u/Any_Asparagus1538

This always puzzles me and seeing it happen every time in phonics resources (especially syllable rules that explicitly tell us that we have to split between double consonants) keeps making me ask this question. There isn't two /b/s in "rabbit": there's just one. Look, I know the first vowel in words like "rabbit" are short, and we need a letter at the end of the syllable to make it appear short. But then shouldn't we divide syllables right after the double consonants, like "rabb-it", "hamm-er" and "padd-ing"? It can still look like the vowel right before the consonants is short. Plus, we already have one syllable words with a short vowel right before ending double consonants that team and say just one consonant sound together, like "well", "jazz", and "odd". I think that way is more convenient than what we have since it shows the two consonants say their sound together (therefore showing it's just one consonant sound, like one /b/ in "rabbit") instead of looking like it's two separate consonants that make two consonant sounds blended together.

This always puzzles me and seeing it happen every time in phonics resources (especially syllable rules that explicitly tell us that we have to split between double consonants) keeps making me ask this question. There isn't two /b/s in "rabbit": there's just one. Look, I know the first vowel in words like "rabbit" are short, and we need a letter at the end of the syllable to make it appear short. But then shouldn't we divide syllables right after the double consonants, like "rabb-it", "hamm-er" and "padd-ing"? It can still look like the vowel right before the consonants is short. Plus, we already have one syllable words with a short vowel right before ending double consonants that team and say just one consonant sound together, like "well", "jazz", and "odd". I think that way is more convenient than what we have since it shows the two consonants say their sound together (therefore showing it's just one consonant sound, like one /b/ in "rabbit") instead of looking like it's two separate consonants that make two consonant sounds blended together.

Hey, guys. I need some help. I'm planning on enrolling in NJIT next and majoring in Computer Engineering. From what I heard from a lot of people (mostly from YouTuber @juiceditup) that studying there is h-ll. Computer Engineers (or any Engineers of that matter), how true is that? Do you really slowly lose your soul taking the courses? (figuratively speaking of course)How long does the homework take? And, most importantly, graduates, are you still hired to the job you've got from NJIT if you did? Is the pay worth it over your, as ShivVZG on YouTube would say, health, sleep, and happiness? Edit: I forgot to note that I took three AP classes this year: Physics 1, Environmental Science, and African American Studies. I've yet to take the exams, but I'm doing decent on them in terms of school grades. Could the college courses be easier or harder?

I was considering if it was not worth it, I would immediately change it to something like Information Technology or Information Sciences. Those two are seemingly easier and IS even has free electives. But I was afraid of either them being at bigger risk of AI-replacement, having a slimmer and more fragile job opportunities, or those jobs having a lower wage than CoE. Everyone needs to pay bills and I need to escape debt before it piles up on me. So, IT and IS graduates, what do you have to say? Was the degree worth it? Do you still have a job with that major.