Original Podcast Transcript
All right, kids. The harsh reality of getting a mechanical engineering degree. Last I uh last I looked on that like a decade ago, it was classified as the least likely degree for people to get if they attempt it. Not the hardest degree. It you got to choose the words correctly. The hardest degree is considered by most to be a mathematic mathematics degree like like I have like a pure math which I’m not saying that to make myself sound smarter. That was the only degree I could do. I I I could do that or physics and engineering. I these are the only things I could do. So when people say things like a math degree is the hardest degree to get. I’m like, uh, you know, staying married and having kids, working a full-time job, taking care of your health, your physical health, that’s a hell of a lot harder than getting a degree in math. But for most people, that comes easy. For me, that’s like I have a hard enough time just taking care of a little dog. I mean, it’s not hard, but it’s like the stress factors involved with having something just latched on to you just and you’ll never leave. Like I know how my parents feel, you know, like it doesn’t matter how responsible you are, you’re always going to have to rely on family and disasters like the pandemic and things happen. And that’s the time where it’s hard it’s hard for everybody when you have to depend on a family member for something like financial support or something. Espe especially when you when you’re you’re young and you’re trying to be confident and and uh be successful and then you have to face the facts that you need assistance sometimes. You know, I’m 40. I’m 41. I had everything set up perfectly pre- pandemic. I mean, I worked my butt off, got educated, got had no debt, no car payment, just bought this condo. Everything was fantastic. And then the pandemic came and within about six months to a year, everything was wiped out. Everything. It was crazy. The pandemic was nuts and I I was I was told, “Hey, we’re going to give you we’re going to compensate your businesses.” And I never got compensated and uh it’s just been a nightmare. So hopefully hopefully this nightmare is coming to an end, this financial pandemic nightmare. But this is these things are these are realities like you’re like, “What does this have to do with my mechanical engineering degree?” Everything. It cost a lot of money to go to school for engineering. You’re you’re given a free ride one way or another in America for the most part. America doesn’t America is an interesting beast because you’ll get a free ride with everything. You’ll get free health insurance, you get free food, you get a free education. All you have to do is fill out an application. But if you come from money, then you don’t get that. And you have to depend on your parents to give you what the government will give poor people. People that don’t have money can go to college. They can have a good life. It’s hard work. It might not be as luxurious as your guys’ life, but they still get the same opportunities. It’s an equal opportunity country. Even though we are all about taking advantage of each other, taking everything from each other, hoarding and collecting.
So the your mechanical engineering degree though the hard truth about this is like so like first let’s look at Berkeley has like a 92% success rate or something and then like a lot of higher uh colleges like that they have that success rate because they they know an algorithm that they don’t let in people that are likely to fail. That’s why it’s got a high success rate. The other colleges have the same algorithm, but they still let people in that are highly likely to fail and they know it and they could say, “Hey, look, odds are you’re not going to pass. This is a waste of money. You should choose a different degree, but they need the money. They need to fill the seats and you want to have the opportunity to at least try.” So, there’s fairness in that sense. But the harsh reality, my dear boy, is that you are diving. I just had a comment from a kid on on the Instagram channel and he um he was like, man, he’s like he was trying to look at my my websites, but they’re blocked by his university because he’s at the university. He has to use their Wi-Fi and the universities, they block everything that’s not accredited. And and some of you guys like you don’t believe me when I tell you that using Khan Academy is plagiarism. That pirating stuff is a felony. Some universities will block the internet so that you can’t do that. It forces you to follow the code of conduct and syllabus despite your best efforts not to. It forces you to do that. And and that that’s it’s and for you guys I when I was studying the stuff too, I also felt like you guys with with um with modern learning. Going to the internet’s modern learning. It’s not. It’s a scam. It’s not. You are not modern learning. The That’s why I I I deleted all my old channels, all this old stuff, all these videos to restructure this whole message for you kids that are destroying your education. When you when you take a course, you have chosen to study the textbook. You’re literally given this book and you’re going to spend 16 weeks studying that book. You guys are like, I’m going to college to sign up to study this book in this course and study this book and this course. And each of these books were hand selected to link with my next courses. So, I must know this book to go to the next book. And the information being chosen by the professors is interactive. They’re link they’re linking this stuff up on purpose to follow you to send you down a path. and you’re like, I should go to a dot website. I should go to an unacredited social media platform and watch people draw and hopefully it matches my homework and I can line it up and get the correct answer in a box on an online homework and then memorize the solution and copy it down in class.
