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Old 02-03-2009, 05:27 PM   #54
Nancy
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Originally Posted by hulkrogan View Post
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In my opinion if you go through engineering and never bend the rules a bit, you're just plain stupid. You are going to end up being the type of worker that spends 10 hours a day at work and gets pissed off by the slacker who is there for 7 hours and spends 2 of them on the Internet. That same slacker is probably doing just as much work as you because they learned how to be efficient in University.

I think that's part of the reason Engineering is so lax on cheating/group work for assignments. There was a day set up at the beginning of every year to distribute people's old lab manuals. If you did engineering 201 without a 'road map', you are terrible at time management.

When you get a job after university it's not important that you come up with the answers yourself, it's important to come up with the correct answer in a timely fashion. If you have to work with others around you, look at other's work published on the Internet, it doesn't matter. I honestly think cheating your way through engineering helps you develop a good chunk of the skill set that you'll use for future problem solving.
This is why things engineered in North America are built so well.
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