Which is harder Medicine or Engineering

[ThatTruth777]

depends

 

[Leavingtheecstasy]

Computer Science is tough. They have to take as much math as engineers.

But, computer science doesn't have to touch shyt like thermodynamics (which most mech engs have to touch) or electromagnetics (which most electrical engs have to touch).

Imagine taking all that physics and math you learn in earlier courses and putting that shyt on steroids!

Yeah I dont know if I could do it tbh.

Im bad at math anyway lmfao

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

That's still vague because the concept of difficulty is relative.

Are you asking about difficulty in length? Difficulty in content? What disciplines? There are a lot of questions to answer here.

i guess in terms of content and ease of learning

Engineering >>>

Most pre-med students would flunk out of an engineering major.

The flashcard-driven, memorization approach to succeeding as a pre-med major doesn't work in engineering.

If you have a solid system to commit shyt to memory, you can get through pre-med and med school.

Engineering requires more fundamental understanding of concepts and then the ability to apply those concepts. It not about how hard you work or how much you commit to memory. You can know every equation in the book. But, if you lack fundamental understanding, you will still fail!

I'm pretty sure many engineering brehs on the board can tell stories of instances where they studied for weeks for a test, only for the professor to hit them with some shyt on the exam to test for understanding! All after the professor assured you that, if you study the notes and homework problems, it should be a piece of cake.

Study for two weeks to only get that 45/100 on an exam with the 45 being the high score in the class!

Professor handing back the graded exams like

Imagine going through that shyt for multiple courses per semester over the course of 4-5 years!

And that's just undergraduate engineering. Go for graduate engineering and the textbooks become even less helpful!

man i've been tryna tell my family this but they don't get it

 

[Dr. Acula]

the thing is you can go into a variety of fields. You can go into consulting, trading, banking and private equity for example. And if you a real one you can use what youve learned to create your own product and business more likely than a doctor can.

This is all true but requires more work and maneuvering to do this than a doctor who can walk out of their residency and land a 300k job easily. A new graduate from engineering isn't going to have the experience to have that type of hustle out of the gate. Not saying it can't happen down the road but most engineers are leaving school to work for a company before they realize "damn I can do this myself " or transition this to something more profitable.

A medical speciality is much more rewarding financially for more people than and engineering degree. Besides the same out the box opportunities are available in medicine too. Such as opening a private practice, consulting, or starting a private medical group.

 

[Clayton Endicott]

My physician said he had roommates that were engineering majors when he was going to school, and he said he didn't know how they could do that shyt without their brains melting.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Computer Science is tough. They have to take as much math as engineers.

But, computer science doesn't have to touch shyt like thermodynamics (which most mech engs have to touch) or electromagnetics (which most electrical engs have to touch).

Imagine taking all that physics and math you learn in earlier courses and putting that shyt on steroids!

emag oh god boi where do i start

got c- in emag 1 then an a+ in emag 2 don't ask me how, i still dont remember anything i learned

 

[Ohene]

This is all true but requires more work and maneuvering to do this than a doctor who can walk out of their residency and land a 300k job easily. A new graduate from engineering isn't going to have the experience to have that type of hustle out of the gate. Not saying it can't happen down the road but most engineers are leaving school to work for a company before they realize "damn I can do this myself " or transition this to something more profitable.

A medical speciality is much more rewarding financially for more people than and engineering degree. Besides the same out the box opportunities are available in medicine too. Such as opening a private practice, consulting, or starting a private medical group.

fair enough. thing is were comparing apples to oranges
in my opinion it is unfair to compare a doctor whos done 8 years of school to an P.Eng thats only done 4 years in school. if we talk in terms of opportunity costs...that 4 years of forgone salaries/bonuses + the money paid for med school is very large. I'm not even an engineer but to me its a wash. I get what youre saying though, doctors in the states are paid. Im Canadian

 

[Astroslik]

Quantitative finance..

 

[Dr. Acula]

If we're talking about classes we hate, my electrical and computer engineering brehs will empathize in saying fukk signals and systems.

I hate abstract math classes with a lot of theory. I'm horrible at that shyt. That is why I would never major in math. Calculus and differential equations where you solve stuff and get an answer ? I'm good. But when you want me to write proofs or think about mathematics any more creatively and in other stuff besides numbers I'm out.

 

[Ohene]

emag oh god boi where do i start

got c- in emag 1 then an a+ in emag 2 don't ask me how, i still dont remember anything i learned

avi?

 

[StrivingDaily]

As a engineering graduate I'd say Medicine

 

[How Sway?]

If we're talking about classes we hate, my electrical and computer engineering brehs will empathize in saying fukk signals and systems.

I hate abstract math classes with a lot of theory. I'm horrible at that shyt. That is why I would never major in math. Calculus and differential equations where you solve stuff and get an answer ? I'm good. But when you want me to write proofs or think about mathematics any more creatively and in other stuff besides numbers I'm out.

My minor was in applied math. I hated proofs so much that I withdrew from the class.

 

[Shang Tsung]

Medicine takes longer but engineering is harder imo. like the breh above said, you can't get by just memorizing formulas. The design problems will eat you alive

 

[Dr. Acula]

My minor was in applied math. I hated proofs so much that I withdrew from the class.

Damn fam. I want no parts of that.

Edit: I was just reading a thread topic on this and someone explained this type of math perfectly. It's like you're trying to construct an answer to be true out of thin air. You have nothing to reference like a specific process to say with certainty what you write is true. It takes confidence to be creative with math to feel like you're doing something "correctly". I think that is what I hate about it.

It's like "wtf am I'm trying to even say. ?"

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

If we're talking about classes we hate, my electrical and computer engineering brehs will empathize in saying fukk signals and systems.

I hate abstract math classes with a lot of theory. I'm horrible at that shyt. That is why I would never major in math. Calculus and differential equations where you solve stuff and get an answer ? I'm good. But when you want me to write proofs or think about mathematics any more creatively and in other stuff besides numbers I'm out.

i remember when my calc 2 prof took the piss at us and made solve all our answers using PROOFS oh man i was tight. told us not cheat sheets no nothing no calculators, no nothing surprised i escaped that class

avi?

some ig shawty ALEXA (@__v3nus) on Twitter

As a engineering graduate I'd say Medicine

you get your masters?