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by zenbowman 4431 days ago
It's not that it has little value, just that it is extremely easy for someone with an engineering mindset.

I took a single class at the USC Law School on Constitutional Law. It was considered a brutal general education class, but myself and some fellow engineers in the class found it absolutely trivial. Turns out case law has many similarities to formal logic.

An engineering education gives you a huge toolset with which to model and solve different kinds of problems, a toolset that non-engineers simply do not possess.