Where the rubber meets the road

Well over the last few semesters of my education working toward a BS in Electrical Engineering, progress has been rather frustrating. The fact that I'm working full time and doing school part time is not helping much, but as life goes, that is the path I have embarked on. A friend K. had suggested that there may be a time limit on the number of years to complete a degree. So here are a few questions and corespondents with R. Head advisor for undergrad studies for the EE program.

[Mighty]
Is there a time limit in which to complete a degree? And for that matter, do classes start to become obsolete, or no longer count toward your degree after X number of years have passed?

R.
There is really not a time limit, but if the program changes, then a student could be behind by having to change to a newer curriculum when they come back. Are you thinking of stopping out for awhile?? Let me know how you are doing. Thanks much, R.

[Mighty]
Not doing well academically. Unfortunately, this semester is over for me and I'll be in the process of evaluating my goals once I get over my personal disappointment of having an unproductive year academically. Reason for the question is that I have had a couple of friends who graduated from other universities that had specified time limits on how much time you could take to complete a degree once that is your declared major. One person also had to take a few classes over at the end before he could graduate because they had passed the universities time limit for a class to be considered in good standing.

As it stands, I'm probably looking at another seven years to completion at my current pace. That is, if I can regain the competence to complete two classes each in the Fall and Spring (making four classes a year).

"Are you thinking of stopping out for awhile??" Undecided. I admit that I'm having three difficulties at the moment. These being issues with math (which quite frankly, has been a problem for a long time), and problems in comprehending and remembering the material. For the last two (more now that I think about it) semesters, I've also had major problems staying awake in class and also during study times. VERY frustrating. Trust me, caffeine has not helped much. Wakes me up a "little," but then I cannot seem to focus (mind races).

As of now, seeing how math has been a major problem for me, I'm considering taking only one class each in the fall and spring of next year. These being my last two general arts and sciences classes. Then, on the side between now and the Fall of 2008, plow through the math and physics books to try to improve my comfort level with these subjects. Perhaps that will ease my difficulties with the upper level classes for which I foresee math being a much bigger player than in the first two years of the EE program.

Now, what is your honest opinion of what I've stated above? Do you believe that this is it is feasible to maintain my current course of action? How successful have others fared that have been where I'm going?
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