Top 5 Reasons It's Great to Be an Engineering Student

A little aside from the world of jobs.

I just read this article on Wired about "Top 5 Reasons It Sucks to Be an Engineering Student. Below are some reasons why it's great to be an engineer.

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5. Your textbook(with professor/TA/co-student's help) is actually useful.
Sure, reading "Guns, Germs and Steel" is certainly interesting. But you could have done that at anytime. Who needs college for that? Try learning Electrical Engineering on your own...

4. Engineering professors know their stuff.
Sure they maybe cranky at times, but rest assured, they know their material. Because they had to go through much more rigorous schooling than you had.

3. Quality Counseling?
Ha! Engineers have jobs lined up for them. You don't need counseling. Just search any job site for the number of engineering jobs compared to psychologists. Engineers are smart enough to research into what type of jobs they want. Plus you'll make twice as much as most other majors. Not to mention, you are contributing to the world of science! We need people to be engineers so they can build alternative energy sources; We don't need more lawyers arguing if McDonalds causes obesity.

2. Grades? Who cares!
Engineering teaches you solid principles to build upon.

You can get straight As in college and not learn a thing. But if you really try to learn in your engineering classes, you'll develop some amazing problem solving skills. Even if you drop out anytime, you'll still have a lot useful skills than any social science major.

1. Every assignment is challenging.
You'll never get an assignment like this: "How does an author use metaphors to convey the meaning of life?"

I don't about you, but the majority of my computer engineering projects and homeworks were immensely challenging. Even the smartest kids in college still had to spend night and day learning on the assignments. If you found the majority of your engineering homework easy, quit college and start your own engineering company right away.