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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Claims he hires people in spite of business degrees, doesn't target them. Engineers learn real skills and content, business is learned by doing it.

Just thought I'd share for those weighing college plans.[/quote]

The problem is, the majority of kids who could hack a business degree couldn't hack an engineering degree.  He's hiring much smarter kids by targeting engineering grads.[/quote]

I hate this stereotype that many kids can't "hack" an engineering degree.  This notion is patently wrong.  Yes, not everyone can, but who is concerned that their kid can't "hack" a degree in journalism, or history?  It might take work, but it's useful.  And engineering programs are no longer so focused on "weeding out" but on getting kids to all learn the material.  It can be done, but adults tell people they can't do engineering is not going to help.

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+1. The whole having or not having a "math brain" is the most cringe-inducing thing ever.[/quote]

Well people do have natural inclinations toward certain subject areas which can help or hinder your success in them. For instance, I genuinely find history interesting. I enjoyed doing the assigned reading for my classes which made it much easier to do well. In contrast, completing a problem set in my math or physics classes was always a slog for me because I found it boring. I still did well but it felt more like "work" rather than something I'd ever choose to do recreationally. As another example, I took a computer science class with a friend. My friend honestly found the work intriguing. She saw it like a puzzle she was determined to solve just to know she could and to understand how it worked. If I wasn't being graded, I wouldn't have wanted to tinker around with the program. I had no inherent interest in figuring out how it worked.

In addition to the above issue, you do realize that math education is severely lacking in many areas of the United States right? If you don't have a good strong background in the fundamentals, you can forget ever going above precalc or calc 1. So there lies the problem for most students who can't "hack" engineering or physics majors.[/quote]

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