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re: Which is harder? Engineering, Med School, or Law School
Posted on 3/22/17 at 6:23 pm to philly444
Posted on 3/22/17 at 6:23 pm to philly444
It aslo depends if you are talking about "just getting by" versus finishing near the top of the class. Yes, I know some claim they didn't study and just magically knew it all.
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Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:14 pm to tigerskin
As a EE and knowing a veteneriarian. Vet school is the hardest.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 8:55 pm to tigerskin
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It aslo depends if you are talking about "just getting by" versus finishing near the top of the class. Yes, I know some claim they didn't study and just magically knew it all.
It's called GENIUS. I'm not a member of the club, you either get it, or you don't.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 9:38 pm to RedlandsTiger
As a physician I can only speak to medical school. As others have said it's less the complexity of the material (many early subjects you likely covered in undergrad, like anatomy and biochemistry, but it's much more in depth in med school) but rather the sheer volume. When I picked up my syllabus and content for my first exam I thought it was a hazing joke - literally a ream and a half of PowerPoint slides to study, for one exam. And that's for two years straight. Clinicals suck because there are still exams but in the meantime you're pulling scut duty on services.
Residency is an entirely different beast. Less didactically but instead you work 80 hours a week and still have to find study time.
But with all that said, I can't imagine sitting in an engineering class with all that math.
Residency is an entirely different beast. Less didactically but instead you work 80 hours a week and still have to find study time.
But with all that said, I can't imagine sitting in an engineering class with all that math.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 9:53 pm to philly444
I'd say as a whole med school. I have several friends that dropped/flunked out of engineering that are pretty good lawyers now. 
Some people just can't handle the math.
Some people just can't handle the math.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:17 pm to UltimaParadox
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Vet
The only real doctors, I'm told.
They have a dog in room 1, snake in room 2, a cat in room 3 and a horse out back.
MD's just treat one species.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:20 pm to philly444
For a straight white male the answer is a tie between women and gender "studies" and afro american "studies"
Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:27 pm to philly444
Med school and engineering are doable for just about anyone with an IQ over 105. Law school lower.
Posted on 3/22/17 at 10:34 pm to LSUminati
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However, I was in a class once where a teacher had to explain to the class (a portion) the concept of compound interest/present value.
You mean, like when all those rich PE guys make all that money chasing soulless deals?
And to what end? (Applies for Big Law)
Posted on 3/23/17 at 3:07 am to LSUTANGERINE
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Med school and engineering are doable for just about anyone with an IQ over 105. Law school lower.
I take it you know this from having done both of these?
Medical school is more about studying efficiently and finding ways to memorize absurd amounts of information. That said, if you get to medical school you are probably pretty intelligent.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 3:22 am to philly444
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Posted on 3/23/17 at 5:47 am to philly444
First year at Georgia Tech was 10x harder than anything I saw in law school.
Most people in my law school class were blown away by amount of reading/work in first semester. It was nothing compared to trying to survive calculus and computer science at the same time.
Most people in my law school class were blown away by amount of reading/work in first semester. It was nothing compared to trying to survive calculus and computer science at the same time.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 6:57 am to philly444
I've got a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and date someone in the medical profession and the sheer amount of hours she has to dedicate to her craft surpasses me even with all my research. shite is no joke, but it's very different.
I find my work involves a lot of problem solving and hers involves a lot of recollection and piecing together of a puzzle when you often don't have all the pieces.
This type of question isn't really possible to answer. Getting a graduate engineering degree would be easier than med school for a lot of people but a lot of my SO's friends excel in the med field and would likely struggle a bit more with a lot of what I do. We are talking about some very high functioning people though, so these kinds of comparisons of "who is better" are kind of pointless.
I find my work involves a lot of problem solving and hers involves a lot of recollection and piecing together of a puzzle when you often don't have all the pieces.
This type of question isn't really possible to answer. Getting a graduate engineering degree would be easier than med school for a lot of people but a lot of my SO's friends excel in the med field and would likely struggle a bit more with a lot of what I do. We are talking about some very high functioning people though, so these kinds of comparisons of "who is better" are kind of pointless.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 7:00 am to philly444
Med school hands down.
Getting an Engineering degree from MIT or elite school is NOT the same as any LSU school.....
Getting an Engineering degree from MIT or elite school is NOT the same as any LSU school.....
