Prompt 10: Recognizing Truth

By Joao Martins

The QS Top Universities website, which ranks Universities throughout the world, posted a video that is titled "5 Signs You're an Engineering Student". The signs that are described in the video include knowing everything there is to know about bridges, thinking Legos are the best toys ever, always trying to fix things that are broken, and having been to two lectures before your friends are even awake.
Many of the things described are not representative assumptions of engineering in general. For example, only a few fields of engineering require complete knowledge of bridges, and thinking legos are the best toys ever is a personal opinion which can be shared by students of other majors too. Always trying to fix everything is also not representative because there are some engineering students that just want their degree because of the potential for making a great amount of money int the future. These students are not interested in fixing things because they are not passionate about the field in general, while at the same time, people can enjoy fixing things but pursue a different, unrelated major. The part about having lectures before your friends are even awake is also false. As an engineering student myself, I know for a fact that many of my friends that are not engineers wake up much earlier than I do.
This video being titled "5 Signs You're an Engineering Student" is a misinterpretation of the engineering field because after watching, the viewer (who can be inexperienced with the engineering fields) expects this to be true for every engineer student, when in many cases it is not.

Source:
https://www.topuniversities.com/student-info/videos/5-signs-youre-engineering-student