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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."
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what your country did to you
I mean the "Sex Kills! Go To Tech and Live Forever!" bumper stickers weren't created just because they were catchy.
the good ground has been paved over by suicidal maniacs
It's been a few years since college, but what I loathed was having to almost learn Mandarin, or Hindi to understand my math teachers.
-ted
#6: It doesn't get you laid.
You're in college to learn. Get over it.
5 years ago called. Apparently you left your jacket at their house.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
Now that all depends on how we define one's ability to form a general opinion. For more information read my paper for Philosophy 416, "Our ability to form opinions, real or not." It's clearly an excellent paper, I got an A++++. I'm right because I'm smarter than you are, I have a 4.83 GPA.
New Topic:
Top 5 reasons it sucks to hire the new crop of engineering students:
5.) They expect the Statement of work you're asking for completion to be colorful, fun, and well written.
4.) They can relate how their professor who cave them a B- is soooo much better at solving problems than you.
3.) They are convinced working as a TA is real work.
2.) Untraining the bad habits. I block instant messaging for a reason.
1.) They want me to vote for Obama and incessantly drone on about how horrible life is in the US.
How's that hangover?
No girls... Please do not mod this funny, because it's not :(
Wow, that is some violent agreement there. I think I still have the bruises.
I read the internet for the articles.
The jerk store called, they're running out of YOU!
-If
Run a pencil-and-paper RPG campaign with your far-off friends: Gametable!
The number of times I walk into a restaurant/office/wherever and see a Rothko hanging upside down.
"Be light, stinging, insolent and melancholy"
My first joke when I walked into a new class was, "You're in luck. I speak English." Lots of people laughed but not because what I said was funny.
Cheers,
Dave
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither safety nor liberty.
Ben
You can hang a Rothko upside down?
I prefer Flambe as apposed flamebait.
Assuming you're an engineer, you've probably proven one of the article's points -- despite a lack of any art education you managed to produce a quite acceptable piece of extemporaneous performance art. At a famous NY museum, no less. Most artists go their entire career without a NY museum show -- maybe you picked the wrong career :-)
Hint: Your engineering professor who wrote the book slept through is English Lit. class.
That's interesting, a girl I knew got through a second year english lit course by sleeping with her lecturer.
I'm not sure what your point is. I loved Primer.
Cow Cube
A kid smearing finger-paint has no boundaries (literally--ask any mother about all the places the paint gets to), works quickly, and does it with ease and joy, exploring very basic aspects of vision. I propose we populate modern art galleries with children's finger paintings instead of having to pay ridiculous sums to all these grown-ups doing finger painting.
...every Java-mangling halfwit could also make Titanic.
They probably couldn't make great art, but I think they could certainly make Titanic.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others. -Groucho Marx
What's to explain? Just go Yeah, bring out the hot chicks 'cause I am a hot stud.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.
What REALLY sucks is when you're complaining about all the assholes and you're NOT a proctologist!
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
For a good number of girls in university, they'd probably maximise their income by forgetting about education and be prostitutes and pornographic actors (what was that Eliot Spitzer prostitute making, $5000/hour?
Upside: $5,000/hr.
Downside: Have to screw Eliot Spitzer
Challenge: Have to convince Eliot Spitzer that you enjoyed it.
paintball