And so those of you who do that that are mechanical engineers, it’s going to be bye-bye junior year. And and I’m not saying that to insult you. I’m trying to wake you up before it’s too late. I wrote that book to help you. I know you guys are behind. I know you missing everything. There’s like 800 pages in that or well, it depends on which one you get. The it’s everything you need to know by junior year to be ready for junior year. The mechanical engineering degree is a mathematical degree rooted in physics. Or is it a physics degree based on math? Engineering is the application of physics which is the application of math which is the application of language linguistics. So the engineer is the top of that list. That engineers got to do the linguistics for everything previous. An engineering degree from my experience becomes impossible for most people to get because they leave the textbook. They constantly complain about how hard it is to learn from the textbook. And then I come in and I go why are you in the course then? You signed up for that course literally to study that textbook which you’re not studying and then the butts and the howevers come but but however but
some of you have an infinite amount of butts and howevers and what about this situation still under this situ it’s endless. I’m like dude you signed up to study that textbook. Why aren’t you studying that textbook? That’s what you signed up to do. You literally joined college to go to that course to study that textbook. And you get there and you’re like, “Hi, professor. I’m paying you to guide me through this textbook that I’m going to study.” And you get there like, “This is ridiculous. This is not the book we should be using. This is all wrong. The professor sucks. What am I paying for? They’re not doing what I want them to do that makes my life as easy as possible. My mom, she cooked for me. My dad, he paid my bills. Now the professor, you should do my homework for me and give me an A.
This is the harsh reality for mechanical engineering. If you’re listening to this and you’re a mechanical engineer student or you’re on your way to college to become a mechanical mechanical ME student, it’s the most soughtafter STEM degree and it’s the most failed STEM degree. And if you’re listening to me, you are definitely in the failure group because the ones that are not failing, they are in the textbooks in lecture doing what they said they were going to do when they they agreed to follow that code of conduct. I’m not saying this to tell you guys you’re stupid or anything like that. It can sound like that sometimes. I I’m telling you that I’m trying to tell you guys in a I don’t know what a facicious manner of how your outlook on reality is not is wrong. Like it’s like yeah uh I went to school. I agreed to the code of conduct. I’m paying the professor to guide me through this book that I signed up to study. I don’t I shouldn’t have to read the book. I shouldn’t even have to go to lecture. I shouldn’t have to follow the code of conduct. I should be able to go on the internet to random.coms and learn random information that isn’t even accurate from my book. You guys understand what I’m saying? Because some of you guys just need to hear it like that. You’re like, “Okay, I get it. I get it. I hate it. I don’t like hearing it that way.” But you’re right. Some of you can’t take it. You’re abusive when you hear it. You’re like, “Thank you for telling me, but I I still don’t like you.” You’re right, but I don’t like you.
Someday you’re going to love me. People hate me all the time until they realize that what they hate about me is what they see themselves. They they see I portray many many different waves of energy to people. And it to some people they vibe with it and some people they don’t. But they usually most people usually come back and they’re like, “I’m sorry. You’re right. I get what you’re saying. You could have said it differently though.” No, I couldn’t have. You never would have heard the message had I said it the way it would be said differently. You would never hear it. You’ve got to be told it in an insulting way sometimes. But but but like in high school we watched Khan Academy. I’m like, “Yeah, you were in daycare.” And the teachers are like, “Just get these kids the hell out of my face. Put them in front of the computer.” It’s the butts, you guys. the the hard what I’ve what I’ve found from mechanical engineer failures is that one of their vers first one of their most favorite go-to words is but or what about this? However, I’m not sure that’s true.
When when that’s your go-to response to somebody that’s been doing this for as long as you’ve been breathing, from my experience, you you’re you’re in the wrong field. You don’t go to a professor in college with a textbook that’s solidified, accredited, and verified by the leading experts on the whole planet and disagree with them. You don’t you don’t go pay money to do that. This book was verified by a thousand different PhDs went through it, worked on it together. I’m a PhD. I’m guiding you through it. Your responsibility is to read it and when you’re questioning it, you come to me for guidance and I show you how to navigate it and you disagree with that. You think watching somebody on Khan Academy is an education. Unfortunately, there this is a huge issue in our country. And that’s why this kid’s this I’m responding because this kid left a comment about how he was trying to access my websites because he wanted to learn through Plum Academy. But the universities blocked them. And I go I go they blocked them because they’re not dot they’re dotcoms. Dotcoms are not accredited websites. The information that you get to them is not guaranteed. And I and my to to combat that argument about what I’m doing is I’m not teaching you anything. I’m showing you in each question we do how to take this textbook, navigate the textbook and solve the problem. Then we move on to a new textbook. We navigate that textbook and we solve that problem. We do it from that book and only that book. And the arguments that you guys have are hilarious when we do that because we’re like we come to a problem where we’re like this isn’t quite coming up and you’re like well in this book it says this. In this book it says this and Wikipedia it says this. Chat GBT says this. I’m like we can’t use any of that. But it looks the same. It’s the same. It’s not. You got to go all the way back through the whole book to verify the rules. And this this is the harsh reality that you guys have. If you leave the book you have left the course. If you left the course, you’re no longer in college. If you’re on Khan Academy, you’re not in college. If you’re on ChatGpt, you’re not in college unless it’s part of an assignment or something.
