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| Major: Engineering Department (This Major's Salary over time) | | Gender: Male | This student rated most things higher than other students did. | Intelligence:
Quite Bright | | ACT: | | SAT: 1410 | | Lowest Rating
Individual Value B- | Describes the student body mostly as:
FriendlyDescribes the faculty mostly as:
Friendly | Highest Rating
Useful Schoolwork A+ | How this student rated the school:
| Educational Quality | A | Faculty Accessibility | B+ | | Useful Schoolwork | A+ | Excess Competition | B+ | | Academic Success | A+ | Creativity/Innovation | B | | Individual Value | B- | University Resource Use | A+ | | Campus Aesthetics/Beauty | A- | Friendliness | B+ | | Campus Maintenance | B+ | Social Life | B | | Surrounding City | A+ | Extra Curriculars | A+ | | Safety | B- |
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I
see many similar reviews about campus life that I saw
when I was first looking at schools. Sure, there
are lots of other schools where the campus life is
one big party - but you can make Tech what
you want it to be. My biggest recommendation for
enjoying campus life is to get involved. I was
in a fraternity, which was a positive experience for me.
I gained friends, support, and many extracurricular activities to
join in that helped make my “not studying time” more
enjoyable. But you don't have to go Greek to
enjoy Tech. All of my classmates in my major
(Materials Engineering) were not Greek. Being a small major,
we all were friends. But I noticed a split
between them. It seemed like the ones who hated
their time at Tech weren't involved in anything; while those
who enjoyed Tech were involved in other clubs or intramurals.
By getting involved, you get to know more people.
Which leads to having more friends. Which leads
to being able to find someone else who's free to
hang out when you're free. And that's what makes
the college experience enjoyable. Outside of my advice for making
Tech an enjoyable experience, Tech is a lot of work.
And if you ignore that, you'll either be failing
out or struggling to pass as you learn that each
successive class builds on the classes you ignored last semester.
When I came to Tech, I was the only
student from my high school that went there. I
didn't know anyone and I'm not a social butterfly, so
I took a long time to make friends. I
was hating my school choice when I first started at
Tech. But I think it helped me, because I
spent more time getting all my school work done and
ended up doing well my first semester (we were actually
on a quarter system then, but I'm just going to
call them all semesters here, for simplicity). Once you
get about halfway through Tech, those foundation courses are the
basis for all your upper-level coursework (which don't usually do
as much piggy-backing on each other like the initial coursework
does). So, doing well in those first couple years
is important in making it out of Tech. Messing
up in a later course, probably won't hurt you -
although you probably won't have that problem if you did
well in your foundation courses. My last bit of advice
is to co-op. This was the best thing I
did while at Tech. It puts (GOOD) bread in
your pocket (unlike my high school friends who were still
working “high school” summer jobs). I co-oped my second
semester at Tech. I got the job before they
even saw a single Tech grade. I actually worked
in Atlanta and stayed on campus, which meant that I
had money and free time to hang out with the
other students. These were some of the most fun
semesters. And the experience I gained helped tremendously in
landing job interviews for after graduation. It also extended
my time as a student and gave me these free
semesters to enjoy Tech as if I was at one
of those other party schools. Lastly, while I do
think Tech is still an engineering school and doesn't even
attempt to masquerade as anything else, with an engineering degree
you can find employment in almost any other field of
work - not just engineering. I know fellow engineering
graduates that graduated to manage stores, start their own businesses,
work as finacial assistants for stock brokers, become real estate
agents, and more. An engineering degree is treated almost
like a “general” degree if you want to get higher
education in something else: medical, law, business, etc. And
I think a lot of higher institutes give you bonus
points for getting an engineering degree when they evaluate you,
because I know a lot of fellow engineering majors that
didn't have very good grades but got into many good
grad schools. Like they say, Tech won't hand hold
you. But, if you graduate from Tech, you'll realize
that Tech really taught you how to succeed at anything
on your own. And that will make the next
40 years of your life a lot better than those
party-school graduates who don't like what they're doing and don't
know how to do anything else.
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