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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 7, 1988)
Page 2B/The Battalion/Wednesday, September 7, 1988 Battalion file photo Big welcome During the summer, workers from Stabler Sign land, Home of the 12th Man.” The sign is the class Co. in Bryan put up a sign — “Welcome to Aggie- gift from the Class of’88. Student apathy apalling | but you will get used toilj Four years ago, I entered Texas A&M to study engineering. I ex pected to be challenged by profes sors who would demand my best. I expected to be surrounded by ded icated students who would stimulate me to greater achievement. I thought college would develop my mind. Two semesters in college was enough to deliver me from this delu sion. At first, the apathy of students to ward acquiring knowledge appalled me. The Latin root for “student” means to be zealous for something, in this case for knowledge. Many Aggies were zealous only for partying and football games, and I hadn’t realized that these things were worthy of such dilignt study. I wondered why it was necessary to come to college to study them. I discovered it was necessary to come to get an education. Actually, the education itself doesn’t matter as long as students ac quire a piece of paper that says they have an education. This is what magically opens the door to what they really want: ajob. Even though most jobs don’t really require a college education, everyone still expects you to have that little peice of paper that says you have an education. If you don’t, they won’t hire you. I was not so enlightened when 1 began by study of the mysteries of engineering. I thought I would have to work hard. But soon I found that engineering hardly merits its reputation for aca demic rigor. The curriculum includes basic math and science courses whose the oretical content is greatly diluted. Because engineering is supposed to be practical, studying theory is discouraged. Heaven help the professor who dares require that his students derive a formula or understand the theory behind it. All that is truly necessary is to learn how to plug those numbers into the proper sequence of formu las in order to arrive at the correct answer. For those who can’t handle this. there is always a handy« manual to lean on. Besides, the professorofe dizes the incompetence by the wretched test scores ui spectability. I thought that engineersti displayed a disdain for tht use of the English Language. Again and again 1 abuse it and then excuse the saying, “I’m an engineer supposed to use good Englis! This is the result of train, leaves them almost wholly of any subject other tw,| neering. Why should they learnEi they won’t need it on the dally failed to appreciates.! port ant considerations. T hese attitudes and nai riculum encouraged inetoi liberal arts after my sc year. As much as engineerin;| ested me, I could not m tbought of being a nj All See Apathy, Durin demo! 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