[HPforGrownups] College

[Sheryll Townsend]

No: HPFGUIDX 5140


--- DrMM <drmm at fuuko.com> wrote:
> The college student responds to the U.S. college
> system questions. . . .
> 
> Another example is my father.  He's an engineer. 
> He's told me upon 
> occasion that many of his classmates became
> engineers so they wouldn't have 
> to take many English classes.  Then he laughs and
> says,"But I write more as 
> an engineer than I ever did when I was in school." 
> The point being that 
> you can never know what skills you need when you get
> into the real world.
> 
I really had to chuckle at that one. I used to work as
an office manager at an engineering consulting company
and none of the engineers there had very good writing
skills. At one point the President made them all take
writing courses, and none of them could understand
why. At least the President recognized his lack of
skills and always had one of us check everything he
wrote. I once refused to send a fax for one of the
engineers - it had 17 mistakes on 2 pages of text (he
even started 5 paragraphs on the second page with the
words "And so, therefore.."!). He didn't see what was
wrong with what he had written. When I asked on of the
other engineers, he said they didn't have to take
English (Communication) as one of their courses. So
much for the wonderful Canadian education system.

Sheryll

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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."

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