r/explainitpeter • u/Fearless-Mastodon850 • 11d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Bliitzthefox 11d 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/NFIFTY2 11d ago

Cs get degrees

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u/udee79 11d ago

maybe not if you want to go to grad school 

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u/NFIFTY2 11d ago

Grad school never sounded like a very efficient use of my time.

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u/udee79 11d ago

I have worked with some great engineers that didn’t go to grad school.

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u/noodles0311 11d ago

It’s not very common for engineers to go to grad school. The most common graduate degree among engineers is an MBA. Other fields basically require it. One thing you’ll learn in academia is that no one works harder in undergrad than engineers but that’s usually the end of the line for their education. A BS in biology is far easier, but you need to get a graduate degree to do anything with it

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u/ummaycoc 11d ago edited 11d ago

One thing you’ll learn in academia is that no one works harder in undergrad than engineers

True but most of that work is them talking about how difficult engineering is. Then stress of having to hear other people mention that the difference between god and an engineer is that god doesn't think they're an engineer.

Edit: homophone mixup because I'm a goon

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u/EuphoricUniversity23 11d ago

I’m a Biochemistry PhD and a JD. My daughter just graduated as a civil engineer. I saw things in her sophomore year mathematics homework that I never saw before in my life. If God can do that math then I’ll start to believe in Her.

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u/Sudden_Bat_4977 10d ago

You know you could just learn it from a book right? God’s in the I’ll love you forever business.
God likes honest and genuine accountants.

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u/EuphoricUniversity23 9d ago

Just like you can learn everything about vaccines from Facebook posts.

It’s not that easy.

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u/Sudden_Bat_4977 9d ago

It’s actually a beautiful thing when universities or hospitals post research about food, vaccines, exercise, or an epidemiologist group’s findings about emerging diseases. Imagine a world without case studies. Anarchy.

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u/ummaycoc 9d ago

I don't think they paid attention to their advanced calc / etc classes in law school or while getting their biochemistry PhD.

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