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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CMU is not unnecessarily hard. It seems hard because many universities artificially reduce courses rigor to accommodate the increased unreadiness of nowadays high school graduates. There are big portion of CMU students graduate with high honor. More importantly, CMU students are trained to get jobs done. The practicality and reliability is highly valued in work place, but disdained by many individuals as outdated qualities. [/quote]
Examples? Most top colleges are still…well, really freaking hard. The difficulty of CMU just sounds like the difficulty of stem degrees. The honest question becomes why does it seem CMU’s education comes at a detriment to the college experience, while peers at other institutions can have both rigorous stem education and an amazing college experience.

Frankly everyone at top colleges “studies a lot” [/quote]

Peers at other institutions with rigorous stem education don’t have “amazing” college experiences. If a program is known rigorous, the complains are similar. Though such programs can be small at many universities and thus overshadowed by the overall school experiences. [/quote]
DCs are all stem majors
1) Princeton for Math 
2) Swarthmore for Physics
3) MIT for ChemE
None hate their times. All are in clubs, go out with friends, and will absolutely geek out if you ask them anything about their studies. So no…the rigorous majors at other colleges aren’t making people complain incessantly or hate their experiences- maybe CMU is just a miserable place.[/quote]

I have heard my fair share of anecdotes about students being miserable at Princeton, MIT, or Cal/Columbia/Cornell/Penn Engineering. You believe what you believe. [/quote]

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