And that’s why I was worried. PDEng represented a different aspect of the program than what I was considering. My decision was largely motivated by my own interests in the field of computer science and mathematics and the fact that software engineering was not where they lay. Another part of my concern was the manner in which engineering has set itself up and the way that it is contrasted to the math way of doing things, which I much prefer.

PDEng was simply brought up as an example of the engineering way. That’s all. Devoting such a large portion of my post to PDEng was probably a mistake in this sense, and I should have separated the problems of PDEng into its own post like this one.

Of course, this is not even considering the sheer stupidity one would have to be steeped in to leave software engineering because of PDEng. Let’s look at this carefully now. Essentially, if someone leaves software engineering to go to computer science because of PDEng, they are an enormous retard.

I wasn’t a stranger to many things about first year engineering at Waterloo. I knew about the murderous PHYS 115 midterm. And I knew about PDEng. I was completely expecting the thing to be awful and it shattered my expectations and was absolutely 10/10 A+++ horrid. But seriously, if you’re hard set on becoming an engineer, PDEng should not deter you from doing so. If I really wanted to become a software engineer, I’d just suck it up and bitch about it like everyone else is doing. It really isn’t worth leaving over.

And it really isn’t worth leaving over when the brain surgeons over at CECS decide to spawn more of their hellish program over the rest of the coop program. Yes, I knew about WatPD too. I don’t just jump from program to program all willy-nilly. I do my goddamn research and know what the hell I’m getting myself into. So, I’d have to be an illiterate monkey if I were switching to CS over PDEng, because I’d be right back where the hell I started: having to take another retarded professionalism course over coop.

In conclusion, no, I did not leave engineering because of PDEng. As I’ve mentioned, I’d have to be a gigantic retard to have done so. Does this mean PDEng isn’t bad? Oh hells no. PDEng is still a gigantic pile of fecal matter and it appears that it’s not going to change very quickly. And now we have five more piles to deal with.