The Degree is a certificate that states you passed a baseline knowledge bar in Engineering. That’s it.
It’s really just Step 0 in your path towards a profession in Engineering.
Are there better ways to learn the fundamentals? Yes.
Any kid with willpower will find a way to learn all this stuff, and seek teachers/mentors, etc.
All the best students I was surrounded by were already freakin smart before they walked into class. They already knew the material, had a grasps of the concepts and were just there to get the ‘paper’ so they can move on.
Yep, rankles me to no end you need the paper that in some ways means over-trained, in others irrelevantly-trained, in others programmed/brainwashed (just being on a campus for 4 years these days has much implicit this as well) etc.
The Degree is a certificate that states you passed a baseline knowledge bar in Engineering. That’s it.
It’s really just Step 0 in your path towards a profession in Engineering.
Are there better ways to learn the fundamentals? Yes.
Any kid with willpower will find a way to learn all this stuff, and seek teachers/mentors, etc.
All the best students I was surrounded by were already freakin smart before they walked into class. They already knew the material, had a grasps of the concepts and were just there to get the ‘paper’ so they can move on.
Yep, rankles me to no end you need the paper that in some ways means over-trained, in others irrelevantly-trained, in others programmed/brainwashed (just being on a campus for 4 years these days has much implicit this as well) etc.