Blog Post 3: March 20th, 2022
After reading most of Daring Greatly, I think the thoughts about 'armor' to protect from vulnerability can be applied to STEM in a lot of cases. A big part of succeeding at university is the mentality of, "I'm an educated person now, I need to be able handle 'x' assignment or 'y' project on my own." Or maybe something along the lines of living up to the expectations that society sets on people who aim to become professionals in a field. If you needed a bunch of tutoring and help to finish an assignment, are you really that good of a mathematician, engineer, scientist, etc? The answer is: yes, it does make you that good to reach for resources when assistance is needed, that's a part of being educated. Students might not see it that way though, they may think, "god, is this really the degree for me if I can't even do this? It's barely a lower-division course, what about the higher division ones?". So they may set up 'arm...