Then you are obviously in the wrong field. From my understanding engineering is largely "apply formula x, y and z to this problem," or "determine which ad hoc method you acquired in a previous class to use here." The fields that make you sit down and think about things are theoretical fields - theoretical physics, mathematics, etc., where it does not take some rote memorization and skill in application but actual cleverness and ingenuity to sniff out a solution based on sound reasoning, not best guess.
After all, most of the engineering courses I've taken (particularly electrical) is just a series of methods of how to "fake it" and doesn't really give a real answer, partly because there is no way to get a real right answer mathematically or physically . Personally, I'd like to be in the group of people that's looking for the right answer, not a good guess (uncertainty problems aside).
I'll stick to my theoretical studies, the rest of you either stop complaining about how mechanic engineering is or pick a new field that requires some more intensive thinking.
As far as GPA inflation goes, personally I think it's justified. Courses in fields like Physics absolutely have to be curved, because at the rate you learn material around 60% of the time you are not ready to use it until the end of the course (which makes sense, because it seems everyone performs better on their finals than on midterms here.) Courses like that are made to train you to think a certain way, not throw massive amounts of information at you and get you to memorize formulae and practice their applications.
I know most threads have been about how the postulated laws are broken, but there's a bigger question to be asked in this - do people, who go to the movies, want the laws of physics to be obeyed?
I think the film industry has actually done it right - we go to the movies to, quite literally, be fooled. There's a reason sci-fi films end up being blockbusters.
People are so fed up with the mundane, they want to see something extraordinary, even if it is something infinitesimally trivial as a simple bullet spark. It draws a person into the film with the appeal of the extraordinary, and gives them what they paid for - an escape from reality, even if they don't realize it.
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Then you are obviously in the wrong field. From my understanding engineering is largely "apply formula x, y and z to this problem," or "determine which ad hoc method you acquired in a previous class to use here." The fields that make you sit down and think about things are theoretical fields - theoretical physics, mathematics, etc., where it does not take some rote memorization and skill in application but actual cleverness and ingenuity to sniff out a solution based on sound reasoning, not best guess. After all, most of the engineering courses I've taken (particularly electrical) is just a series of methods of how to "fake it" and doesn't really give a real answer, partly because there is no way to get a real right answer mathematically or physically . Personally, I'd like to be in the group of people that's looking for the right answer, not a good guess (uncertainty problems aside). I'll stick to my theoretical studies, the rest of you either stop complaining about how mechanic engineering is or pick a new field that requires some more intensive thinking. As far as GPA inflation goes, personally I think it's justified. Courses in fields like Physics absolutely have to be curved, because at the rate you learn material around 60% of the time you are not ready to use it until the end of the course (which makes sense, because it seems everyone performs better on their finals than on midterms here.) Courses like that are made to train you to think a certain way, not throw massive amounts of information at you and get you to memorize formulae and practice their applications.
Could the study of this kind of a material help int he detection/quantized study of dark matter?
I know most threads have been about how the postulated laws are broken, but there's a bigger question to be asked in this - do people, who go to the movies, want the laws of physics to be obeyed? I think the film industry has actually done it right - we go to the movies to, quite literally, be fooled. There's a reason sci-fi films end up being blockbusters. People are so fed up with the mundane, they want to see something extraordinary, even if it is something infinitesimally trivial as a simple bullet spark. It draws a person into the film with the appeal of the extraordinary, and gives them what they paid for - an escape from reality, even if they don't realize it.
if they can't flip the earth on its back?