Engineering has mostly managed to hold out, but the feelings crew have been making inroads. Many programs now mark students on the curve, and not on actual marks. All that does is set them up for failure on the licensing exams after college.
I tell students all the time, the physical world doesn’t care about feelings. You can either do so…
Engineering has mostly managed to hold out, but the feelings crew have been making inroads. Many programs now mark students on the curve, and not on actual marks. All that does is set them up for failure on the licensing exams after college.
I tell students all the time, the physical world doesn’t care about feelings. You can either do something or you can’t. You’re either better than another at it or not. If you want special treatment do better.
Yes. When I received my undergraduate training in first mechanical engineering and then honors physics in Canada and then moved on to graduate school in physics at MIT in the 70s, I found it beyond grueling and challenging. However, as horrible and brutally competitive as that introduction was, it was NOTHING compared to the incredibly harsh realities I would later face as a STEM professional in mathematical physics and then applied mathematics.
The real world is so unfair and cruel that it is hard to imagine. I faced constant insults and deprecation. I had many millions of grant and contract money stolen. I endured physical assaults. I had my signature forged on legal contracts, was lied to repeatedly, was in an 8.5 year lawsuit, and so on. The environment is so rough in actuality that it is beyond belief. Almost nothing could have prepared me for it.
And I am not alone by any means. Many of my colleagues faced the same, or worse. When I read historical accounts of others in my field, I notice that these conditions are not unique or recent. It has always been this way, it would seem. Some are very lucky and escape it. But if you have any talent whatsoever, you have a target painted on your back. Over and over, I am shocked and dismayed to realize what the situation is like, and probably has always been like.
Layering on this woke ideology has just given bullies more tools to abuse the workforce. It does not remotely make things more "fair". It is just irrational nonsense.
All is not lost, however. My daughter, a fairly recent engineering graduate, doesn’t buy into any of the woke stuff, and calls out those leveraging it. Let’s hope more follow that example.
Engineering has mostly managed to hold out, but the feelings crew have been making inroads. Many programs now mark students on the curve, and not on actual marks. All that does is set them up for failure on the licensing exams after college.
I tell students all the time, the physical world doesn’t care about feelings. You can either do something or you can’t. You’re either better than another at it or not. If you want special treatment do better.
Yes. When I received my undergraduate training in first mechanical engineering and then honors physics in Canada and then moved on to graduate school in physics at MIT in the 70s, I found it beyond grueling and challenging. However, as horrible and brutally competitive as that introduction was, it was NOTHING compared to the incredibly harsh realities I would later face as a STEM professional in mathematical physics and then applied mathematics.
The real world is so unfair and cruel that it is hard to imagine. I faced constant insults and deprecation. I had many millions of grant and contract money stolen. I endured physical assaults. I had my signature forged on legal contracts, was lied to repeatedly, was in an 8.5 year lawsuit, and so on. The environment is so rough in actuality that it is beyond belief. Almost nothing could have prepared me for it.
And I am not alone by any means. Many of my colleagues faced the same, or worse. When I read historical accounts of others in my field, I notice that these conditions are not unique or recent. It has always been this way, it would seem. Some are very lucky and escape it. But if you have any talent whatsoever, you have a target painted on your back. Over and over, I am shocked and dismayed to realize what the situation is like, and probably has always been like.
Layering on this woke ideology has just given bullies more tools to abuse the workforce. It does not remotely make things more "fair". It is just irrational nonsense.
Feel for you
All is not lost, however. My daughter, a fairly recent engineering graduate, doesn’t buy into any of the woke stuff, and calls out those leveraging it. Let’s hope more follow that example.