Second, the fact that the most relevant data we found on
engineering students’ learning experiences involve complaints,
issues, and problems does not mean there is no positive
aspects in students’ learning experiences. We did find
a small number of tweets that discuss the good things about
being engineering students such as those using hashtag
#engineeringPerks. We chose to focus on the problems in
this paper because these could be the most informative for
improvement of education quality. Future work can compare
both the good and bad things to investigate the trade offs
with which students struggle. From another aspect,
students tend to complain about issues and problems on
social media. This may imply that social media serve as a
good venue for students to vent negative emotions and seek
social support. Therefore, future work can be done on why
and how students seek social support on social media sites.