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Originally Posted by Recon604
all this talk about BCIT makes me feel a lot comfortable with my choice than going to UBC or SFU.
I feel nowadays universities are getting overrated and BCIT is being more comparable as they provide hands-on work. I know a couple of Eng. students from UBC and they dont have the confidence of installing LEDs into their car... or even hooking up wires.
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I'll never forget the head of the Tech program (who is an Eng) telling us about when he was doing one of those interview things they do with Eng grads, this E.Eng student comes in and is brilliant, but then one of the interviewers pulls out a resistor and asks the kid what it is (for you non-electrical people, that's the most basic electrical component there is), and the kid has absolutely no clue what it is because Engineers never touch anything.
I took an Electronic Engineering Technologist diploma program (2 years) then did a bridge program (summer of hell) which let me jump into 3rd year Electrical Engineering (which I hated and dropped out of). The reason I dropped out of Engineering is because there is ZERO hands on, the closest was taking measurements of a pre-built circuit in a lab every once in a while. I'm so glad I did the diploma then bridge because I still had my diploma when I dropped out of Eng, a bunch of my friends went into Eng but because the first two years are common they didn't find out that they actually hated their specialty (Mech, Elec, Civ) until partway through third year, at which point they're too far in to quit but they hate what they're doing.