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[Anonymous No.12134385]

I learned nothing

[Anonymous No.12134400]

>>12134385
Awesome.

[Anonymous No.12134895]

>>12134385
Better than learning wrong.
>take THAT higher education!

[Anonymous No.12134897]

>>12134385
iktfb.

[Anonymous No.12134945]

>>12134897
I know that feeling baby

[Anonymous No.12135331]

>>12134385
Bravo Nolan

[Anonymous No.12135335]

congrats!

[Anonymous No.12135365]

>>12134385
Try amphetamines, you need dopamine induced neuroplasticity to learn.

[Anonymous No.12135515]

>>12134945
Yeah baby

[Anonymous No.12135544]

>he fell for the "college is for learning" meme
it's a $100,000 piece of paper because the accreditation gods say so

[Anonymous No.12135996]

>>12134385
HONK HONK

[Anonymous No.12136004]

>>12134385
imagine being so retarded you got a degree but learned nothing. i learned shit tons.

[Anonymous No.12137817]

>>12134385
>tfw got a 3.9 GPA but don't actually know how to *do* anything
I'm embarrassed talking to my family members who are in the trades because they can actually do shit. They ask me what I do, and I just mumble that I'm an electrical engineer. I don't know how to do anything useful though.

[Anonymous No.12137830]

>>12134385
We all learn nothing at the end.

[Anonymous No.12137833]

>>12137817
I can solve some calculus equations i guess haha

[Anonymous No.12137931]

I learned, but iv'e forgotten almost everything. Every single graduate will forget almost everything they learned unless they do their field as a career.

[Anonymous No.12137938]

The statics and dynamics they convinced me were useful enough to be mandatory in first year I retained nothing from 5 years later. I hope that pointless stress doesn't kill me in 30 years

[Anonymous No.12138012]

>>12137817
wait, you're an electrical engineer?
you can like solve...
voltage inefficiencies in circuitry or find the reason why the electric bill is so high (other than the providers being mafiosos) or explain how many potato batteries are able to power a phone, or be a more helpful tv repairman, or be able to call other engineers knubs for not getting into robotics sooner (no wait you can't do that actually), or whatever that involves bettering electronics.
or am I assuming too much?
t. not an electrical engineer

[Anonymous No.12138083]

>>12134385
it's gets worse after your PhD

[Anonymous No.12138151]

>>12138012
The electrical engineering education that I got mostly covered:
- Varying levels of math such as calculus, signal transforms, and probability.
- General circuit analysis.
- Some digital and analog CMOS circuit design.
- Some programming of microcontrollers such as Arduinos.
It's not that these are useless skills, but that they seem very basic for the title of "engineer". Like if you were to teach someone how to hammer nails and use a measuring tape, and then say you gave them an education in being an architect. Circuit analysis and programming are certainly fundamentals to engineering, but I am left completely unaware of what the state of the art is and what direction to apply these skills. Continuing the house building analogy, imagine teaching someone learning architecture in-depth about material strengths of different woods but completely foregoing any discussion of the common practice of stud framing. I'm without the tools to actually locate and adequately fille a niche where my skills might actually be useful. Instead, when I do get a job (and I have), I sit at a desk and do what I'm told to do which amounts to just running simulations of things.

[Anonymous No.12138188]

>>12138012
>>12138151
cont.
To get a bit more on thread, I learned nothing from University that wouldn't have been acquired simply as a matter of attempting to practice the discipline. Learning to code Arduinos isn't hard, children can do it and the slight step up to interrupts and such where they are needed isn't that complex. You could learn the fundamentals of circuits pretty quickly by reading a book when needed. etc.
I learned nothing that some hobbyist wouldn't be able to far outpace, the education should have provided more information about the current state of engineering rather than grinding simple fundamentals for 4 years straight.
Hence, I don't really feel like a complete engineer. Nor are the things I know really useful to anyone in my life. Tradesmen meanwhile are infinitely useful to have around, since they are rooted in practicality and work on common things.

[Anonymous No.12138213]

IT major here tempted to drop out and be an electrician or some shit. In my Junior year it just feels like a huge waste.

[Anonymous No.12138280]

>>12138213
Your time has been invested to deeply to quit now. Although theres nothing wrong with your idea practically.

[Anonymous No.12138449]

>>12137830
You'll never know.

[Anonymous No.12138897]

Did you study?

[Anonymous No.12138918]

>>12137817
>>12138151
>>12138188
An bachelor is engineering is simply supposed to be enough for you to get a standard job in an engineering field. So you can do most of the basic grunt work, like looking at spreadsheets, checking documents, and maybe doing some routine inspections.

[Anonymous No.12139063]

>>12138897
uhhh no??? studying is for brainlets, there's no reason to study, you should just magically know all the information after hearing about it once.

[Anonymous No.12139258]

>>12134385
BS degree just gives you general knowledge, like high school. Specialize in a career track sure, but its still just "here's the basics".
Degrees with higher knowledgebases are almost entirely learning. For example, you rarely do any experiments in biology degrees, you just spend your time learning as much of the background knowledge as possible so when you enter the field, you can start doing actual work with that foundation.
Same for the rest of that shit.
College is about making connections and learning the ABCs of field X.
Oh, and if you didn't actually study and instead treated it like "Just need to know answers to get an 80 on the test", you're a retard. You get out what you put in, and if you don't put in effort, you're going to come out knowing nothing.

[Anonymous No.12139979]

>>12134385
Try to remember it as long as possible. You'll need it.

[Anonymous No.12140191]

>>12134385
This is actually my biggest fear, as my biggest dream is that once I get out of my E.E degree I'm not gonna be a corporate wagie but basically an electrician on steroids. I love to study because I want to put hard work on the practice of it.

What's the point of engineering if you don't obtain hard, practical knowledge on real world applications?

[Anonymous No.12140416]

>>12139258
>Oh, and if you didn't actually study and instead treated it like "Just need to know answers to get an 80 on the test", you're a retard
it's really not my fault though

[Anonymous No.12140422]

>>12134385
as others have mentioned, try amphet or microdose lsd. Also, try doing more than just what a class requires of you. Play around with concepts in your free time and put time into thinking about them and how they relate to each other and stuff you already know.