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kleinbl00  ·  2486 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: July 19, 2017

Success in engineering school is all about reading engineering problems. Success in engineering is all about writing engineering problems. I had a real inferiority complex in engineering school because everyone was always better than me... then we got to capstone design and these mutherfuckers didn't know how a doorknob worked. And, once shown, they couldn't take it apart, put it back together or repair it, let alone draw it or modify it.

Sometimes you can get the unimaginative to grasp the issues of the boundless story problem by getting them to find the bounds. Iteration is a matter of understanding that the solution of the problem is the conditions of the next problem until you no longer care about the outcome.

Sometimes.