> whereas engineering professors seemed to be a bit more subtle and guiding where their students falter, as though they perhaps had the exact same ideas when th

> whereas engineering professors seemed to be a bit more subtle and guiding where their students falter, as though they perhaps had the exact same ideas when they were younger and want to gently discourage the same mistakes. It's because once something fails, in engineering the work doesn't stop. You have to root cause it and understand the failure. That's a valuable exercise in itself.