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Originally Posted by Beefcake
Nobody I took the program with would agree with this statement. First year kicked my butt. I thought it got easier in the 3rd and 4th years, after they were done trying to weed out those who couldn't hack it, and you've gotten used to the insane workload.
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Yeah, but a few people in this thread do.
Obviously, it's a matter of opinion.
As I said, from my experience, the fundamentals they threw at me in first year (voltage/current laws, basic programming fundamentals, elementary physics) were challenging, but not as tough as the concepts they introduced in the later years (Maxwell's equations, application of quantum mechanics, etc.).
In addition to trumping the first year in terms of complexity, I found that my workload was substantially increased in the later years of my degree. Labs were more difficult, reports were required to be longer, and the final project began to take away an enormous amount of study time which I used to have devoted for my courses. The level of understanding required to attain the same letter grade in a course in 3rd/4th year, compared to that required in a 1st year course, in my opinion, was much greater. Answers required not only the correct numerical answer any more, but professors wanted the students to also show a true understanding of the material through the process in which the student arrives at the solution.