Fnord wrote:
Maths skills were easy for me to learn once algebra started making sense. Seeing a quadratic formula as a system and being able to visualize the curve of 'y' versus 'x' is also a useful skill. Since mathematics is the language of science, my career choice was engineering, which is the creative expression of science (imo).
(Know the difference between an engineer and a technician? A technician solves problems; an engineer prevents problems from happening.)
Learning engineering was the easy part. Holding down two (or more) jobs to put myself through university was work -- grants only go so far, and full-ride scholarships don't usually get offered to someone who is not a basketball or football player.
This always bothered me to no end, I could never afford to finish college and just had to get a real job since I could not hold a job and go, , yet those who pretty much are never going to use or need a degree or even care about one (or may never finish one) get theirs paid for totally and not only that get all kinds of perks (and don't get me started on what those guy's do to us female students)
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06 Feb 2014, 8:36 am
