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Does It Suck To Be An Engineering Student?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the what-doesn't-suck dept.

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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  1. alfred who? by circletimessquare · · Score: 0, Troll

    (snicker)

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  2. Re:NO IT DOES NOT by Naughty+Bob · · Score: 0, Troll

    You were being a dick. You deserved to be punched....
    Hmm. It's like you're trying, desperately, to express yourself cogently, but just don't have the wherewithal. How deliciously apposite.

    All my love, Naughty Bob X.
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  3. No, actually, you are wrong by keineobachtubersie · · Score: 0, Troll

    "The clerks handling academic scholarships do." No, they don't. Their opinion is irrelevant, you either meet the requirements or you don't. Unless you have some evidence that suggests that these "clerks" are somehow using their subjective judgment in an objective process. So, no actually, the clerks do not, and you are wrong.