Is "Real Life" Engineering Anything Like What I'm Learning in Class?

I'm a sophomore ME at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The courses I am currently taking are Mechanical Systems, Fluid and Thermal Systems, Elements of Electrical Engineering, and Differential Equations 2. So I've got an "OK" understanding of what crunching the numbers is like. I understand w

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