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The reality with engineers having to take 6 courses every other semester or so is that it's usually broken down like this:

1 fluff course - the new EE design courses are particularly hilarious in how useless they are. I think they're actually trying to up the difficulty but it was laughable when I did them.

3 easy courses where the prof just recycles old questions/exam structures so all you have to do is show up, take notes, and work enough problems before exams.

2 difficult courses.

I imagine the social sciences have it just as hard in that they have to take 5 courses, but have to write a big paper or project for each of them. They also have a substantial amount more reading to do.

That being said, I don't dispute that life is difficult in chemical engineering. They have quite a few more real courses than electrical.

Probably also doesn't help my perspective that pretty much everything in electrical engineering originates in two fundamental components: Fourier transforms and Maxwells equations. Once you have these two things down you're pretty much set.