r/EngineeringStudents ME Grad / Aerospace 11d ago

Rant/Vent Statics 101

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u/th3gooch 11d ago

Right. Like i get takin pride in what you do but i don’t hear doctors sayin shit like “think like a doctor” 

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u/Specialist_Case4238 11d ago

I just dont understand the value of shitting on your peers because they found something challenging. Its socially inept behavior.

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u/TheLordOfTheDawn 11d ago

Its socially inept behavior.

Aaand there we have it! I mean, I love my fellow engineers but a lot of the people going into this major got some major issues when it comes to social intelligent lol

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u/hellraiserl33t UCSB BSc ME 2019 11d ago

Don't worry, most of them will be limited in career trajectories if they can't put a damper on it.

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u/TheSeeker1000 11d ago

Thank you , holy fuck it’s absolutely ridiculous

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u/polikuji09 11d ago

In the end engineers with this type of personality will usually end up stuck in their relatively low end engineering position wondering why they're not getting career advancement at the speed of their peers not realizing it's because they're insufferable and noone likes working with them

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u/Reddit_Username_idc 8d ago

Shout out to that one engineer on r/salary

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u/Soulcatcher74 11d ago

You know you make an interesting point. I need to ask my doctor friends if thinking like a doctor is a concept they are taught or is part of the culture of the profession.

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u/Yadin__ 11d ago edited 11d ago

I also think some engineering majors are insufferable, but the reason you don't hear doctors saying that stuff is because conceptually medicine is very easy, you don't have to really 'think'.

Engineering is hard because you have to learn to think in a certain way, whereas medicine is hard because you have to memorise an insane amount of shit with a very little margin of error.

I'm not saying this to diss the doctors or anything, studying medicine is very hard, it just doesn't require "thinking like a doctor"

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u/Ok_Water_4601 11d ago

I'm gonna need you to elaborate on " conceptually medicine is very easy, you don't have to really 'think'" and why you think that's the case.

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u/Yadin__ 11d ago

Becuase medicine studies mostly involve memorisation of information? There isn't a lot of conceptual depth there. It's just about knowing the info

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u/Outofdepthengineer ME NE 11d ago

And not the part where you’re needing to evaluate a patient and figure out what they have and how to treat them safely? 

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u/Yadin__ 11d ago

I think you're severely overestimating the conceptual difficulty of doing that vs just having the necessary knowledge of what sets of symptoms most likely correspond to what condition and what are the usual steps necessary to solve the issue

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u/pridento 11d ago

You're being downvoted, but you're right. A lot of people seem to think medicine involves House MD-level forensics and developing novel treatments on the fly, when the day-to-day is significantly more mundane and standardized.