[sdiy] OT : School.

[Seb Francis]

All sounds very familiar.  I managed only a year of EE at uni before giving up on all the maths and theory.  I'm not too bad at maths, but I just wanted to solder some stuff together, rather than spending 95% of time with theory .. in the whole year all we built was a pretty basic linear power supply.  In any case I think I've learnt much more in the last few months from the internet, a couple of books and being part of this list than I did all year at uni.

Having said this though I have recently considered going back to education, but just trying to find a more suitable course.  Right now I'm kept pretty busy working fulltime in software, but I'm starting to have had enough of it after 4 or so years of intensive programming work.

Seb

P.S. For a not-too-much-maths approach I'm finding the book "The Art of Electonics" by Horowitz and Hill very good.


ben wrote:

> sounds a bit like myself, started doing my bachelor engineering course bout
> 7 years ago, but dropped out after 2 years. was really good at math (A's)
> and science(A's) at high school, and faired ok at uni, but struggled to stay
> interested in the theory because I always excelled at hands on stuff like
> workshop (A+'s) (its so much easier to be motivated when you can hold a
> working project). I finished a BSc, but ended up working in a dead end
> factory job unrelated to that bit of paper. I'm now studying again at
> technical college, had the soldering iron out in the first week i started,
> and am loving every bit of it and am top of the class (being part of this
> list helps lots).
>
> dunno how i'm going to fair getting a job though.
>
> on 6/11/02 4:38 PM, Doug Terrebonne at bigfootstudios at yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > All I can add is my personal experience but I got an ASEE a little over 10
> > years ago and didn't every finish my BSEE because of all the classes I would
> > have had to take that I had absolutely no interest in like Statics/Dynamics (I
> > have no interest in building bridges thank you!), lots more math, more
> > programming (which I care for), etc... Even the electronics classes I had were
> > so steeped in math and theoretical stuff I couldn't stand it... I just wanted
> > to get in there and start building stuff and see how it worked - hands on... I
> > realized I had wasted a lot of time and money going for a BSEE when what I
> > really wanted was a technical degree...
> >
> > Doug
> >
> >
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