Quit whining kid. Just because you were an all-american high school student does not make you an all-star engineer. High school is a joke.
Engineering takes time, discipline, and ingenuity. If you cannot hack it you should not be in the classroom. Blaming your downfalls on the professors and/or teaching assistants is bypassing the issue. I am glad he left.
When I was in engineering I used to complain about how hard the introductory classes were and how much homework I had. I would look at my liberal art friends see them partying and wish I could have it as easy as they did. But it got me no where. The older I got the more I began to realize how important those intro classes were. I would bark at the fact that I would never use this much calculus in my life and often times find myself using it everyday. Sometimes I would have only learned one thing in a engineering class but that has proved to be invaluable, day in, day out.
So be it if there is a drop in engineering students. When I was at school, I would see the kids who dropped out of my engineering classes occasionally around campus, not that all of them were stupid, but just did not have the right mindset to be an engineer. Whether it's an electrical engineer designing the flight controls for a new aircraft, or a mechanical engineer designing some safety feature of my new car I want them to have that mindset and heart to consider all design possibilities.
In closing, I say if we have to make engineering flashier to attract more people then we are wasting our time. An engineer should be attracted to solving the problem in the face of all odds. The only sense of accomplishment he or she needs is getting the job done and doing it right. Maybe that is a flash of arrogance, but then again do I care? There is no room for whiners, only problem solvers. A whiner is the worst problem of all.
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Quit whining kid. Just because you were an all-american high school student does not make you an all-star engineer. High school is a joke. Engineering takes time, discipline, and ingenuity. If you cannot hack it you should not be in the classroom. Blaming your downfalls on the professors and/or teaching assistants is bypassing the issue. I am glad he left. When I was in engineering I used to complain about how hard the introductory classes were and how much homework I had. I would look at my liberal art friends see them partying and wish I could have it as easy as they did. But it got me no where. The older I got the more I began to realize how important those intro classes were. I would bark at the fact that I would never use this much calculus in my life and often times find myself using it everyday. Sometimes I would have only learned one thing in a engineering class but that has proved to be invaluable, day in, day out. So be it if there is a drop in engineering students. When I was at school, I would see the kids who dropped out of my engineering classes occasionally around campus, not that all of them were stupid, but just did not have the right mindset to be an engineer. Whether it's an electrical engineer designing the flight controls for a new aircraft, or a mechanical engineer designing some safety feature of my new car I want them to have that mindset and heart to consider all design possibilities. In closing, I say if we have to make engineering flashier to attract more people then we are wasting our time. An engineer should be attracted to solving the problem in the face of all odds. The only sense of accomplishment he or she needs is getting the job done and doing it right. Maybe that is a flash of arrogance, but then again do I care? There is no room for whiners, only problem solvers. A whiner is the worst problem of all.