Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:58
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering
What do you prefer? Gender studies? Art history?
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:48
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!
Engineering grads are, by and large, not working at Starbucks.
+1. I don't know one who isn't making at least 6 figures.
Yep! I think some are just hating because science and math isn't in their wheelhouse and that's OK.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:46
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:A lot of them don't really know what they want to do, and many drop out of engineering (and pre med) at many schools because it's harder (or less interesting) than they think.
My DH was an engineering major who ended up a math / CS major. Another relative was an engineering major who ended up as a web designer. Yet another ended up majoring in Business.
And a lot of them go on to become brilliant engineers doing great things in the world and make a great living. Of course, not as well as the biology, philosopy or english majors. lol
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:45
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!
Engineering grads are, by and large, not working at Starbucks.
+1. I don't know one who isn't making at least 6 figures.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:43
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:I've got a dirty secret, med schools like humanities majors and admit them at higher rate than stembots!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who the heck wants to go to med school. Debt, being overworked and average money
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:41
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Engineering jobs are tough to find right now unless you want to move to somewhere like Detroit and work with hundreds of other cubical drones.
lol fake news
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:36
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Why not go to school for something useful like engineering? Liberal arts is basically worthless
Because engineers are chattel, and always will be.
Actually the best read and most thoughtful kids I know are all studying or going into engineering. Things have changed over the past ten years or so. Middle and high schools seem to be actively making subjects like English unpleasant to study. I find that it really is the smart kids that are gravitating toward engineering these days - less so CS right now. If you want brains, engineering and pre-med seem to be where it's at right now. And a lot of those kids read for pleasure and are pretty curious about the world.
Doesn't mean they'll have a better work life.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:02
Subject: So many engineering students
A lot of them don't really know what they want to do, and many drop out of engineering (and pre med) at many schools because it's harder (or less interesting) than they think.
My DH was an engineering major who ended up a math / CS major. Another relative was an engineering major who ended up as a web designer. Yet another ended up majoring in Business.
My DH was an engineering major who ended up a math / CS major. Another relative was an engineering major who ended up as a web designer. Yet another ended up majoring in Business.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:01
Subject: So many engineering students
Trade schools and apprenticeships will become more popular as people realize a college degree doesn’t guarantee a high income. College will become what it used to be - preparation for law school, med school, teaching profession, and a way for the upper classes to meet each other and pair off.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 15:01
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!
Don’t be dumb. Tech is where all the jobs are heading. Get on board or be left behind.
Actually, cs and engineering are expected to be heavily impacted by ai. They would not be at the top of my list of where “jobs are heading.” In fact, “where are the jobs heading” isn’t even the right question rn. It’s more: which fields will shrink most due to ai. Things that have to be done in person (dentistry say) seem like a much safer bet than programming etc
Writing, law .. also impacted by AI.
Yeah, communications, law, finance all seem to be much more impacted by AI than engineering.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:55
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:I've got a dirty secret, med schools like humanities majors and admit them at higher rate than stembots!!!!!!!!!!!!
ok? Most college students aren't premed.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:54
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!
Don’t be dumb. Tech is where all the jobs are heading. Get on board or be left behind.
Actually, cs and engineering are expected to be heavily impacted by ai. They would not be at the top of my list of where “jobs are heading.” In fact, “where are the jobs heading” isn’t even the right question rn. It’s more: which fields will shrink most due to ai. Things that have to be done in person (dentistry say) seem like a much safer bet than programming etc
Writing, law .. also impacted by AI.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:54
Subject: Re:So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Liberal arts is in theory a fantastic intellectual foundation for life and a career, but in practice its been wrecked by wokeness. Everyone recognizes this and is staying away.
If we can reform the liberal arts, it will flourish again.
It did not die out due to wokeness. Liberal arts degrees have been declining for many years in part due to the growth in the tech sector, and more students majoring in business.
And why are people so interested in majoring in "business" which typically not a rigorous degree where you learn boring things that were just picked up on the job by intelligent, well-rounded people years ago without the need for any courses? Perhaps its all the stories they hear about people signing for literature courses and having to listen to political drivel rather than actually learn to appreciate literature.
People study business because that’s where the money is. Duh.
Our culture is deeply anti-intellectual. Our culture worships money above all. Treating Universities as de facto trade schools (STEM! Business!) does not make for a truly educated populace.
You can't eat education. You need money.
People on here complain about how they can't make it on $200K because of student loans. Biden used taxpayer money to wipe out billions in student loans.
My tax dollars had to wipe out your loan because you thought "education is more important than a vocational degree".
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:54
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anyone else notice this trend? It seems that almost every student at DC's school is going into engineering
Don't worry. They won't all make it through. You lose 50% the first year.
Anonymous
05/02/2025 14:51
Subject: So many engineering students
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:STEM is the new liberal arts. CS and engineering grads working at starbucks! Oh the irony!
Don’t be dumb. Tech is where all the jobs are heading. Get on board or be left behind.
Actually, cs and engineering are expected to be heavily impacted by ai. They would not be at the top of my list of where “jobs are heading.” In fact, “where are the jobs heading” isn’t even the right question rn. It’s more: which fields will shrink most due to ai. Things that have to be done in person (dentistry say) seem like a much safer bet than programming etc