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<p>Sleep deprivation, drug/alcohol addiction and escapism, insomnia, emotional instability, misplaced anger - wait, were we talking about workers on Wall Street or about engineering undergrads? After all, I can think of plenty of the latter who suffered from the exact same problems that the article described. Plenty of working engineers I know will think back to their student days and are simply relieved that those days are over, with the widespread sentiment that an engineering major is a traumatic experience. </p>
<p>*"Engineering educators “are very attached to the concept that engineering education is painful, dry and difficult.” [Olin College Vice President for Research Sharra Kerns] recalls that earlier in her career, when students told her that they liked her course, a colleague said to her, [“</a>; ‘You must not be teaching it right.’ ”](<a href=“http://www.prism-magazine.org/women/feature_competing.cfm]“”>http://www.prism-magazine.org/women/feature_competing.cfm) *</p>
<p>The main difference is that at least Wall Street workers receive generous pay packets, gourmet meals on company expense accounts, and free car service. Engineering students get none of that. Heck, many of them are living on Ramen and the McDonalds Dollar Menu.</p>