Academic and Applied Disciplines: Which are more difficult to study, sciences or engineering fields?

Neither is more difficult in any absolute sense than the other. What matters is what kind of brain you have. Does your brain work better at Remembering a lot of stuff and putting it together like an erector set? Remembering unified principles and dealing with stuff as an expression of them? For Number 1, engineering fits better. For Number 2, science fits better. This may or may not have anything to do with how difficult it is, but it might. Too much stuff can confuse a 2 person, but a 2 person can also work out ways not to remember too much stuff. I'm a 2 kind of person. This is why, when I went to MIT, it wasn't for me. There was too much stuff and too little theory. It was pretty easy, but it didn't engage me. It's very easy for me to learn a new programming language, for example. Languages have a lot of rules, like for example, how comparison operators work on strings. Instead of remembering the rules, I think, "Oh, yeah, they're using pointer equality here" or "They're doing Unicode modifying character normalization." All or almost all of the rules derive from something like this, and so I just remember the principle. If there's an exception, it's usually a hack, and there are few of them. Even with languages with a lot of seemingly arbitrary stuff, such as Perl, I find it a lot easier to remember the psychology of Larry Wall than to remember every detail. Other people have a high capacity to remember detail. They're more comfortable looking at tables of numbers. Such people would do much better in the engineering mindset, and more power to them, because it's easier to get hired and make money that way.

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there is no single answer to this question. i am in mechanical engineering and found my pure maths courses to be absolute hell. now i am reading some stuff for fun and it doesn't seem that difficult now.