Well as long as we're throwing around rash generalizations, Engineers don't get involved on campus, except occasionally with engineering groups. That is why th

Well as long as we're throwing around rash generalizations, Engineers don't get involved on campus, except occasionally with engineering groups. That is why they don't realize that there are other majors out there that work their asses off. I know a couple of theater majors who, while my engineering roommates and I are tailgating, are spending the entire morning working on a show or are actually in class on a saturday morning. In response to point 2, it seems like a lot of engineering grades are basically arbitrary. Usually the average ends up being between 55-70, so the professor just has to set some sort of curve, which they can put wherever - they are, however, generally less forgiving when doing so. To point #1 Last semester, I had to make up an idea and design an interface from scratch. Right now, one of my roommates is working on hypothesis testing for a tetris AI system, one is working on creating his own just in time compiler, and there's a number of other projects going on at any given time. This article seriously sounds like it was written by a 19 year old sophomore that hasn't yet gotten over the bitterness/arrogance of being in a really challenging field and hasn't even tried to find something to do in college other than his homework. You can be an engineer and enjoy yourself, both academically and socially, it just takes a little bit of |oh no| creativity.