<p>Another thing is that I feel many engineering professors believe that engineering classes need to be painful in order to be effective and what is the purpose of making exams with class average in the 50's. I also feel that professors at my school seriously don't care about teaching but research.</p>
<p>I'll drink to the lack of girls. Though, one of the finest girls I've met is a CHE like me! And to think, she had a football player boyfriend and I got her anyway. Ha! Take that...brains over brawn anytime!</p>
<p>And that GPA ish is a bummer. I have so much respect for my 2 or 3 peers who graduate with 4.0s - my engineering peers, that is.</p>
<p>Nonlinear systems.</p>
<p>Lack of girls definitely...</p>
<p>Reiterating "lack of girls," but for an entirely different reason than y'all probably are. There's a whole lotta testosterone I get to wade through every day, and if I even come close to talking about my feelings ("I'm really sad that we ran out of coffee today!") my coworkers get all jittery, and don't quite know what to do. It's pretty amusing.</p>
<p>On the other hand, you all have to consider the fact that if there were more girls in the industry, the food and beverages at conferences and society meetings would be MUCH worse than it currently is. I have never seen pasta salad at an engineering function. I have never seen white wine spritzers at an engineering function. I <em>have</em>, however, seen more beef tenderloin and high-quality beer than you can shake a stick at. If there were more girls, you'd start having vegetarian options foisted upon you, I promise, and you'd be served a lot more lemonade than you'd really want to drink.</p>
<p>It's kind of a beautiful thing.</p>
<p>Nonlinear systems.</p>
<p>Well, that's where numerical analysis comes in =/ </p>
<p>My hate:
Big project that I have no idea where to start...</p>
<p>1) The amount of work
2) Girls who look like guys and vice versa
3) Professors who can't teach
4) Crappy TAs
5) Bad books
6) Low GPA</p>
<p>Professors that actually know the material and kill you on the tests.</p>
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1) The amount of work
2) Girls who look like guys and vice versa
3) Professors who can't teach
4) Crappy TAs
5) Bad books
6) Low GPA
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<p>I'd like to comment on this one.</p>
<p>Firstly number 3 is a problem with many majors not just engineering. It tends to be more dependent on the school as well. Most profs at my school are very experienced in the field so they have the knowledge but many also are not very good at communicating that knowledge for students. We don't have TA's.</p>
<p>I also found number 2 pretty funny because its true :)</p>
<p>for me at grad school I have taken 3 classes, 2 of them are 100 percent guys. The 3rd one is 80 percent guys, the only reason for that is gilrs from BME or CHE taking the class I guess.</p>
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<p>More like professors that actually know the material but don't want YOU to know it.</p>
<p>I think it is more of they teach in a way that they don't want students to understand</p>
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<p>I actually like pasta salad!!!</p>
<p>I have a feeling that's the case sometime. Either they think its so easy (For them only!) so they don't cover it well enough or they want to fail students....</p>
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<p>Silly Yankee. Steak is better.</p>
<p>I think i have to complain about the lack of good teachers in my school....</p>