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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's worth noting that college degrees are often not hard to get, assuming you have ample finances. Colleges are businesses, and they care more about cashflow than education.

I have a bachelor of science in electrical engineering. Of my graduating class, probably only about a quarter of us actually understood anything. And now working in the industry, it seems like that's a pretty reasonable average for other institutions in my field (there are exceptions, a few colleges have higher standards).

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    I mean, to be fair, electrical engineering is one of the most notoriously difficult to grasp disciplines.

    People don't generally have a great intuitive sense for how pulsed electromagnet waves propagate through 3d space and time.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    There are some aspects of the discipline that are hard to grasp--in my experience, it was differential equations and advanced control systems. But those are a pretty small part of the curriculum. The number of people who graduated without demonstrating even basic understanding of rudimentary concepts is alarming, but it explains a large amount of the shitty engineering that exists in the world.

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