One of the three times I went back to Colorado last year was to hang out with the old clan from college, specifically roommates and associated…
During all my travels last year, I did get to do many fun things, such as attending the awesome wedding of Lance and Nicole! I’ve known Lance…
More or less shamelessly taken from Wired. Check out the Wired article to read all the gory details about why it sucks:
5. Awful Textbooks
4. Professors are Rarely Encouraging
3. Dearth of Quality Counseling
2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
1. Every Assignment Feels the Same
[...] friend of mine (Andrew Ferguson) posted some reasons he thought it sucked to be an engineering [...]
I’m not quite sure I agree, Andrew:
http://dan.lecocq.us/wordpress/2008/05/16/top-reasons-its-awesome-to-be-in-engineering/
Although, I do sympathize to a certain extent.
@Dan Lecocq:
So perhaps “sucks” isn’t the best word choice. Perhaps, “hard” is better?
Hello Andrew! I too am an engineering student and I agree with all of those ideas. I am angry that every semester I need to purchase new textbooks, when we all know that they will be obsolete at the end of the term.
This is my first time visiting your blog and reading some comments, and I noticed you’ve used the comment @to reply to someone. Not to toot my own horn, but I wrote a WordPress plugin that beautifies the reference with a link to the previous comment. Check it out!
http://www.wesg.ca/2008/04/wordpress-plugin-comment-connection/
@Wes G:
Well, I don’t think they’re entirely obsolete. I usually end up keeping my upper division textbooks with the anticipation that I’ll be able to use them as resources later on.
Also, thanks for the plugin. I’m trying it out now and am liking it so far!