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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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TrackerFF ◴[04 Sep 25 10:12 UTC] No.45125557[source]▶
When I studied electrical engineering, I'd say that a good half of our class were your typical "DIY" tinkering guys, which had been a hobby for quite some time. For some, like me, it was audio equipment. Guitar amplifiers, effects pedals, and all that. For others it was robotics. Other again enjoyed building their own DIY home automation systems. Or fitting mechanical systems with sensors and such, ham radio, whatever.

But, yes, probably half of my classes were a real drag to get through. It all depended on who the lecturer was, and how enthusiastic they were.

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1. b33j0r ◴[04 Sep 25 19:28 UTC] No.45131281[source]▶
I love this perspective. I wanted to be Tom Scholz from Boston (though he was an ME, and that was my dad’s music).

My junior project in EE was a guitar fx pedal with a shielded breadboard on top. I won’t be bashful, that was the most popular project in the room.

Then… I got divorced and never finished my EE degree. I already had a degree in CS, and had pursued a second degree because I thought software was too limiting. Now, here I am, all limited.

The reason I never subsequently finished my degree was that I didn’t really want to work on CMOS nor transmission lines or microwave, and graduating with an ECE degree from U of Utah offered those as your career paths.