#engineering rants

Engineering is being tested on material that literally was not taught in class...

So one of my classes this semester started off with a coordinated intro that should have theoretically had us intrigued about the course. Except it got eerie very quickly. The class is shared between three professors, and all of them were commenting how fun it will be. At first we were all thinking “okay, its going to be interesting.” But at some point the word fun became integrated into every sentence. We want this to be a fun experience. You’ll have fun learning about lasers. It’s a fun class. Safe to say we were pretty horrified about what the word “fun” really means. Turns out after 5 years of engineering we finally understand: It’s students asking questions not directly related to material, which means the prof will lose time and literally race to finish the lecture. Have you ever seen a professor go through 20 slides in 10 minutes? It is not a pretty sight.  I guess you can say we are having a lot of fun.

May 27, 2020 It’s been a long day. Got up at 4:15 am and it feels like I have been working non stop since. My printer is also furious with me and decided to act as a shredder. It took me a solid 20 minutes of working with a thin set of pliers to take out each piece just to print out the lecture notes I needed for a class. It isn’t even dark out and I feel like it might as well be 11pm... humans were not made to function on  hours of sleep... and apparently my printer agrees...

I have given up lmao