Engineering School Sucks

It was told that, in the United States, all the science and engineering schools don’t get the reputation as the arts and humanities counterpart. That’s true — that’s why people always said Harvard, Princeton, Yale, etc as the top school in the United States. MIT is an exception because there is a lot of Nobel Laureates, but how many people knows Nobel prize if there is not so much cash awarded?

Engineering is like that — we always remember Newton as the one who coined the classical mechanics, Einstein as the one who helped the invention of atomic bomb, also the people in less-useful mathematics, such as Fourier, Laplace, L’Hopital, Rene Decartes, Lebniz; but they are all European and they all lived in the age of blooming development of science and knowledge.

I have been the New York Poly for a week and what I found is that, the people who were here were great! The inventor of VCR, the inventor of microwave oven, the inventor of non-sticky pan, the inventor of baby milk bottle plastic, and a lot else. But what I feel is that, nowadays, the people are less repectful to the scientists, because they don’t know science.

This is a sad story. Science can’t help you make money but helped you to refine your method of thinking and helped you to be smart. You may not want to use science to earn a living but you can’t be totally ignorant to that. However, a lot of people do.