Those of you know know me, or somehow otherwise follow this blog, probably know that I’m a teaching assistant this semester. It’s for a mandatory first year engineering class. Fifteen other TAs and myself basically are graders and helpers for all the 500+ students in this Excel and MATHCAD based computer class. I asked the professor today how many of the kids actually tend to graduate in engineering. At Clemson of course, only about 1/3 of freshman engineering students end up with an engineering degree. His response, to my surprise, is that almost all of them will stay in engineering, and that due to transfers, more engineers graduate every year than they accept as first year students.
I have also realized that I’m getting old. My receding hairline and I don’t like that.
