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Thomas L. Member Level: eHRPD

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This isn't you is it?  Just joshin' ya.

 

Holy smokes, I have to commend that individual on having the guts to ask that question and claim they're an engineer... or maybe they are an engineer, a really really bad engineer. Or maybe it was a joke? "I would gain distance (like 22 miles)" lmao. 

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Thomas L. Member Level: eHRPD

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my cousin asked me and i was sure.

 

so wifi uses 2.5 ghz, and sprint is using 2.5 ghz for lte. What keeps it from causing interference from another. or causing congestion 

 

To give a short answer, Wifi actually uses unlicensed 2.4ghz spectrum, which anything from Bluetooth to microwaves also use. Sprints spectrum is 2.5ghz and is licensed (to Sprint), meaning only Sprint can broadcast on it.

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WiWavelength Member Level: LTE Advanced

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Holy smokes, I have to commend that individual on having the guts to ask that question and claim they're an engineer... or maybe they are an engineer, a really really bad engineer. Or maybe it was a joke? "I would gain distance (like 22 miles)" lmao. 

 

I would not be surprised if the person really is an "engineer."  Increasingly, titles and labels are worth little credence.

 

In my day job in continuing ed, I routinely see people of marginal competence trudging through college or even aspiring to grad school, not really caring about learning, just focused on getting the degree, as if it were some sort of job certificate.  I hope that those people pick up some higher learning and critical thinking -- if only via forced osmosis -- along the way.  I do what little I can to instill those values.  But many in our society probably would be better served by a stronger system of vocational education, not college education.

 

In this country, learning for the sake of learning is virtually dead.  And that is sad.

 

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I would not be surprised if the person really is an "engineer."  Increasingly, titles and labels are worth little credence.

 

In my day job in continuing ed, I routinely see people of marginal competence trudging through college or even aspiring to grad school, not really caring about learning, just focused on getting the degree, as if it were some sort of job certificate.  I hope that those people pick up some higher learning and critical thinking -- if only via forced osmosis -- along the way.  I do what little I can to instill those values.  But many in our society probably would be better served by a stronger system of vocational education, not college education.

 

In this country, learning for the sake of learning is virtually dead.  And that is sad.

 

AJ

Business says that learning for the sake of learning is dead.  Business has taken over education and made it more of a churn and done environment.  I know because my chance for research at my soon to be alma mater just destroyed the graduate department for my major. 

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Meh, some schools are better at turning out competent problem-solvers who can produce reasonably good work on a reasonably good schedule (and this apparently pleasantly surprises their employers).

 

And yes, as a relatively recent grad who could give a list of names of people who I would actually want to work with from the ranks of those who I had classes with, I might be biased in this.

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Meh, some schools are better at turning out competent problem-solvers who can produce reasonably good work on a reasonably good schedule (and this apparently pleasantly surprises their employers).

 

Is this is a plug for Colorado School of Mines, the alma mater?

 

;)

 

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Is this is a plug for Colorado School of Mines, the alma mater?

 

;)

 

AJ

 

Something like that.

 

I will say that some departments send out grads with skill sets quite attuned to the industries they're going into (Petroleum, Geological, Mining, ChemE, EE, MechE), potentially at the expense of learning for its own sake. But there are majors who are somehow really enthused about the whole learning bit (ahem, Engineering Physics) as a whole, and there are of course examples of those types across the board. Folks too far out of that vein, or who aren't cut out for the particular fields that Mines caters to, tend to wash out to other schools in a year or two.

 

I will say this though...it ain't a degree mill.

 

EDIT: Personally, I could be doing exactly what I'm doing now, except not nearly as well, without the time I spent at Mines. I was there to learn how to solve problems better, though at times coursework was such that I didn't feel like I was heading toward that goal. So my goals going in color my perception of my experience significantly.

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I will say this though...it ain't a degree mill.

 

I have great respect for Colorado School of Mines, among many other science and engineering schools (e.g. MIT, Caltech, Rensselaer, Harvey Mudd, Missouri S&T, etc.).

 

The large state research universities are the ones that draw my greatest concern.  In many ways, those schools function like massive liberal arts colleges, but so many students are not interested in liberal arts.  They want nothing more than job skills that could be better delivered in community colleges and vocational-technical schools.

 

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I have great respect for Colorado School of Mines, among many other science and engineering schools (e.g. MIT, Caltech, Rensselaer, Harvey Mudd, Missouri S&T, etc.).

 

The large state research universities are the ones that draw my greatest concern.  In many ways, those schools function like massive liberal arts colleges, but so many students are not interested in liberal arts.  They want nothing more than job skills that could be better delivered in community colleges and vocational-technical schools.

 

AJ

 

Agreed on that. The question is whether "the system" is okay with would-be students realizing this, and electing to do something useful in two years rather than racking up debt and pressing pause on the grow-up button for four(ish) years. Without getting too political, I've heard the current administration mouth words in favor of community colleges et al, but not quite as the potentially disruptive force to "mainstream education" that they could be.

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I have a buddy who's Dad teaches at Mines. He's a Geologist. A Geologist in the Colorado School of Mines. Shocking, I know.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 using Tapatalk

 

 

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I have a buddy who's Dad teaches at Mines. He's a Geologist. A Geologist in the Colorado School of Mines. Shocking, I know.

 

Robert via Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 using Tapatalk

 

Last name? If I don't know him, I'm sure a friend or two of mine would.

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Last name? If I don't know him, I'm sure a friend or two of mine would.

 

Jerry Higgins.  He is my friend Scott's Dad.

 

Robert

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