[I am repurposing my comment response to LStrom’s blogpost on Going to the Doctor.] So, as I mentioned during the book report session, I spent about the past 3.5 years (January 2013) thinking that it was 95% likely that I have MS, due to MRIs, blood work, and office exams with Neurologist #1. I came to discover in Fall 2015 that…
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Listening to others: Engineers and qualitative work
Much like there are stereotypes regarding engineers as repositories of technical expertise, engineers express stereotypes about working with people who aren’t “on the team”. Value is not conferred to qualitative work within engineering – it is less important to be able to communicate than to solve equations. This is part of the reason I find such hope within the…