Recent content by ddrum2000

northwesternWell this changes my view on my future college career. I'd love to enter engineering, but I'd hate to graduate into a halting field while worrying about my personal debt.I am in huge agreement with dgingeri. This country is too lazy as the last two generations, including mine have...

Grael4Interesting, and just as I am preparing to enroll to get my BS in Mechanical Engineering, I'm still going to do it though, despite these statistics. I have a passion for science, and inventing, and I have ideas for many different machines I feel could be of real use to the world. If it...

My experience tells me no. I work in academia and many of the engineering/science students are attracted to the profession by the good salary but aren't willing to do the work. This is one of the many reasons that many/most engineering schools only graduate ~50% of their incoming freshman...