I think it really depends on the person. I personally would struggle with it because it takes a while to get stuff into my brain. I was a student athlete at Georgia Tech and majored in management rather than engineering for that reason. However, my son is just starting out as a freshman at a Top 20 D1 program studying engineering. Studying and time management comes much easier to him than it did to me. He obviously has a long way to go, but he is already taking labs and so far he seems to be doing quite well. There was a kid from the team who graduated last year in mechanical engineering with high honors, and there are 2 other upperclassmen that are majoring in engineering that are key starters.