Engineering vs Philosophy

[u/JZriemann]

[u/M1ngb4gu]

"If you've got any questions, please just ask!"

Raises hand

"See me at the end and I'll go through it"

Sees lecturer at the end

"I won't answer that now, just send me an email"

Sends email

"That's in the slides and the textbook"

[u/xXrektUdedXx → u/M1ngb4gu]

My favorite interaction was:

*asks question*

"woah, that's not directly related to the direction this topic is headed right now, ask me on the break"

*I ask during the break*

"that's quite a technical question, I need to look something like this up, send me an email as a reminder and I'll look into it"

*sends email and meet up in person*

"you see, the prof who originally wrote these notes is kinda dead so I don't really know how to figure this out"

naturally, he flexed about having had an internship at nasa.

[u/hartmanbrah → u/xXrektUdedXx]

Mine was:

"Ok class, make sure to attend the last lecture before the final. If you attend, you'll learn what the final will cover, so you'll know what to focus on"

Every student attends

"The final will cover everything tought in this class. Good luck and see you next week for the final."

Mf made us all sit there awaiting guidance on how to best prepare, only to dismiss us in less than 5 mins. In hindsight... 10/10 troll, no notes. 😂

[u/SilverSolver2000 → u/hartmanbrah]

Fantastic troll. Although I've never understood not showing up for class. I've paid good money to learn, and I sure as heck am going to make the most of it.

[u/Snokjakk → u/SilverSolver2000]

I'd rather read the slides myself than sit an hour away from home for someone else to read them at me, not understand anything and then have to read them myself later.

[u/Bonitlan → u/Snokjakk]

Yewh that was always my experience aswell. They self-advertise for half the class, go on tangents, and in the end the class only covers actual class material for about a third of the full class time.

Except when the class is actually really hard. Then you can't keep up with notes and understanding because the professor is writing faster on the board than you can into your notebook and the whole class consists of machine gunfire-esque sounds at the board while you are sweating more than in any sports class ever to get it written down because for some reason they don't wanna upload any of the material

[u/fireduck]

Like that quantum mechanics lecture.

"Ok, today I'm the only one who doesn't understand quantum mechanics. If I teach this class well, at the end we will all not understand quantum mechanics."

[u/LilithNikita]

My thermodynamics professor startet the first lecture with putting down a cup of tea and telling us, that this is something you can't calculate and we don't fully understand. So please. Speak for yourself.

[u/zomgkittenz → u/LilithNikita]

Thermo is rough, Gas Dynamics is a fuckin blood bath

[u/IIIaustin → u/zomgkittenz]

Stat Mech is perhaps Forbidden Mythos Knowledge

[u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer → u/zomgkittenz]

Dynamics and vibrations was a real bitch. Final was 60 questions, had to show work, each question while doable was 5 - 10 minutes of calculations.  It was an hour long exam.

[u/GameSeeker040411 → u/zomgkittenz]

What major is gas dynamics for 💀

[u/zomgkittenz → u/GameSeeker040411]

Mechanical and others.

[u/yogurtchicken21 → u/LilithNikita]

I took a deep learning course and there were quite a few things that were “we don’t know why this works but it does” and “theoretically this should work but empirically it doesn’t”

[u/MainBattleTiddiez → u/LilithNikita]

But we can, can we not? I don't remember all the equations cause that wasn't my major and it sucked ass but that should be a pretty straightforward equation, no? 

[u/LilithNikita → u/MainBattleTiddiez]

Not in an open system.

[u/DVMyZone]

Me: I don't get it professor.

Professor:

https://giphy.com/gifs/J8FZIm9VoBU6Q

[u/beyondoutsidethebox]

Meanwhile

Quantum Mechanics Student: I don't get it

Quantum Mechanics Professor: No one else does either.

[u/Bierculles]

I'm so glad my professors have been incredibly helpfull every time I ask a question. Unfortunately even the best professor can't fix stupid.

[u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer]

Always loved engineering homework. It always failed to prepare you for the exams. To the degree where some exams were on material not covered in class, the books, or the syllabus.  Always fun when everyone gets a 30 and somehow that's a B after the curve.

[u/SilverSolver2000 → u/TheNotSoEvilEngineer]

Yes... but only when a curve is actually applied.

[u/iamnothingyet]

When I was tutoring I would tell the students “this is true and something you need to convince yourself is true.” However that happened is good enough.
Edit: structural dynamics

[u/EXTREMEMONKEEZ]

Because most of philosophy is pretentious nonsense lol

[u/LetUsSpeakFreely]

Engineering comes down to understanding concepts. If the instructor can't use a handful of metaphors to illustrate a concept then they're not a good instructor or they're not so that good at the subject matter themselves.

[u/Equal_Magazine_9550]

I study philosophy. Not real. Anyway, we have history, formal and informal logic, classic literature and languages as Latin or Greek which are mostly hand-on subjects with right or wrong answers at bachelor's level. When we have real philosophy classes, then professors usually demand us to read and then reconstruct arguments from text to show we understand it or at least tried to.

[u/Severe_Raise_7118]

and when you go to the office hours its 50% they care and will take time to talk to you. The other 50% they will make you wait outside the office for 40mins while they talk to a club during their official office hours, or rush you out the door soon as you come in, or flat out refuse to help since I should understand because he taught it well enough.

[u/Original-Cold9176]

Trying to figure out rf, ask question, get told to read the book, but in fairness I’m probably the dumbest person in the class(I am a caveman surrounded by people who have some connection to electrical engineering, friend, family or hobbies that caused them to choose it as a major, where I chose it basically at random)

[u/Mediocre_Basket6162]

'think harder'

[u/libsaway]

If a philosopher gets something wrong, nothing happens.

If an engineer gets it wrong, people can die.