Mathematics is like becoming a martial artist with the brain. It’s a lot of work. You work a lot of different muscles. Eventually, you just understand how to use your body in a martial art form. And then you challenge yourself by sparring with other people that have been studying longer than you so that you can pick up their skills. And that’s kind of like what we do. We’re like sparring together. And I learn from you guys and you learn from me. I’m just the guy. But but some of you are like, “You’re preaching all this don’t use the internet stuff and yet here you are selling something on the internet.” I go, “Yeah, I know. But what I’m selling you guys is is the experience of how to read these textbooks.” And we use a different textbook every time. We find a textbook legally from some website that probably doesn’t have the rights to host it, but it’s not pirating software, so it’s legal. And we take that book and we take a problem, we solve it. And I’ve never solved it before. I’m just showing you. I’m showing you guys. Look, I’ve never solved it before. I might not have ever used this book before, but I show you. I take the question, I show you how to solve it, then we get the answer, then we go back and we verify the answer is correct using only the methods in the book and nothing else. That has nothing to do with accreditation or studying. It has to do with showing you guys how to read the textbook. This is something that should be done at the beginning of every college degree. You should spend the first the first year of your degree should just be 100% learning how to read a textbook. Oh, wait. That’s exactly what it is. Some because some of you guys are like, “Nobody nobody told nobody ever told me I needed to read this like this.” And I’m like, “I’m sorry, but you signed an agreement on many syllabuses that all said you’re supposed to learn to read this.” If you’re if you’re just like if you’re if you’re in junior year, it’s like nobody nobody told me I was supposed to read. It’s like yeah, dude, the syllabus, you sign these agreements. The the the harsh reality of the mechanical engineering degree is if you’re listening to me, chances are you’re not going to succeed. And especially if you’re in like junior year and you probably found me because you’re feeling the heat. You’re like, “Crap, he’s right. Uh, I ain’t be knowing how to read these books and there ain’t nothing on the internet that is solving these problems. You ain’t going to find anything on the internet for your junior senior courses. It is way way too involved and there’s way too many questions for there to be a streamlined bank like in calculus. There’s only a streamlined bank of information for linear algebra and differential equations because of people like me the past decade added to the library of cheating. But I took all mine down to help you guys.
that you guys really you need to understand it’s so important. If you don’t know how to read that textbook, you’re not gonna you’re not going to be able to read any book in junior senior year. But that’s why I wrote my book to help you guys speed that up if you’re serious about it. If you’re serious about it, the majority of you when you get to junior year, if you’ve been using platforms like Khan Academy to study chat GPT, now you’re not going to succeed. It’s it’s going to be the end of the road for you. or you can overcome the challenge. I had to overcome the challenge because I did use a lot of internet learning my first two years of my degree. Then when I got the junior year, I failed everything and it ruined my scholarship. It it was a disaster. I didn’t fail. I was going to I withdrew and I retook everything. But I overcame. I withdrew said there’s something wrong here. I got to figure this out. And what was wrong was I couldn’t find the solutions to the questions on the internet because they did not exist at the time and I needed to learn how to read the book. So I did. And once I learned how to read that book, everything came together. My whole entire college education became very simple once I started reading that book. And that’s the biggest problem that you guys have. I’m like, you guys will study less. You’ll learn more. You’ll understand it better. You’ll get better grades if you just focus on the textbook and study it the through the way I tell you to study it. And you’re like, less work? Better grades? That’s ridiculous. I want to struggle by searching the internet for unacredited information that takes hours to explain when I could just read the one paragraph in the book that tells me what to do in two seconds. That takes years to get to that point. But if you don’t take practice those years, you’ll never get you’ll never get to that point. Understand? All right. That’s the harsh reality of mechanical engineering degree. Odds are you’re going to fail. But those odds are astronomically in reverse for those of you who take the time to learn how to read the textbook, follow the syllabus, follow the code of conduct, go to lecture, then you have like the greatest chances of success. Those of you who are on the internet skipping lecture using solution manuals and chatbt, you have the worst success rate. And if you’re like, uh-uh, I know a grad school student. Yeah, he was the one that weasled his way through and couldn’t get a job. His only options were grad school.
True story. I know these people. I’m one of them. All right. I’m trying to prevent you from making mistakes. I want you to have an awesome resume come senior year. I I went I went down the wrong roads, but I also went down the right roads. I know everything that you shouldn’t do, and I know everything that you’re supposed to be doing. I just I’m a rebel with a cause or whatever. Anyways, if you’re a mechanical engineering student kid and you want to be successful, go read the code of conduct. Read the syllabus and remember you signed up for that course to study the book that the professor provides you. Literally, why wouldn’t you do that if that’s what you signed up to do? it. All right. Author JD out. Check out my crash course series, guys, if you can. I appreciate those of you who can show some support. It’s tough times. I need all the money I can get. Help a brother out. Subscribe. Become a member. Have yourself a lovely day.