Engineering is the only semblance of hope i have of leaving the third world, and its ruining my love for the field.
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I have just come to fully realise how utterly and incredibly fucked i am. I dont know what to do, and i feel so, so hopeless. I love engineering,...

Engineering majors need like 4 years of pure humanities classes to fix what’s wrong in their mind. This whole thread is so cruel to op.

  • tocopherol@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    53·
    7 months ago

    Why do I subject myself to the torture by visiting this wretched hive? First comment I saw “We hired black female EE’s before, but never when they showed signs of an energy-eating crybaby.” I normally have a lot of empathy for people but if I learned this commenter had terminal ball cancer I would chuckle

    edit: The next comment below that was a bit better:

    "Two of my professors were Nigerian-American women with PhDs in EE. You can do it! Don’t give up and make sure to ask for help from every resource possible it doesn’t make you weak. The west is far more open to you than the doomers on the internet may want you to believe. If I can help you in any way with educational advice please let me know. My university is in a low cost of living area and has scholarships for women in engineering. "

    But yeah, there is something about some of the people that are drawn to engineering that seems to prevent them from developing humanity

    • Shinji_Ikari [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      42·
      7 months ago

      The post def had some supportive stuff in it but I was disgusted by the outpouring of anti-support.

      These folks will say this kind of thing then be confused when they learn intellectuals were rounded up during the cultural revolution. It was basically these guys on the chopping block.

      • WayeeCool [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
        13·
        7 months ago

        These folks will say this kind of thing then be confused when they learn intellectuals were rounded up during the cultural revolution.

        Funny thing is people look back at the cultural revolution and get a little squeamish… but it produced results that returned dividends over the long run. Sending a few million of these assholes on state mandated work tours of impoverished regions and neglected rural areas was able to salvage those of them capable of being humbled and learning some basic humanity. The ones who irredeemable tend to run or fight rather than learning how the other classes live and how to be a decent human being. The current president of China and his own father are an example, they were what the US cold warriors would hold up as heroic political exhiles or dissidents unfairly treated… that is they would have, if they hadn’t come out the other side redder than red.