Posted on 3/23/17 at 7:05 am to CharlesLSU
Agreed, competition is what sets the difficulty. The hardest scholastic endeavor is a basic science PhD in something mindfrick like physical chemistry or condensed matter physics. shite that literally almost no one could figure out.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 7:56 am to philly444
I swear, engineering majors act like no one else takes a hard class. Engineering is the easiest of those 3. It's an undergrad degree for fricks sake.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 8:11 am to Dixie Normus
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I swear, engineering majors act like no one else takes a hard class. Engineering is the easiest of those 3. It's an undergrad degree for fricks sake.
Did you even read the thread? Because it doesn't seem like you did.
Posted on 3/23/17 at 8:11 am to philly444
Undergrad Engineering isn't the hardest.
In terms of "hard" i would imagine a PHD in applied mathematics of physics would be the "hardest" degree to get for most people. Abstract theorems and ideas which don't have an algorithm for an answer.
I took two grad school level math classes as an undergrad (we had a mix of grad students and then like 5-10 undergrad students in the classes as electives) and was sort of just passed in one of them because I tried somewhat hard but the work was just insane and I hadn't realized what I was getting in to.
The hardest one was called "asymptotic expansions and perturbation techniques" and they combined stuff I learned in Diff EQ 2, Fourier Series and Complex analysis as the stepping blocks "algebra" would be when you took calculus.
The chapter would be called something like "solve the duffing equation using (some set conditions) and you would end up with an integral that was technically "impossible to solve" based on the classes we had taken up to that point. But if you look at a closed circle in the complex plane (complex analysis course info) you could find a solution to the other parts of that closed loop using Fourier Series info, Diff Eq 2 info or some other upper level course and find the actual answer because the integral over the real plane portion had to be equal to the negative of the integral over the imaginary / complex portion due to some theorem.
^ that was one chapter / problem, then we got into something called "solve the boundary layer problem" using some sort of order of magnitude approximations summed together for the two sides of the boundary layer and then solve for some constant so you can combine the two to a single solution over the whole system. Didn't really ever quite understand what the frick was going on but I had made good friends with a grad school asian girl that I worked with that helped me pass.
- the fricked up thing is I still want to go back and pursue a masters / potentially a phd because even though I know it will be a total bitch I think I can do it.
In terms of "hard" i would imagine a PHD in applied mathematics of physics would be the "hardest" degree to get for most people. Abstract theorems and ideas which don't have an algorithm for an answer.
I took two grad school level math classes as an undergrad (we had a mix of grad students and then like 5-10 undergrad students in the classes as electives) and was sort of just passed in one of them because I tried somewhat hard but the work was just insane and I hadn't realized what I was getting in to.
The hardest one was called "asymptotic expansions and perturbation techniques" and they combined stuff I learned in Diff EQ 2, Fourier Series and Complex analysis as the stepping blocks "algebra" would be when you took calculus.
The chapter would be called something like "solve the duffing equation using (some set conditions) and you would end up with an integral that was technically "impossible to solve" based on the classes we had taken up to that point. But if you look at a closed circle in the complex plane (complex analysis course info) you could find a solution to the other parts of that closed loop using Fourier Series info, Diff Eq 2 info or some other upper level course and find the actual answer because the integral over the real plane portion had to be equal to the negative of the integral over the imaginary / complex portion due to some theorem.
^ that was one chapter / problem, then we got into something called "solve the boundary layer problem" using some sort of order of magnitude approximations summed together for the two sides of the boundary layer and then solve for some constant so you can combine the two to a single solution over the whole system. Didn't really ever quite understand what the frick was going on but I had made good friends with a grad school asian girl that I worked with that helped me pass.
- the fricked up thing is I still want to go back and pursue a masters / potentially a phd because even though I know it will be a total bitch I think I can do it.
This post was edited on 3/23/17 at 8:25 am
Posted on 3/23/17 at 8:31 am to UltimaParadox
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As a EE and knowing a veteneriarian. Vet school is the hardest.
I agree with you. Smartest people I know, clinically, is a vet. They could treat multiple species, and they know multiple anatomies.
VET School is also 10x harder to get into just because there are fewer. Don't tell this to doctors though
One thing vets don't have to deal with is insurance companies and human emotions and psychology, which probably make practicing medicine harder overall. But from a clinical perspective, and clinical medicine view, vets are awesome. They lead many of our great basic science research projects
Posted on 3/23/17 at 8:34 am to cwil177
Does smoking of the pots make it easier?
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