Some people also confuse number of hours with actual difficulty. If the only real trouble with engineering were the number of hours, I wouldn't have seen so many hard-working classmates flunk out of the program. There does come a point when hard work isn't enough, and you need to prove that you're quite a bit smarter than the average bear. There comes a point when you look over and you see a classmate who is banging his head against the wall because he just can't figure out how something works, and you look away because you know he's one of the Cursed Fifteen (that's the 15 guys who would flunk out every semester from second year and onwards, after the >50% bloodbath of first year).Boyish-Tigerlilly wrote:If it can be put to use, and it's not something you can do while sleeping, it is real work. It may not be has hard as other real work though. I mean, political science isn't as difficult as electrical engineering.
That's not to say these guys were stupid, or lazy, or otherwise contemptible; they just weren't smart enough to make the grade. Because being the smartest kid in your high-school calculus class doesn't necessarily mean you'll be able to survive third-year engineering.
