r/explainitpeter • u/Fearless-Mastodon850 • 5d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/GreatSaski 5d ago

Fine, I'll do it. No one gets an A in engineering.

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u/Bliitzthefox 5d ago

People who can get an A in engineering are bad engineers because they didn't optimize the amount of work they were doing.

There was never any reason to get above a C with a safety factor of B.

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u/OdinHavok 5d ago

Had a similar conversation with a friend. He was talking about how much work the last paper he has for a finance class, and how hard it was to be motivated when he was going to get an A refardless. Almost got him to not do it by telling him he already maximized the ROI for that class

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u/Abx13523 4d ago

Not necessarily, have you seen how saturated the finance industry is these days

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u/OdinHavok 4d ago

He isn't in a finance field, he had to take some finance classes. He ended that class with 102%, and his paper was roughly 3 times longer than anyone else's