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I should have loved electrical engineering

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157 points tdhttt | 1 comments | 01 Sep 25 09:12 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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ryandrake ◴[04 Sep 25 10:57 UTC] No.45125823[source]▶
The EE component of my CSE degree felt like a math degree in disguise. Calculus, linear algebra, differential equations, discrete mathematics... It was a long time ago but I remember it as three years of math prerequisites and Maxwell’s equations and then finally we could learn what a MOSFET is. Absolutely terrible. I just want to learn how circuits work and how to build a guitar amp! But noooooo I need to learn how to solve partial differential equations, which I’ve done zero times in the field.
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1. raverbashing ◴[04 Sep 25 11:28 UTC] No.45126057[source]▶
100% this

And then circuit analysis is just a big exercise in building "castles in the sky" and worrying your upside down staircase has railings

(Among other several pet peeves about EE that I could go on about)