The amount of textbooks I had to study for my first year of engineering
by xman2007
The amount of textbooks I had to study for my first year of engineering
by xman2007
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The fact that most of them look to be in near perfect condition, is worrying to me…
I kept all of my engineering textbooks, keep them on a shelf in my office so I look smart.
and soon you’ll realize you probably didn’t need to buy half of these cause there’s a pirated copy online for free.
Someone recently broke into a local college bookstore and stole $15k worth of textbooks. Thankfully, the police quickly recovered and returned both books to the school.
Meanwhile I graduated with 2 books (both were Math) for the whole 3.5years studying.
I’m software engineer.
How much are they worth?
Edit: first year! So 3 or 4 to go?
welcome to STEM
Take them to the shooting range. Give them a proper sendoff.
Medicine: hold my beer.
As someone who took Engineering in the late 90s early 00s, this is relatable. That’s also easily >$2000 in textbooks.
They appear to be quite unstudied.
I’ve got an Engineering degree in the UK, haven’t had to buy a single book in my whole studies…
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Damn bro. I’m an analytical chemist and I bought zero books in all my years of schooling.
Rip your bank account
I didnt read that many textbooks in all my years of HS and 4 years of college combined lmao
I thought that was a four loko for scale lol
How many pages, as an overall rough percentage on average, did you read of each book?
You guys are buying textbooks?
Yeah well as a history major I had to study all of history. /j
Lol, just finishing my first year of medical school and have only cracked one book (first aid). Everything else online
You think this is bad? You should see my nursing school textbooks. I actually kept a few and put them in my locker the first few years of work. It did help!
Realistically, how much information from each book do you think you’ve retained? How much of each are you expected to know? Genuinely curious, because I’ve never had to consume anywhere near this ammount of information.
A few of us hated our third-year structures class so much that we built a full-size catapult for an end of year project and destroyed our structures textbooks with it.
The professor was impressed with our creativity.
After 4 years of Uni in the late 90s / early 00s, I’d accumulated a whole full sized filing cabinet of handwritten notes and approx 12ft of textedbooks when stacked on one another.
…all of which moved with me from my parents, to my first flat and then our family home.
After 20+ years of never referencing them once, I eventually binned them. Well, my wife did, to make room for more clothes.
No bad photocopies of the books? Tsk tsk tsk….
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I have held maybe 3 printed textbooks during my entire engineering course. I have bought zero. All 3 from libraries.
Rest everything from PDFs. Mostly from Libgen and similar websites. Also the Professors occasionally would send out the PDFs themselves
That’s it? That’s ALL the books? LOL
Ar least you still got real books!
In the 2nd year of my bachelor they decided that many books were going to be digital only.
Fucking hated studying for those subjects where it was basically an online book/pdf!!
I suck at learning from a computer screen.
As a Moroccan I recognize the Coke Zero with our team colors
For what school lol, in three semesters I’ll have needed to buy less than 5. The rest are optional/open source online sources
I was taking 18 units during undergrad and never had this many books for chemical engineering
I did my first year of eng and I don’t think I opened a single textbook. They were all kinda terrible, and other resources seemed more suitable. Though I certainly wish I had useful textbooks, that would be nice.
This confuses me.
I have a couple of degrees from CMU. Nowhere in my undergrad or grad years did I have to deal with anywhere near that volume of pages in any of my majors, including the “Physics with a minor in Engineering” one.
For example, after three undergrad semesters in classical mechanics you hit first year grad school and in one slim little volume you do it all over again but with more rigor. And ‘slim little volume’ is the operative phrase here. There’s enough material in there for your Prof to spend three hours a week filling blackboards (I’m old) with equations, but it doesn’t take thousands of pages from a textbook to get there.
I don’t understand this picture.