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Thermodynamics is the subject I most wish I retained more of from college. Studied just enough to pass, then promptly forgot most of it. And since it’s a subject that basically never comes up afterwards unless you’re doing pretty specialized work, it’s pretty much all gone.
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I’d like to make much better versions of joking-but-not-joking meta-shitposts like this. Complete with Gibbs free energy calculations, shitposting efficiency etc.
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I crack myself up Memetic Carnot cycle
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This is my ranking in 2021. If you’d asked me right after graduation in 1997, my ranking would have been way different.
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Shop class tops the list not because it’s difficult to pass or because of glorification of working with hands. It tops the list because it calibrates your sense of just how much detail reality has, which then becomes your measure of the contentfullness of everything else.
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The 2-course freshman humanities (literature, psych/soc) track is gone but there’s a humanities environment class 🧐 CAD has gone from 2 to 1 Fluid mechanics also from 2 to 1 Energy/power plant stuff is gone I should really dig up my transcript and do a proper diff.
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But basically, more hands-on lab courses, more computing, less of all traditional mechanical engineering, humanities/social sciences killed off except for economics, and new elements on environmental stuff and biology I like that they’ve kept room for electives as wide as before
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All I can say is that the "Intro to materials science and engineering" class I had as part of my engineering degree was like the "opposite of meditation" that was asking about
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What should one do to get the effect on one's mind the opposite of that one would get pursuing meditation? (serious question - meditation is dumb and, as we know, intelligence is nothing more than reversed stupidity)
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In my degree it was an “easy” class with very little math and 80% just familiarization/memorization with various materials, alloys, etc. It was like geography almost. It wasn’t till much later that I appreciated it.
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