I don't know about communicate effectively, a large group of us have developed essentially our own lingo. We communicate effectively among ourselves, which, as a profession, is about all we want to do. It's a matter of approach, we use the language shorn of as much ambiguity as possible, however that makes it both terse and technical.
I'm going to argue the point. There are a lot of people, perhaps not a majority but a sizeable minority, who change their paths in college. It's just that they discover that what they thought they wanted to do is not actually what they wanted to do. Since college is where most people first experience what a profession really does, it should be a place where you can jump tracks. I think that starting out basically saying that you can jump tracks into S&E, even though you can jump out, is a bad way to run a system like that.
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Date: 2005-10-01 05:06 pm (UTC)I'm going to argue the point. There are a lot of people, perhaps not a majority but a sizeable minority, who change their paths in college. It's just that they discover that what they thought they wanted to do is not actually what they wanted to do. Since college is where most people first experience what a profession really does, it should be a place where you can jump tracks. I think that starting out basically saying that you can jump tracks into S&E, even though you can jump out, is a bad way to run a system like that.