Anyone taking/taken Engineering Physics? Options

[Coomer]

I'm in my first quarter of a year of engineering physics, and I'm always in class every day and paying attention every day, but I just can't grasp the concepts...it all makes sense up on the board when the teacher's doing it, but as soon as I get home and attempt to do the homework, I can't even begin to comprehend what's going on.

I even fully read the textbook chapters and look over all my notes and look up stuff on Google, but at the end of the night I just want to kill myself because I often work for 4-5 hours and get maybe 2 out of 10 problems right. And our homework is online so I face the reality that I'm completely stupid immediately rather than feeling good for the rest of the night and then realizing this fact in class.

Has anyone taken this class? If so, how'd you get through it? Does anyone know of any online resources for learning physics?

I just need to get through it for a couple more weeks, and then I'm changing my major for sure.

[coustoe]

I think very few people who get computer science/engineering degrees actually do research/theoretical work unless you get a graduate degree in that area, if you get a undergrad comp sci degree your job will be coding. there are very very few jobs out there that are low level and require you to develop new data structures/algorithms. Most of it is Application Development, you should look more towards Software Engineering Courses that deal with Software project management, development, design of large systems.

Higher level software design jobs that include Software Architecture pay morethen low level coding jobs (unless you have a phd in comp sci).

Look at Salary.com a Electrical engineer with 3 years of exp averages $57,000 a year while a Content Engineer at 3 years exp averages $92,000

This post has been edited by coustoe: Nov 19, 2004 - 9:05 AM