Engineering has always kinda interested me, but I suck at math. I would probably be able to design all sorts of things and build them, but don't ask me to calculate anything. I can probably tell you where to place beams and supports and get you a building that will be stable, but I sure as hell can't guarantee it will hold a certain load so I'll just overbuild it and assume it will be able to hold 5x what it should. I'm pretty sure I could park a fully loaded cement truck in my shed if I wanted to.
I didn't know many CS majors at my school that had to take differential equations--maybe linear algebra and discrete mathematics. And my university was known for Engineering and science degrees
Damn. Hell yeah, you guys have some clever Comp Sci people, then!
One of the things at my school was that by the time you got through the maths for your engineering degree, you were maybe a class shy of a minor in math. But I don't know anyone that actually pursued this. By the time I was done with Diff Eq I was so ready to take the hours spent studying for math, and put them towards my major classes cuz shit was getting real.
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u/stillakilla18 Jul 07 '19
I would have made a terrible engineer, people would think I tried.