When I was in engineering undergrad (1993-97), popular non-scitech reads were: Adams, Pratchett, Vonnegut, LOTR, Catch 22. And I hate to admit it...Ayn Rand (to our credit, mostly hated)
Has the list changed much since? What did engineering students in the 00’s and ‘10’s read?
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finite + infinite games was one of the best reading recs i ever cribbed from okcupid
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infinite jest sort of the worst, tho it did get me into DFW on a whole so no regrets
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You didn’t major in engineering though did you? I thought you learned programming later.
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o i'm sorry. i didn't realize you had to major in engineering to be considered an 'engineering student' :P
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fwiw i left off what i'd consider to be 'non-engineering student' reads
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fwiw i think you’d be making a mistake to disregard it based on your understanding of how campuses work and what you’ve been told about my paper credentials but I don’t really have anything to refute with other than every other human i know that’s read it was an “eng” major
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I guess it might differ by campus, how segregated they are physically, how much they mix with other groups etc. What you read that overlapped with popular engineering campus reads is probably much more eclectic

