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Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?
Pickens writes "Aaron Rower has an interesting post on Wired with the "Top 5 Reasons it Sucks to be an Engineering Student" that includes awful textbooks, professors who are rarely encouraging, the dearth of quality counseling, and every assignment feels the same. Our favorite is that other disciplines have inflated grades. "Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films," writes Rower. "Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores." For many students, earning a degree in engineering is less than enjoyable and far from what they expected. If you want to complain about your education, this is your chance."
"Having worked in a few different fields, I can assure you that, unless you are applying to work in a discipline relevant to your degree"
This is liberal arts major type thinking. Engineers don't go to school to deliver pizza after they graduate.
There was no flamebait there, I can't believe two pizza guys got mod points on the same day. Holy crap, you morons, not only was it not flamebait, it was written in support of engineering majors. As in "engineering majors become engineers, they don't worry too much about getting jobs outside their field".
Stop getting pissed at me because you're liberal arts majors, you picked it. Maybe if you'd chosen a better major your reading comprehension wouldn't suck ass.
Instead of wasting your mod points modding me down for telling the truth about you?
Oh, no, oh dear. You've got me. You applied your massively superior intellect to logging onto Fortune or Forbes.com and pulling up a list of the CEOs of the Fortune/Forbes 100/500/whatever and producing a list of names in less than two minutes, if you didn't just pull it from memory because you had nothing better to do than put me in my plce. Pish, you fool of a troll. I've encountered better trouncing from a dead kitten. In the first place, of course I used hyperbole and exaggeration in my original post. Since the parent of MY post decided to deride all LA majors, I felt it only obvious to return the favor. As a LA major I cheerfully reserve the right to exaggerate, distort, and otherwise spin facts as I so choose. It's a hallmark of good politicians, and your post is a stunning example of why you'd get booted out of any elected or C-level office in a heartbeat (because it's intolerant, insensitive, and boorish, and you choose being right over being human - all qualities that'll get you shot in a good boardroom). If I really felt it'd be a good expenditure of my time, I'd spend about a day looking up the thousands of successful CEOs and executives who have made fortunes without resorting to an MBA or engineering degree. And I'd point out to you the hundreds of world leaders who majored in POLI SCI. But of course, my intellect is no match for yours. And I have to work for a living, unlike yourself who apparently has the IQ of a God and a frontal cortex the size of a jet engine, so that means I can't take the time to prove you wrong and risk damaging your immense ego. So please... just overlook my pitiful response.
Here's to hot beer, cold women, and Glaswegian kisses for all.