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."

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Here is why it DOES suck

[tron420]

I worked my ass off at UC Davis for a computer engineering degree. Students who were in majors would complain about _a_ weeder class that was hard. Well, for CE the entire major was a bunch of extremely difficult "weeder" classes. I suffered from what the article describes in regards to low grades for high amount of effort. I graduated in 2003 with a 3.2 cum GPA. The reason this sucks is because now I am applying for an MBA where your undergraduate GPA matters. Even though I scored a 710 on my GMAT (93 percentile), my relatively low GPA has resulted in refusal letters from schools where my GMAT score was above the average of the incoming class.