Civil Engineer Social Life?

depends you doing an apprentaship or the full degree?

im part time and do one day a week (first year 9-6) second year (2-9).

which is usually complemented with an hour in the pub to lubricate the rest of lecture time. most of the stuff is pritty straight forward once you get the hang of it. just remember to make your reports look pritty and you'll get your 40% for the first year pass.

as for working as a civil engineer, depends if your boss likes to drink to. generally end up in the pub 4 days a week at lunch times. especially as the british goverment is pulling funding on almost all the big civils jobs.

Overall depends how well you can cope with the workload. first year is fairly basic

Thanks and I meant studying as a Civil Engineer in Uni

Hey guys,
I am going to study Civil Engineering this fall and wondering what the social life is, if there is one :O.
I am prepared to work but hopefully not to the extent where I have absolutely no free time.
What is it like?

No one's disputing that. However, to say that the subject itself is irrelevant is completely wrong. You can be as motivated, active and sociable as you want- if you had the workload of a medical student, you wouldn't be able to lead an extensive social life. Engineering is tough work, and the OP needs to know that.

One of my friends studies Civil Engineering, and while he complained about the workload, he went out wayyyy more than I did, and he played lots of sports. So, you shouldn't have a problem.

oh ffs can we stop having these stupid questions?? your social life can be as good as you make it its not what subject you do, its about you! you can do engineering and still have a brilliant social life or you can do some other subject that you dont have to go lectures and still have a **** social life! its all about what YOU do with your ******* life not what subject you do!

Work hard play harder

I'm an engineering student and I can go out, I can play sports and go to the gym. I can't **** around for whole afternoons playing that farm game thing on Facebook, though

so true. Last 4 weeks of the year before exams my ex had intensive modules every day, and had to balance study on top of that somehow. ALso now is on a summer placement with Costain doing 12 hour days. On both these occasions he would often miss at least 1 meal (if he didn't have to work so much he would be able to eat a lot more) and then they'd go get ridiculously pissed after work..

Which is good I suppose coz you spend less money getting yourself drunk than you otherwise would (lowered tolerance..)

Er... what? If its a 12 hour day I'm assuming he's on site where a hangover/still being drunk the next morning is deemed dangerous for him and others around him! Costain must also do random drug and alcohol testing just like the other big contractors. Tell him to be careful!

Civil eng is arguably considered to be one of easiest engineering disciplines. The male:female ratio is considerably better comparing to other engineering courses, which is a good thing.
So putting these 2 in the same equation we get that social life is pretty good.

So putting these 2 in the same equation we get that social life is pretty good.

With logic like that I wouldn't even employ you to make my tea.

You can, of course, socialise with people outside your own subject... which is a good idea if you want to experience topics of conversation other than concrete / electronics / thermodynamics / whatever you are studying. Most of my social activities through uni were society-based, so the only way in which they depended on my subject was how much free time I had to do them in!