If it makes you feel any better Bugsy most of my listed areas of expertise were being very generous to myself. "Expert" is not something I'd apply to any area of knowledge that I have. On very few of those topics could I sit down and write a paper without any reference material. But I could hold my own in a bar room discussion.
And man, I should not try to communicate before my morning tea.
aspro said:On very few of those topics could I sit down and write a paper without any reference material. But I could hold my own in a bar room discussion.
Never in my life had I seen someone write a paper without reference materials. Also in the scientific paper world we all stand on the shoulders of giants. Unless you mean non-scientific papers, but those are worthless.
aspro said:Yeah I am talking non-scientific. I had to do that for history classes back in college. You go in, they give you a few sheets of paper, a topic and 90 minutes.
That is an essay. Even in historic papers you need reference various sources. The more you have the more plausible you become.
An expert without references is an idiot, and quite often with references, is still an idiot, but that's beside the point.
Except in the case of the reference-less above post, obviously.
Yes, you can sit here crying about your past decision or you could man up and do something about it. Most of the difficult stuff in Engineering you already have mastered, you just have stuff like Control Theory that is hard. The rest is a lot easier and more fun. Since you are a all rounder do Mechanical Engineering, because it has the widest field of work.
There are two kinds of people on earth.
People that never got to be what they wanted to be...
and engineers.