mhardy6647
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... and not without reasonLet’s cheer up, folks. People have been complaining about the decline of the world since Aristotle.
... and not without reasonLet’s cheer up, folks. People have been complaining about the decline of the world since Aristotle.
Good for the children! Never blindly accept everything 'authority' throws your way. And true respect is earned by deserving it, not because someone didn't get knocked off by the plague in there 20s. And as a parent, I am not upset when my son contradicts me (which is 99.9% of the time) as long as he has good reasoning (which is 10% of the time ). On the flip side, you can get punished by 'authority' so you have to not be a total dumbass about how you show your contempt.“The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.”
Our university is just starting up an EE department. It should be interesting to see how that ends up being structured.
FWIW, my boss (the dean of the engineering college) is female. And very much NOT a "diversity" hire- she is absolutely awesome. Ditto for our section of the materials engineering department, where we have four tenured or tenure track professors, two of whom are female and quite brilliant. The students I work with are really well-grounded psychologically as well as being smart as whips. I am highly optimistic about engineering's future.
Maybe. No promises but if it can be done, I’ll also reap the benefits.Selfishly, does that mean there's a window for micro donuts?
"Dress for success."Heck, at some point someone decided it would be nice if men wore dress suits all the time -- even construction and factory workers. Some people went along with it, and I eventually became pretty standard/ expected. It took 100+ years to break that one back down in the US. Thankfully many smart people knew that how you dress is not a reflection of how smart you are, or who good of a worker you are, and were in critical enough positions to give the finger to those still pressing the old standards.
I’ll also reap the benefits