> I find it hard to believe any student would embark on a career path
> through a university in electronics, engineering or otherwise, without
> already knowing how to solder
>
> I was a Film major , you can bet I knew which end of the camera the lens
> mounted to long before Jr. High school
>
> people tend to persue thier interests
> and if your interest has anything to do with electronics you teach
> yourself soldering at about 8 years old
>
> I seriously doubt anyone would get through a EE program without hands on
> time with circut design and construction, including soldering.
> but it does seem at least one person got through som type of formal
> schooling in electronics without knowing what a FILTER is and isn't
> just more of arnii bull****
>
George, you gotta remember that the days of boys building ham radios with
their dads on weekends have been gone for a long time. What you write used
to be true, but no longer. LOTs of kids go into engineering programs with
very little soldering or any other experience these days, for lots of
reasons. Blame Nintendo, and blame high schools for killing off
electronics
programs to start Cisco Networking Academies and "tech ed" programs. Blame
Heathkit for killing off their kits. Whatever.
Also, from an engineering perspective, *everything* is a filter of some
sort. You cannot measure anything without changing it in some way.
Everything filters someting, it just depends on how many approximations
you
care to consider and how you consider transducers. There's a helluva a lot
of gray-area on that.
But as to college students, here's a list of things about students
entering
college in 2002:
1.. Most of this year's students entering college were born in 1981.
2.. They are the first generation to be born into Luvs, Huggies, and
Pampers.
3.. John Lennon and John Belu**** have always been dead.
4.. There has always been a woman on the Supreme Court, and women have
always been traveling into space.
5.. They have never needed a prescription to buy ibuprofen.
6.. They never realized that for one brief moment, Gen. Alexander Haig
was
"in charge."
7.. They never heard Walter Cronkite suggest that "That's the way it
is."
8.. They were born and grew up with Microsoft, IBM PCs, in-line skates,
NutraSweet, fax machines, film on disks, and unregulated quantities of
commercial interruptions on television.
9.. Somebody named Dole has always been running for something.
10.. Cats has been on Broadway all their lives.
11.. While they all know her children, they have no idea who "Ma Bell"
was.
12.. They never heard anyone say, "Book 'em, Dano," "Good night,
John-boy," or "Kiss my grits," in prime time.
13.. They never knew Madonna when she was like a virgin.
14.. Mike Myers is the Spy Who Shagged Me not the first congressman
expelled from that body in a century for his role in "Abscam."
15.. They have never had to worry about the packaging of Tylenol.
16.. Yugoslavia has never existed.
17.. They have never seen Bob Marley perform reggae live.
18.. Jesse Jackson has always been getting someone out of trouble
someplace.
19.. Strikes by highly paid athletes have been a routine part of
professional athletics.
20.. The moonwalk is a Michael Jackson dance step, not a Neil Armstrong
giant step.
21.. John Cougar has always been John Cougar Mellencamp, or vice versa.
22.. Travel to space has always been accomplished in reusable
spacecraft.
23.. The term "adult" has increasingly come to mean "dirty."
24.. The year they were born, re****ts condemned violence on television
and
in Hollywood films for producing the likes of John Hinckley.
25.. They have always been able to get their news from USA Today and
CNN.
26.. They have spent more than half their lives with Bart Simpson.
27.. They don't understand why Solidarity is spelled with a capital "S."
28.. They don't think there is anything terribly futuristic about 2001,
and were never concerned about the year 1984.
29.. They have no idea how big a breadbox is.
30.. Camelot refers to King Arthur's seat of government, not John
Kennedy's.
31.. President Kennedy's assassination is as significant to them as that
of Lincoln or Garfield.
32.. They have probably never dialed a phone or opened an icebox.
33.. The only thing a "churchkey" has ever opened for them is a church.
34.. They have never seen white smoke over the Vatican and do not know
its
significance.
35.. They cannot identify the last United States President to throw-up
on
a Japanese prime minister.
36.. Ketchup has always been a vegetable.
37.. Susan B. Anthony has always been on the dollar but probably never
bought them anything.
38.. They cannot imagine waiting a generation to get the dirt on the
U.S.
President.
39.. They felt pretty special when their elementary school had
top-of-the-line Commodore 64s.
40.. ET, Gremlins, and The Hulk provided their Halloween costumes and
lunch box themes.
41.. They were introduced to Kramer on the TV show Friday's.
42.. They remember when Saturday Night Live was still funny.
43.. They have never seen a BankAmericard.
From: http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/
-John O
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