Re:Math, Science Popular Until Students Realize They’re Hard
by raverbashing on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @04:42AM
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Beyond all the other factors, this is the problem:
"My first job was to design and construct a prototype design for an instrumentation amplifier but we'd never even been taught how to lay shit out on a PCB."
University is mostly a pissing context between "PhD" that couldn't survive in the real world. And the tests are to assert their dominance (mostly)
I have an EE degree. The hobbyist magazine has taught me more about how to build a simple radio than said degree.
Not to mention mathematical models for some things are, let's say, weird.
I left knowing absolutely fuck all other than how to pass a test through cramming yet got a 1st. I didn't deserve it.
I spent 5 years the moment I hit industry relearning everything and fudging what I could with my then HP48 calculator which had a solver and equation library. It basically saved my arse.
My first job was to design and construct a prototype design for an instrumentation amplifier but we'd never even been taught how to lay shit out on a PCB.
Now I know what I'm doing but have bailed out into software as there is more demand, but I get the feeling my story is quite common.