My Thoughts as an Engineering Student

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Things aren't going quite the way I'd like this semester. The professor just covers the board with equations and doesn't explain anything or sometimes the professor explains the topic but it is really hard to understand. Urgg! The textbook is dry with dust and doesn't have worked-out examples. Geesh! In my university these happen almost all of the time. Besides the workbook that I have to buy, I need to have another textbook so that I will further understand the subject. Well, I will still have lots of these this coming school year. I guess, like everyone else, I complained. Unfortunately, while complaining may make me feel better, it didn't do a thing for my grades. Trust me! I complain a lot! I've been an Engineering Student for four years, going five. I realized that the real problem is not the professor who's making my life miserable. I've always complain and said, "They are our teachers. They are supposed to teach us what to do. They aren't supposed to include something new in the exams. They didn't discussed it, it's unfair!" I have been saying this over and over again everytime I fail an exam. But then it made me realize that this is absolutely wrong! This approach may have worked in high school, but I think it begins to fail in college. In real life, I mean in the industry there are no homeworks, lectures and exams. There are only problems -- usually poorly defined ones -- and solutions that are either acceptable or not. To make it worse, you no longer get partial credit for solutions that don't work, even if you use the correct formula. If you design ten antenna and one doesn't work, trust me -- they won't give you a 90 and congratulate you. As I've said I am on my 5th year as an Engineering Student, I will try not to complain. Never will I blame my teachers again because I fail an exam or I didn't finish my project. I'll figure out what I need to make the topics and projects clearer. I'll ask for professional help, read other references, and definitely work with others.