The University of Texas - Arlington

Date: Dec 21 2013
Major: Electrical Engineering (This Major's Salary over time)
I would suggest completing as many classes at community college before attending this university. The Math courses are designed to make you flunk, especially Calculus. The math books are horrible, they don't explain step by step how to do the problem. The engineering books selected for the courses are also horrible you will understand the book after you completed the course. You cannot survive this university without a tutor. The teachers are horrible they reiterate what is already in the book and they don't teach you extra knowledge. In short they summarize what the chapters say and think they are teaching. The professors get mad if you ask them questions, because they are afraid you will ask a question they can't answer. The students in Introduction to Engineering are bunch of arrogant backstabbing pieces of work. When you attend Introduction to Engineering you will have 3 sections to attend and each section will give you a work load as if it were a 3 credit hour class. So you are going to be bombarded with excessive homework. In one section the homework is so freaking hard it will take you hours to do one homework problem. The professor just gives you formulas to do the homework but he never teaches you how to work the problem. They don't teach engineering like a math class where a professor writes the problem on the chalk board and works the problem. The IEEE lab on campus is not much help. You have Junior level students that can't (it's more like they won't) help you with freshman level homework. Some guys in the IEEE lab will give you stare downs or the evil eye look, because they hope you will go to your counselor and change your major. Experiences with most engineering professors have not been pleasurable, one arrogant S.O.B told me that I will never be an engineer. I had one fat lesbian professor with oily hair and yellow stains under her armpits embarrass me in the auditorium by saying my comment had nothing to do with the discussion, she was explaining about QE and the first in first out theory in logistics, which pertained to industrial engineering. I already understood what she had said and she paused like she wanted some feedback, apparently she was waiting for questions like: Uh…huh… huh ..huh… huh… uh… can you explain first in first out theory again, the theory is so freaking hard to understand, it is actually more difficult to understand than Maxwell's Equations. In one seminar class you have a bunch of engineering students tell you how their relationships failed because they spend more time studying than with their girl friends, one girl claimed that she only slept 10 hours a week. One guy claimed that he stayed awake 2 weeks strait and the screw ball professors just stood their and smiled like that was socially acceptable. Everybody knows that you can't stay up that many hours without drugs. I sat in one class doing a lab and I heard one professor sit next to the students and all he did was make fun of their work. The fat S.O.B. was making comments in the nature of: Do you think that is acceptable to an employer? A girl commented that she did not have enough information on the regulations that pertained to the project. So the professor said when you work as an engineer the contractor is only going to give you the minimal amount of information, it is your responsibility as an engineer to research the regulations and apply that information to your project. Then when the student was trying to explain what he was trying to do the professor was making fun of the way he was talking. Then he got up to look around everybody's work and he said: what the hell is this? How long have you been working on this? Man.. you guys suck! I thought: "students are not paying 1,000 dollars for the course so they can have their rear ends kicked by the professor. To me that seems like a sick way of teaching. I would suggest getting a technical degree at a community college first and then going to the University to get your bachelors in engineering because you won't learn a damn thing at the university, not without a tutor. P.S. you better bring a weapon with you because this school is full of ghetto hood rat people. Students get robbed all the time and one time I was sitting in the Lab doing my assignment and a black guy ran into the room and was getting ready to take my lap top. He didn't take it because he saw me, then he stopped, looked at my laptop and decided not to take it.