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Anon is an engineer (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on the person, depends on the University.

From what I've seen (very old anecdote here, take with salt) some engineering colleges will do everything within the ethics/honor code to obstruct your path to 2nd year. Then they do it again for 3rd. The result are brutally hard classes that are designed to weed students out more than teaching the subject at hand. Even on its best day, school doesn't mirror the real world, but neither does semester after semester of arbitrary hurdles for a degree. The workplace simply has entirely different, but far more palatable, bullshit on offer. IMO, it's completely valid to hate school but love your job afterwards.