engineering degree. I have aced exams in hard classes(I got a 100% on a difficult diff eq exam once). I don't know why I just don't work. Genuinely this is pathetic. Just study.

I have just recently picked up the idea of drinking alone. I have had a bottle of whiskey my brother bought me for my birthday. It sat there for years; I never had the idea of drinking in a non social context. Things are getting worse. I've done it 3 nights in a row.

I wish I had somebody that could just punch me in the face and make me study.

I guess I am really embarrassed about graduating late and I also seem to get easily overwhelmed from workloads that I am capable of handling. Any words of encouragement/objective advice would be helpful. I feel so stupid. I don't know what my problem is.

I made sure to double check my grammar and spelling since I am sloshed,

Edit: thanks for responding everyone. It’s helped

i am so sick and tired of being sick and tired. got my associates. started uni after transferring, commuting every day. last fall was rough i was working 50 hour weeks on a 223 schedule doing two classes. spring time i started working remotely. but this summer i started getting really sick again. these flare ups have been a mystery but it’s been so bad i can’t do any of my work or concentrate on anything, retain information because of the pain. i already had to take an I/IF for two classes. I’ve been in college since 2022. and really am starting to become resentful 1) about being sick 2) about not dedicating more time when i was younger to learning more. now i feel so behind and my illness set me back even more. i’m debating dropping out if my midterms come back and it turns out i did shit, and working/saving money and moving in for a bit with my friend at USC los angeles (off campus) as a reset and to figure out what i need to do.

Hi everyone, for context I am in my 3rd year for my Mechanical Engineering B.S. currently enrolled in Fluid dynamics and I cannot wrap my head around Navier Stokes problems or even really how to understand the equation itself.

My professor said that he can only really give us Couette-Flow type of problems, so I have been looking for like "The organic chemistry tutor" type of videos to help explain this kind of stuff to me, and I have not been able to find anything good or relevant. We only spent a week on it in lecture and now we're doing fluid kinematics which ive barely spent alot of time on either because I am still trying to make sure I am good with Navier-Stokes.

Does anyone have any good suggestions for those type of explanation videos? I would really appreciate it! 🙏

I'm also enrolled in dynamic systems, linear algebra, and calc 3, I just spent a couple days catching up on linear and calc 3, now I'm behind in systems and fluids, it's kind of been like an endless back and fourth all semester where, when I'm caught up on one side, I'm behind on the other. So if anyone has any tips for not getting stressed with all of these, I would also really appreciate it!

Also, I know it's a little different for someone to be taking calc 3 in their 3rd year like this, my sequencing got a little messed up due to a bad first semester, and I have taken Calc 1-2, diff eqs, with A's and B's in both, now taking calc 3 and linear which I hope to land A's in as well. I don't think I'm struggling with fluids because of that though. Fluids being a beast of a class seems to be a sort of universal thing.

Thank you for everyone's time!

My schools career fair was a little less than two weeks ago. By this time have companies already reached out to students they are interested in for jobs or internships? Or does it typically take longer than 2 weeks?

all the periodic table is either missing a thing or two or completely non-existent, i have to use 3 different tables become one only has oxidation numbers, the other has a bunch of stuff but no oxidation number, and the last one is so washed down like something for kids (NOTE THESE WHERE THE TABLES OUR PROF GAVE). Its come to a point where I'm considering building my own periodic table.

So I have Asian parents (who would have guessed lol) but they're not strict. For whatever reason they think the job market is really easy and that if you go to college and earn a degree you can get a job easily. I'm doing electrical engineering and I'm trying my best: doing projects, applying for internships and basically the things you do. My mom literally said that if you have a degree but can't find a job you shouldn't have got the degree in the first place. I don't know how to tell them that it's not that easy and they should not have high expectations otherwise it would not end well.