People left Engineering when I was studying it because they got into it for the wrong reason. They took it because they thought it was good money and/or becaus

People left Engineering when I was studying it because they got into it for the wrong reason. They took it because they thought it was good money and/or because they were told that they were well-suited for it. Unfortunately, the workload is such that, unless you really, really wanted to do it, it wasn't worth the hassle. (At the time, I worked in the lab with people taking Computer Science who had about 24 hours per week of lectures, tutorials and labs (before homework), while we had between 37-40) I remember going to an upper-level math student with a problem when I was in second year and they guy had no idea what my coursework was or how to do it. They would blast you with about 2.5 years of insane math and other tools, and the last 1.5 years consisted of explaining to you how stringing those tools together allowed you to do just about anything.