Resist the pressure to have everything done for you by fawning nerds. Every halfway decent looking girl in the major was totally useless by graduation time due to this phenomenon.
And do yourself a favor and do what I did - don't live in engineering dorms, don't go to engineering parties, and try to make as many friends outside of the major as possible - college is full of cool awesome people and very few of them are in your major.
And take some humanities classes, I've met too many engineers who didn't know ANYTHING about anything except for their job. There is more to life. Oh, and CS guys - do this too, that's how you meet girls in college. The opportunities are endless.
Normal people make mediocre engineers. If you want to be exceptional, you need to skip the parties, forget about girls, suck it up, and put in the work. You'll have the rest of your life to regret the crushing social isolation!
The only thing I really agree with you about is putting in the work. Otherwise, absolutely not (though, maybe my sarcasm detector is broken). Nerdy and anti-social != smart and capable, and some of the best engineers around are surprisingly well rounded human beings.
Not in my experience. Visit Caltech or MIT and count how many engineering students there are surprisingly well rounded. To become the best you have to focus on your field at the expense of other things.
Resist the pressure to have everything done for you by fawning nerds. Every halfway decent looking girl in the major was totally useless by graduation time due to this phenomenon.
And do yourself a favor and do what I did - don't live in engineering dorms, don't go to engineering parties, and try to make as many friends outside of the major as possible - college is full of cool awesome people and very few of them are in your major.
And take some humanities classes, I've met too many engineers who didn't know ANYTHING about anything except for their job. There is more to life. Oh, and CS guys - do this too, that's how you meet girls in college. The opportunities are endless.
reph 1 points · Jul 2011
Normal people make mediocre engineers. If you want to be exceptional, you need to skip the parties, forget about girls, suck it up, and put in the work. You'll have the rest of your life to regret the crushing social isolation!
[deleted] 1 points · Jul 2011
The only thing I really agree with you about is putting in the work. Otherwise, absolutely not (though, maybe my sarcasm detector is broken). Nerdy and anti-social != smart and capable, and some of the best engineers around are surprisingly well rounded human beings.
reph 1 points · Jul 2011
Not in my experience. Visit Caltech or MIT and count how many engineering students there are surprisingly well rounded. To become the best you have to focus on your field at the expense of other things.