[sdiy] Who Needs a Degree?

[Paul Schreiber]

> I>> A semester later he was out, expelled for non-payment of all fees and
> total academic failure, with an Animal House GPA of exactly 0.0. The cash
> turned into parties, the parties interfered with attending class. His one
> chance at a sheepskin collapsed, doomed by the teenage immaturity that all
> of us simply must muddle through.
>>

De facto, he doesn't think like an engineer.


>> Today he's a successful engineer. He managed to apprentice himself to a
> startup, and to parley that job into others where his skills showed 
> through,
> and where enlightened bosses valued his design flair despite the handicap 
> of
> no degree.
>>

No, he's not an engineer. He is a highly skilled *technician*. If he really 
is that good,
he'll have no trouble breezing through a BSEE.