general study hours?

jas28

m startin electronic /electrical engineering at manchester uni :smile:

in a few days...

how many hours of lecture(every week) will i have and how many hours practical ?? :confused:

any one who has done this course in recent years pls tell me???

Reply 1

tanc

in general quite a number

not to scare u or anything...
obtain from the facebook group (courtesy of southampton engineers)
You know your studying engineering when…

you come out of a lecture and feel that you wouldn’t mind being hit by a bus.

your doing maths that the maths students don’t cover until the 2nd year.

using a hyphen (-) instead of a minus (&#8722 :wink:

loses you 1% of the module.

you know the Greek and Arabic alphabets better than the language students.

a 4 hour day is an easy day.

a 9 hour day is still an easy day.

your up at 3am in the morning trying to finish yet another piece of coursework asking yourself… why?

shelf stacking at Tesco looks like an attractive career option.

you come out of tutorials feeling like you have just gone 12 rounds with Mike Tyson.

you feel bitter contempt towards anyone complaining of 2 lectures in a row.

someone complains about ‘take away exams’ you feel a sudden urge to hospitalise them.

a lecture on Control Engineering leaves your ass raw and bleeding.

even Sunday starts at 9am.

it’s the norm that you can’t fit an equation on 1 line of a page.

handing in an assignment just means that’s there’s a new one to complete.

time is measured in submission deadlines.

you could run a marathon in the time it takes to do 1 question.

24 hours in a day doesn’t seem enough.

you find out you have 3x as many exams as practically everyone else.

you frequently ask yourself why the **** are you doing this.

your used to covering a ridiculously large span of subjects to the same standard as the respective degree students.

your best friend is your calculator.

Reply 2

tempestuous_temperament

I am going to panic.

Reply 3

jas28

hahaha that gives me a good clue what i should be expecting.lol :eek:

Reply 4

Rachael-VS

I did electronic engineering at Newcastle and in the first year I reckon we were pretty much doing 9-5 every day apart from Wednesday. This included a few hours at a college doing random practical things like fitting lots of components on the smallest sized board we can manage and doing some general wiring. Apart from that we had maybe 6 hours of practicals a week and the rest was lectures. Then we were expected to do just as much work in our free time!

Rachael

Reply 5

jas28

kwl....thnx for the info... i think mine should b similar.