engineering and running

Christian Wagner from Wisconsin... I think he was 29 flat for 10K and All-American

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Thanks, does anyone have any more?

Engineering's not that much work. If people can work full time jobs and be elite (they can), then they can be engineers and run. I did it and it was fine. I'm also not elite so you don't want to hear about me.

But still, 100 miles/week + extraneous practice bullshit is maybe 15-20 hours a week. School work will be maybe 40 hours a week. That leaves plenty of time for sleep and whatever else you need to do.

yep. but none of them were gingers.

Drew Polley. 16th at Boston last year and runs for Brooks Hanson, graduated from Washington State in 2009.

I believe Jake Riley is. Running and doing engineering sucks. Unless you're a total stud (like Jake), which I'm not.

Thanks to all responses.

I realize it will be hard but obviously academics come first although I'd like to have a successful college career as well. As mentioned in this thread and in others time management plays a huge roll. If anyone has any more people it would be great.

if engineering is difficult enough to you that you have to spend an absurd amount of time learning it, that's probably a good indication that you are not cut out for it. not like you arent smart enough, you were just made to do something else. the best engineers i know often spend very little time on non-project related school work because everything comes naturally. so ideally, yes, its pretty easy to do engineering and NCAA sports.

Well, mechanical engineering isn't real engineering. I'm a Civil and it's really difficult to balance running and school. Hell, I studied fluids for 8 hours a day last semester!

LAURA TREMBLAY, Univ. of Colorado

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IN THE CLASSROOM: Tremblay is majoring in chemical and biological

engineering and is also interested in Spanish and women’s studies. She

owns a GPA of 3.75 and is a member of the Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor

Roll.

Typical civil engineer. I hope that was an advanced fluids class that you needed to study 8 hrs/day for, because otherwise...

Civil Engineering is where all the Engineers who couldn't handle the harder majors went to over the years in college.

First two years CivE's learn water flows downhill, next two they learn you cant push a rope.

As a MechE I was routinely tutoring CivE's in classes I had never taken.

if you go to a respectable school, engineering will take up a lot of time. our matlab system dynamics assignments are usually 10-20 hrs a week. thats just one assignment for one class. it just depends on your prof and school. ive had some easy classes and some killer ones.

also, fluids shouldnt be that hard if youre a civil. thats a junior level class. funny that you say mechanical isnt real engineering, since we use matlab state space reps to model your silly fluid problems quite easily. maybe thats why mechanical pays better?

So what's the hardest engineering?

chemical engineering, or electrical engineering

from what i've heard

I would say biomedical

James Nielson, Stanford, WXC Team Canada

Sanya Richards, got a very respectable GPA too.

Not engineering, Edwin Moses has a BS in Physics.