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engineering school environments can be very toxic. I think that for the most part it's possible to cover their amount of content in 4 standard years, but there
by pokpokpok 12y ago
engineering school environments can be very toxic. I think that for the most part it's possible to cover their amount of content in 4 standard years, but there needs to be changes in the structure of constant bewilderment and test taking
- madisonmay 12y agoIf you're interested on a radical new take on engineering education, take a look at Olin College of Engineering. It's not perfect, but it's a move in the right direction -- Olin has traded strict competition for teamwork, tests and exams for project-based learning, and has gone a long way towards removing the stress associated with many other engineering schools. It's a sort of institutional petri dish, and I'm curious to see how many of the principles put in place at this smaller institution are applied in more common settings.
- paganel 12y ago> engineering school environments can be very toxic I still have very intense school-related nightmares from time to time, even though I'm now in my mid-30s. I decided to drop-out in my last year of CS school, but before that almost any joy of attending my school lectures or studying for its exams had been killed off inside of me (luckily enough for me I discovered PHP and Python during my student years in my free time, which gave me back the joy of building and discovering things).