sibersmith wrote:

Hey guys it's me again.

How big of a factor is GPA in getting a good aerospace job at a cool
company? The line "...Do good in school" is always given in advice
when I was growing up. To tell the truth I was holding a decent
3.3gpa untill I hit my math sequence at college. Now I have no more
'breeze' classes (history etc) to prop up my gpa and it's killing me.
I'm problobly around a 2.3 now.

This really bums me out. I went into Aerospace cause I wanted the job
of my dreams designing aircraft. Nobodys gona hire a medocree looser
that doesn't excell in math.

So how Important is a good GPA when looking for a job?


I don't know about the US practice when it comes to GPAs, but learning
to do math well isn't any different in the US than anywhere else.
Being good at math is not just a question of having a `knack' for it or
not. There is a lot you can do about your ability to comprehend and do
math by working really hard. Learning to do math at a high level simply
takes a lot of hard work (except for super geniuses, and there aren't
too many of those). Talk to people about the math problems you have
difficulty with. Spend a lot of time in the library. If your lecture
notes aren't clear enough, try to learn more about the problem by
looking at other textbooks. Prepare well _before_ you go to a lecture or
class, and of course practice, practice practice. There is no such thing
as doing too many exercises.

Regards,
Ralph Savelsberg