flch95:
IMHO, it depends on what the GPA is measuring and what the courses taken are and who the students holding the GPA are. I don't know how true this is but some schools use certain courses for grad work while others use the same courses for undergrad work.
If GPA measures how well one...
I graduated with a GPA of 2.8 last year while many of my friends and classmates (as far as I know) graduated with at least a 3.0 (and were employed by the time they graduated). I didn't have a job when I graduated and didn't land a job until 4 months later. Like you, I've had problems with the...
What was learned in college does not reflect what the real world is.
I was once told by a CEO of a company (the guy was really old and ran a pretty small but successful company) I was interviewing with (being just out of college myself) that I will only get to use 10% of my knowledge from...
to answer the original question posted by BitTwiddler:
Breed more Americans! =P China has the world's largest population, it's not surprising they can graduate more engineers than the US...China would spend all the money on their people as long as they are on the road to FAST improvement and...
i just recently graduated college w/ an engineering degree...the words/phrases/ideas/thoughts/concepts/whatnot used to describe an engineer in my generation are:
smart, "make lots of money", can endure all the toughest problems/circumstances/etc., smart, innovative, intelligent...
China is growing fast as we speak. Having lived there for 4 years there is always something new. The landscape of shanghai seem to be changing constantly - there is always a new building erected almost every month. China is actively recruiting overseas Chinese to help the country develop...
