An engineer would have thought out all the steps necessary to successfully complete an entire post without botching the effort before he or she even stepped up to the keyboard to send prose and wisdom into the world.
I spent a good bit of time as a philosophy major, and I will echo this sentiment. The upper level undergrad classes that I took - meant to act as lower-level graduate classes, in fact, though with different assigments - were complete jokes. Bullshit alone is sufficient for grades which should be reserved for above average work. Some flowery language and an indication that you read a brief synopsis of the text you should have read in full, and there’s your B.
Of course, my sample space is quite small. I will say that my favorite philosophy professors did not have philosophy undergrads - they had biology, engineering, and physics degrees.
Yeah, law schools just detest philosophy majors.
No, but I have noticed that there seems to be a rough correlation between a poster’s apparent intelligence and his propensity for starting pointless Pit threads in which the one is inversely proportional to the other. Make of this what you will.
Someday you’ll be lucky to meet a professor with a chemistry degree and bask in their sublime enlightenment. 
As I’m fond of saying, “Engineers built the world; and we’ll probably destroy it, too.”
Isaac Asimov, is that you?
I hope not. I’m not getting his royalties and I don’t want to have to live his lifestyle…as it were.
I have noticed that engineers tend to say things like this.
Arrogance is generally considering yourself greater than you really are. That’s one way to define it. Extreme pride would be the other. The former most likely wouldn’t be earned, but it’s there. The latter? Yea, that might be earned.
That being said, most of the arrogant people that I’ve dealt with are Writers and Artists. Writers are especially arrogant. Either that or the ones I’ve been around are arrogant.
I don’t think arrogance is something only engineers are and I don’t think they’re any more arrogant than anyone else is.
When it comes to majors, it’s generally your best interest to major in what you’re good at and what you enjoy the most. I can’t fault people for doing that and it’s a waste of time to look down on them.
Bleah.
Every person I’ve been involved with since I was sixteen has been an engineer, an engineering student, an MIT student, or some kind of mad scientist with a construction fetish.
It’s a good thing I don’t try flirting. I’d never get anywhere.
I’d like to congradulate you. I’m not sure what for, but it seems someone who has dealt with that many engineers in a relationship capacity must have a lot of praise-worthy qualities.
(I’m bad with words…It’s really meant to sound nice and laudatory.)
So, how you doin’?
A misquote, and one for connoisseurs of cheap irony:
I am monarch of all I survey
My right there is none to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea
I am the lord of the fowl and the brute.
Oh, solitude! where are thy charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Then reign in this horrible place.
William Cowper, Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk
This literary nitpick brought to you by your friendly English Lit graduate and occasional Pit Lit Nitpicker. 
I’d say “patience and tolerance”, but my husband would laugh at me as soon as he catches up on this thread. 
Pffffttt…
Spend some time with project managers and THEN get back to me. Anyone who thinks they know the engineer’s job better than the engineer wins this contest.
(zoid, engineer AND project manager) 
Hah. This is true. I wouldn’t know you were flirting with me if you held up a sign. But hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. Nowadays, I look back on my University days and do this a lot: :smack:
:smack: :smack: :smack:
Being an engineer and having just finished (as in, about 90 minutes ago) a project management course, I have come to the conclusion that the day I am offered a promotion to management is the day I resign.