for all those in engineering take a look at this

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/03/top-5-reasons-i.html


i personally like number 2:

2. Other Disciplines Have Inflated Grades
Brilliant engineering students may earn surprisingly low grades while slackers in other departments score straight As for writing book reports and throwing together papers about their favorite zombie films.

Some professors view undergraduate education as a type of natural selection, but their analogy is flawed. Many of the brightest students may struggle while mediocre scholars can earn top scores because they have a larger group of supportive friends to or more time to dedicate to studying.

MANY OF THE BRIGHTEST STUDENTS..true that, true that