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Sunday, May 11, 2008

Engineering Myth

There is a myth out there on todays campus, actually i dont know if you really should call it a myth, it is more like a stereotype. That is that engineering students don't know how to have fun, all they know how tom do is study. While this may be true of some people it isn't of all the engineers i know. Of course engineers take a lot of courses more than most of the other majors, that means we have to study for more tests so we can't go out every night like business majors or communication majors who i know that go out four or fives times a week. Engineers still, when we have the time off, when we don't have a test the next day we still know how to have fun, whatever type of fun you want to have. Actually some of the bigger partiers including four or five that live down the hall from me have gone out any given night of the week even if they had an eight o'clock english class the next morning and they would still be hung over if not drunk when they got to class. The myth that engineers can't have fun holds true for some people but i am sure that the same rules apply to a portion of all majors. But to say that an entire group doesn't know how to have fun is just idiotic. Because i know that enginners know how to have a lot of fun and can always find a good time.

1 comment:

future_tristar said...

My Dad is actually a nuclear engineer...and I know the stereotype quite well - I've witnessed it all of my life. Engineers do know and understand how to have fun, but as my Dad claims: We engineers just analyze everything with a logical sense...of sensibility, unlike the rest of the [psychology] majors out there.

I'm a psychology major, and the two of us argue about whose analytical skills are better.

How about the myth that engineers are super smart, but aren't always the quickest when it comes to common sense?