Accepted to UCSD... Aerospace Engineering

[ILSstud]

WAY hotter chicks in San Diego vs San Luis Obispo.

Unfortunately, you'll have to compete for their attention with all the Marines down there, most of whom are probably more buffed than you.

Assuming that as an engineering student he knows how to deal with girls

 

[aviatoralex]

I just accepted the admissions contract tonight, so I think it's safe to say that I'm enrolling at UC San Diego this fall for my B.S. in Aerospace Engineering.

I've spent the last couple years at a community college in the SF Bay Area building up my pre-reqs in math, physics and engineering, and I'm coming in as a transfer student. I'm still in shock that I got in, got the major even though it's impacted, and got the residential college I wanted. I was so sure back in high school I was bound for collegiate aviation, yet changing priorities (and reading JC) has led me down this totally different and equally exciting path.

It's going to be hard, but I can't wait to get started. San Diego here I come!

:nana2::beer::nana2:

I am considering Aerospace Engineering, so if you can, PLEASE keep us posted on any info you can provide!

 

[inigo88]

Assuming that as an engineering student he knows how to deal with girls

WELL played sir. :beer:

You're gonna have to take me on my word that I can deal with girls. Remember that I'm a transfer student and I was a couple of years behind on my pre-reqs due to the fact that I was out having a social life and flying and being a normal person - not exactly the usual engineering student behavior. I keed I keed.

In fact, I think coming into the major a little late in the game has been positive because I have a much better idea of what to expect, what will be expected out of me, and I've proven to myself that I can do it (by making it this far).

WAY hotter chicks in San Diego vs San Luis Obispo.

Unfortunately, you'll have to compete for their attention with all the Marines down there, most of whom are probably more buffed than you.

Dude you got that right... I'm not that in shape! We shouldn't single out the Marines, don't forget everyone down at NAS North Island too! Somehow I think I'll persevere, I'm a glass half-full kind of guy. :crazy:

 

[inigo88]

I am considering Aerospace Engineering, so if you can, PLEASE keep us posted on any info you can provide!

You got it. I'm already 2+ years into the basic classes you would start off taking your freshman and sophomore year.

Plan on being completely done with Intermediate Algebra, Trigonometry & Pre-Calculus/College Algebra before leaving high school. In your freshman & sophomore year you will be expected to take two straight years of math. I was on the semester system and had to take a semester each of Calculus I, Calc II, Analytic Geometry & Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra and Differential Equations. I doubled up on Linear and DiffEQ this semester which has been tough.

Also try and take a high school physics class if you can, just to get some idea of what you'll be exposed to down the road. Freshman & sophomore year of college plan on three semesters (or quarters) of physics split between Classical Mechanics, Electricity & Magnetism, and then they usually put Fluid Mechanics/Waves/Thermodynamics/Sound/Optics and Quantum together into the last class. Also take chemistry as early as possible, since you'll need at least the first class in the General Chem series.

I've made it through most of that, and now I hear airplanes and the design of said airplanes is going to eventually enter the curriculum somewhere. Can't wait! :beer:

(Just kidding, I know what to expect from the upper division curriculum. There's just a ton of stuff you have to sift through to get there.)

If you're interested there are a ton of university AE program course descriptions online, and example schedules of how all the classes will fit together sequentially over 4+ years.

Regards,

Inigo

 

[hook_dupin]

Congrats Buddy,

That's great! I started off as an Aero Eng major at Maryland...but I am gonna give you the same piece of advice that a former supervisor gave me 13 yrs ago when I was an intern at NASA. Pick a major that doesn't pigeonhole you into a single industry.

Dilla's right. I currently work as both a flyer and an engineer in the military flight test world. Aerospace Defense companies now have many more non-Aero engineers than Aero guys. Consider something more broad like ME or EE.

Also, keep up the hard work. Sure, chasing girls is fun now...but it's alot more fun when you make 6 figures at age 30 because you busted your ass in college. I've seen quite a few people who switch from engineering because "it was too hard." Those people, I suspect, just didn't want to work.

 

[inigo88]

Also, keep up the hard work. Sure, chasing girls is fun now...but it's alot more fun when you make 6 figures at age 30 because you busted your ass in college. I've seen quite a few people who switch from engineering because "it was too hard." Those people, I suspect, just didn't want to work.

Thank you so much for the advice!