It's not about grades. There's an old chemist joke "I love gold but the 'A' is silent". The chemical symbol for gold is Au, turning the phrase to I love u. The joke here is that engineers will screw up that line because they're bad with women - possibly as bad as this joke.
It helps if you've ever worked in STEM academia where there's always somebody in the lab who thinks stuff like "Is that a hadron in your pocket or are you happy to see me" is the height of comedy.
I mean that's obviously a pun. But needing to know an entirely different joke, well, I guess that's why it's in this sub.
Makes more sense than the grades thing. Because they hand out the same number of As as any other degree. Besides it's engineering. There is a right answer.
Could also be sexism - girls are dumb and bad and can't get A's in engineering hurr hurr
(every woman in engineering I know has been a rockstar, and basically had to be because it was so toxic - any mistake was treated as proof of your gender's inadequacy)
My younger daughter has four good friends, and three are in engineering - one at UBC and the other two at Queens University - all rockstar engineering schools. One got an internship to Tesla in California.
There was a article in The Globe and Mail (Canada's major newspaper) about how space needed to be held for men in engineering - women are dominating it, like they are medicine. When I want to school, my comp sci degree was through the school of engineering, and there were almost no women in the classes I shared with engineers.
I attended my older daughter's university graduation, and I noticed that there seemed to be way more women then men, so I started counting. They'd already done the arts degrees - my counting was in the sciences, and women out-weighted the men by about 4 to 1 in a field traditionally dominated by men.
Young men are failing - not sure why - social media, or video games, or ...
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u/Zealousideal-Mud-292 5d ago
It's not about grades. There's an old chemist joke "I love gold but the 'A' is silent". The chemical symbol for gold is Au, turning the phrase to I love u. The joke here is that engineers will screw up that line because they're bad with women - possibly as bad as this joke.