Profs and faculty are creeps. There is no oversight. The EE degree I got has never got me any jobs. I got into controls engineering by teaching myself PLC’s and autocad. I flunked Psych 101 (we are required to take a certain amt of humanities courses, Dr. Corso flunked me). I later took it at a community college and aced it without any effort at all. The F Corso gave me ruined my GPA. Viscardi flunked me in philosophy. These courses are sabotage and conspiracy which is throughout Tech. I can tell you a high GPA is infinitely more important to employers than a Tech degree. 10 to 1 male/female ratio. Dangerous people at Tech and surrounding Atlanta will cyber bully you for life. Tech puts you on the radar of a lot of bad people at Turner Broadcasting and Atlanta journal constitution.
Wait, it’s been 30 years and you still remember the profs you had? And you’re still this bitter? So bitter at you need to open an account on a college site to badmouth a school?
You have had 30 years to move on.
I graduated from college in 1980, got my Masters in 1983 or 1984. I can name maybe 2 of the profs I had… their importance in my life faded as I moved past that time in my life.
My sincere hope is that you’re simply having a very bad day. If this is actually as consuming as it appears, then maybe you should consider speaking to a professional. That’s not meant to sound snarky, it’s absolutely sincere. Life’s too short to carry all that anger for 30 years.
I know nothing about “Tech” but I have to assume that he teachers you hated may have moved on in life…teaching elsewhere or possibly retired. I’m not sure that a 30 year old review has any validity at all.
But I do hope you have a good day… it doesn’t sound as though this one started off too well.
Degrees don’t get you jobs. YOU get yourself jobs with what you learned from the degree.
Did you ever attend GT?
If you ever walked in my shoes or attended Tech, you would know better
No one can claim to have walked in your shoes or to speak to your individual experience at Tech, but you make it clear in your post that you failed several classes and then struggled to find a job because of a low GPA and lack of demonstrable skills. This should hardly be surprising to any aspiring Tech student. Getting into Tech is not a panacea for learning all the skills you will need in your career or for getting a job in your chosen field. However, it is an institution that has produced many leaders in industry and academia and many alumni, myself included, are proud of the college experience the institute gave us.
In your post, you take no responsibility for any of your outcomes. You blame not learning CAD or PLC’s on Tech, but did you ever check to see if you could have taken classes at Tech that covered these topics? You then blame the two professors in the humanities courses you chose to take for failing you, but did you consider that your grades in those courses likely reflected your performance in the course? You go on to say that even having to take humanities classes at all is a “conspiracy” meant to “sabotage” you, but many students at Tech get solid grades in these humanities classes while learning valuable non-technical skills that help to make them more academical well-rounded students, citizens, and professionals.
I don’t even know what to make of your last two sentences, except to echo what bjkmom has already stated. You are clearly struggling, and I hope you have the courage to go get the help you need to move on and make changes in your life. Your experience at Tech, which was clearly far less than you had hoped, is in the past. I encourage you to focus on the future, which you still have some control over, and to reach out for any help you may need to do so.
Wow! Now I know not to travel back in time 30 years and attend Tech! Thanks for the heads up. :-bd
But seriously, the Tech of today isn’t very similar to the Tech of the mid 80’s. While GT is still rigorous, they now do a much better job with Freshman classes, offer far more academic support, and have a much better female to male ratio.
And while GPA is very important when applying for your first few jobs, afterwards your demonstrative skills and work history become much more important.
The Tech of today is not the Tech of 30 years ago. This is another example that readers should look for current information, not stories from 30 years ago. There is another poster who tells stories from 20+ years ago. Both seem to have sour grapes. At least you were clear with when you attended.
Take solace, Debbie has you beat, and she actually did well in college…
Closing thread. The OP seems to have abandoned the thread, if it was even anything more than a hit-and-run posting to begin with