Cannot Decide on a Major

[tfinch2]

Originally posted by: toolboxolio

Originally posted by: angminas

Originally posted by: toolboxolio
New Mexico Tech?

Seriously.... you need to get better friends. That or you need to come to grasp with reality and be happy to have an education at all if that is what your options are.

Edit: Ok, for real... you are way behind the learning curve for technical majors. Spend more time on more programming languages. A single class from High School isn't enough to even pretend to be a programmer. I have come to the conclusion that programming cannot be "taught." However, it can be "learned" by reading previous programmer's tutoruals / books/ docs / APIs etc.


Get with the game, kid. Put down your language books for a while. Get BIG with programming. You have no chance at this current moment in time. And with 14400 baud... I can read faster than you can download text.

This was intended as help? I hope you regret it tomorrow and edit it again. I'm embarrassed, and I didn't even write the stuff.

OP, don't put down your language books and take up programming just because Mockyerbandwidth says so. Data is scarce, but I'm not sure CS is your true love, and apparently neither are you. Go to your library and check out a book called "Do What You Are". I haven't read it, but it's been recommended by one of the wisest and most intelligent people I know. Hopefully it will aim you in the right direction.

But once you find that direction, RUN. Don't let a year off turn into ten years off.

I was being serious. It was the same tough love approach one of my classmates gave me when I wanted to do what he was doing, Computer Science.

He drilled me about all kinds of things I had no clue about. I thought I was a technical person at the time and realized I was just a tech novice.

My classmate learned everything he needed to know by making programming and web development a paying hobby. This was before AND during the time we went to college.

I soon went out and bought tutorials and borrowed alot of his old php and sql books. Then I sat down 2 hours a day and grudged through those books until I came out the other end a more technical person. Couple that with college (which just teaches basics), and I feel that I am leaps and bounds ahead of what I used to be. Thanks to the dose of reality my friend gave me.

I would have certainly failed out of CS if I tried going in there with just faith that I was technically inclined.

Since when is CS and being a technical person knowing PHP and SQL? LOL

 

[iversonyin]

philosophy

 

[FleshLight]

Drama

 

[habib89]

Do what you love.. don't do what makes money.. don't do what other people think is good for you.. stick to languages if that's what you love.. you'll find your nitch in this world... and don't be discouraged if languages or programming doesn't turn out to be what you thought it was.. ther'es tons of stuff out there... i would recommend you take your general education courses, and maybe take a 100 level course for different subjects, you might stumble onto something you like

and as far as money, don't let that discourage you.. there's tons of free money out there for everyone.. if you don't mind my asking, why do you think that you won't be able to get any other scholaships? even so, you can go get a loan for school.. there are plenty of options

 

[Kirby]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
liberal arts ftl

not if you're into teh wimminz.

 

[RollWave]

Originally posted by: jinduy
nursing if u want an easy six fig after a few years experience

Agreed. HUGE money in nursing.

 

[pontifex]

i've read that collins and devry are pretty much joke schools. no 1st hand experience there though. stay away from ComputerTraining.com too, if you value your money.

also, good luck breaking into the gaming industry. you'll most likely be programming insurance or healthcare software or something equally boring. as other have said, playing games and coding them are completely different.

I'd agree with the poster who said about getting into linguistics if you're really into languages.

i'm also not sure what i want to do, but i'm 27 and wanting to chaneg careers.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Originally posted by: habib89
Do what you love.. don't do what makes money.. don't do what other people think is good for you.. stick to languages if that's what you love.. you'll find your nitch in this world... and don't be discouraged if languages or programming doesn't turn out to be what you thought it was.. ther'es tons of stuff out there... i would recommend you take your general education courses, and maybe take a 100 level course for different subjects, you might stumble onto something you like

and as far as money, don't let that discourage you.. there's tons of free money out there for everyone.. if you don't mind my asking, why do you think that you won't be able to get any other scholaships? even so, you can go get a loan for school.. there are plenty of options

Well, as far as doing what I love, I have been doing that but I have to find something to make me some money because of my current financial situation. Our trailer is delapidated, my brother can barely pay rent, my dad works for the Oil Rigs out of town and makes a good paycheck when he gets work, and my mom can't work anymore. My brother has long since passed his opportunity to go to college so it is pretty much up to me.

As for other Scholarships, I have applied for about 15 or so and have yet to get a single one. I don't know if they check what Scholarships you currently have, but if they can see which one I already have, then I don't think they will be inclined to give me anything.

Now, for those of you wondering, I got my two years free at San Juan College from Grade Court. For those of you who don't know what that is, it is a free Scholarship for minors with bad grades who get arrested during the school year. They put you on a program that if you raise your grades to at least a C Average, you graduate from Grade Court.

Also, they test your reading and comprehension skills just in case you don't make the C Average by the time Summer Break comes along. Judging by your results from the test will decide what type of books you have to read over the summer. Since mine was fourth year college level reading and comprehension back in the 10th grade, they had me reading 700+ page books over the summer. Two weeks to read a book and write a book report on it. If you don't do the report, you go to jail.

As for loans and such, I don't really want to get a loan because my cousin, currently 28, is still paying off her college loan. I can get Financial Aid for San Juan, but I don't know about other schools. If I have to get a loan, I shall look into it, but that is a last resort.

 

[pontifex]

wow, based on what you said, i'm kind of confused. you sound like a smart guy, but yet did horrible in school and even got arrested? what did you do (if you can or want to tell us)?

 

[tw1164]

What about international business?

 

[IceBergSLiM]

female anatomy!

 

[razor2025]

Foreign language + interest in technology = consultation FTW.

if the current trend in globalization keeps up, there's bound to be good amount of inter-culture work for IT people.

 

[Stg-Flame]

Originally posted by: pontifex
wow, based on what you said, i'm kind of confused. you sound like a smart guy, but yet did horrible in school and even got arrested? what did you do (if you can or want to tell us)?

I did horrible in school because up until my Senior Year, I rarely did any work and didn't take it seriously. During my Senior Year, I passed all of my classes with a B Average and never did any homework except for some research on my Research Papers for English 4. I heard from friends saying that they stayed up until three in the morning doing their work when I finished it during class. It was just easy for me which is why two of my teachers opted to have my IQ tested.

As for getting arrested I was just a 14 year old Freshmen who made some friends that used me for a scapegoat when it suited them best. Just like most people, I made a stupid mistake as a kid and have made up for it.