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ambicapter
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Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
What distinguished “paper” engineering from “real”?
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fm2606
5 days ago
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Yeah, fair question. To me "real" is crunching numbers, doing experiments, figuring stuff out, along the lines of what I did in my core college classes.
"Paper" is pushing paper, almost in the literal sense. It was just boring for me.
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