Here I am. With nothing to do 6 hours before another damn mid-term that I haven't studied for and that I am not going to. Far from actualizing my innate curiosity about the world, university has turned into a semester long marathon that keeps me from doing things that actually improve my abilities. Weekly mid-terms, homework and reading assignments just abase any sense of wonder I had about formal education.
I still love engineering but I honestly hate engineering education. It's the only major that can take bright, creative minds and turn us into formula referring zombies. Creativity dies an undignified death in between "Signals and Systems" and "Electromagnetics."
Back to Oppenheim pg 358 "Signals and Systems" second edition
4 comments:
Formula-referring Zombies!!!!!What an apt description of our fellow professionals! lol! btw does this Oppenheim guy bore one to death? apparently, he occupies the most number of shelves dedicated to electrical engineering in our library.he seems to be the most appreciated electrical engineer after Rowan Atkinson.....fortunately (or unfortunately?)i haven't come across his work in 4 semesters because our college is gracious enough to keep the related subjects at a safe distance in later semesters....till then ignorance is bliss!
Yeah bro...when an exam is handed out with an 18 page formula booklet you can tell that something is wrong.
Oppenheim's not too bad actually...his textbook actually tried to develop intuition. Apparently he's the MIT teaching legend in Signals and Systems and a rather apt substitute for God in DSP and Discrete Signal Processing.
PS....he doesn't come anywhere close to Rowan Atkinson though.
Hey,
You do realize that there are many of us who feel like you!
Engineering education has become so rigid in its way of disseminating information that most of us do indeed become 'zombies'.
To be honest, we are studying concepts and theories that created revolutions in their respective times but sadly most of us do not really appreciate it or is it the education system such that we are conditioned to only think about grades, so that in the long run we gain no 'real perspective'? I do not know if there is a right answer but it is indeed sad, we just become disillusioned, not to say that most of us are not already with the current 'world situation'.
I guess in the end it is important to do what you love - yes there will be frustrating times, but hey, who said life was a piece of royal chocolate cake? :)
Have fun!
-- A disillusioned engineering student
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