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On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Orlando Andico wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ..
> > A good command in Math would definitely be very advantageous as all
> > students in Ateneo go through the Math Department and they are the first
> > ones to give the acid test and kick students out if need be.....next will
> ..
>
> I'll say something about UP. I've always been at best an indifferent
> student (still haven't finished all the odds and ends, even though I did
> my thesis 4 years ago). And a really crappy subject called "Statics of
> Rigid Bodies" almost did me in. I had to take it three times. And it's
> almost completely irrelevant to electrical engineering at large!!
>
Well, Orly, I've gone through much the same thing too (I had to take the
same course twice myself :-P ), but I think that it has to do with the
fact that our courses are supposed to be 'engineering' courses, and the
college *requires* for some reason that all engineering students take
them. It's a political issue: the powers that be believe that
overspecialization is a Bad Thing(tm). Our only consolation is that these
other engineering courses also do take electrical engineering service
courses, which they like probably about as much as we liked ES 11...
> So yeah, you have to be either really good at math or struggle dumbly
> (like I did) through thermodynamics and mechanics and crap like that. The
> major courses by comparison weren't too tough, in spite of my lousy study
> habits.
>
The major courses do become math-intensive too, at least some of them.
Do you remember taking linear systems and probability? Computer science is
just as mathematically-inclined as well, if not more so.
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