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> I've seen people with PhDs from top schools who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag.

I've seen PhDs in Electrical Engineering who couldn't repair a television. Somehow they missed that class.

Electrical engineering is a pretty wide field that doesn't necessarily involve working with actual electronics. Personally, I've built a circuit simulator software package, but I can't actually design or build circuits worth a damn. I had to copy all but the most basic test circuits for my project off of existing designs, and I'd probably fail to build a physical realization of most of them.

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