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."

Comments

hate to break it to ya

[techpawn]

"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."

That's true in school and real life kid. I'd like to tell you life is fair... But then I'd be lying and in a management position.

I thought it was due to the lack of women?

[ksheff]

I mean the "Sex Kills! Go To Tech and Live Forever!" bumper stickers weren't created just because they were catchy.

Language barrier

[zerofoo]

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

Re:The worst of all... I never learned to READ!

[Fulcrum of Evil]

5 years ago called. Apparently you left your jacket at their house.

Re:hmm

[realisticradical]

I think the only majors with a higher general opinion of themselves are philosophy majors.

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.

How about hiring them?

[glueball]

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.

Re:You are Freaken Arrogant!

[Anonymous Coward]

How's that hangover?

Re:Let me fix that for you

[Rebel_lord]

Maybe it doesn't get you laid. My mojo had a better uptime than my workstation... Either you use Viagra or Windows ME. I don't think I want to know ...

Re:Bologna.

[Naughty Bob]

The number of times I walk into a restaurant/office/wherever and see a Rothko hanging upside down.

And?

[HappyEngineer]

I'm not sure what your point is. I loved Primer.

Re:You are Freaken Arrogant!

[el americano]

...every Java-mangling halfwit could also make Titanic.

They probably couldn't make great art, but I think they could certainly make Titanic.