A blog in Wired has generated a surprisingly amount of discussion on the internet in the past few days about engineering. A post in Slashdot has over 900 posts about it and with a very good range of information on why engineering deserves more respect than it currently receives.
As an engineering student I have a few thoughts of my own. One thing is for certain: engineering is hard, challenging and demands a lot of dedication. For example, just in the past week I spent about 5 days in a project, in which I spent about 30 hours solid working on it. Sometimes I feel as if to get an A in an engineering class you have to work 6 times as hard as many other Liberal arts, and business majors, etc. Even worse, to get a C you still have to work harder than said majors. That is not to say those degrees don't matter, but the reality is that there is a big difference in the amount of work an engineering student is expected to do.
However, as hard as it gets, the many late nights studying, the all-nighters, the frustrations and the headaches, Engineering *#$%ing ROCKS! No other field lets you take math and physics to create amazing stuff. And to all the engineering students: hang in there. We are going to make it through no matter if it takes us 6 years!
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