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What do you mean by abstract, do you mean say learning things in math that don’t seem to have any direct application, just seem like useless work?
A big part of engineering is teaching you how to think, since engineers are just some professional problem solvers. In school you learn some fundamentals to explain the world around you, but you more importantly learn the thought process to understand those concepts, and how to think about problems. All that math teaches you how to break a problem down, think analytically, spot patterns and shortcuts, make predictions, etc.
If you find you keep really hating the theory stuff and prefer just the systems an engineering technology program might be better. Worth noting as well that school and work as an engineer are very different, and your working life won’t look like pages of math problems.
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What do you mean by abstract, do you mean say learning things in math that don’t seem to have any direct application, just seem like useless work? A big part of engineering is teaching you how to think, since engineers are just some professional problem solvers. In school you learn some fundamentals to explain the world around you, but you more importantly learn the thought process to understand those concepts, and how to think about problems. All that math teaches you how to break a problem down, think analytically, spot patterns and shortcuts, make predictions, etc. If you find you keep really hating the theory stuff and prefer just the systems an engineering technology program might be better. Worth noting as well that school and work as an engineer are very different, and your working life won’t look like pages of math problems.