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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The engineer whining on this thread is pretty hilarious. Engineering has long been famous for killer curves. Beyond that, even if they were right about engineering, not all STEM fields are "criterion based."[b] Math and physics in particular reward brilliance and wizardry in seeing beyond the textbook.[/b] Maybe we could all learn something from pure math.[/quote]
As someone who studied Physics and got a PhD in computational physics, no that is not what physics rewards. It rewards understanding the content and applying it to new situations. At the undergraduate level, there's very little "brilliance" to reward, beyond working hard to understand content. There do, however, seem to be a lot of people in math and physics who are awful at the subject, but feel some need to emphasize that it's brilliance that separates those who do well from those who don't.[/quote]

You sound bitter [/quote]

I don't think the physicist sounds bitter at all.  As a matter of fact, I think you sound ignorant.[/quote]

Ex- physicist.[/quote]
No where is it made clear that this person doesn't still work in the field.[/quote]

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