help... majors other than engineering stuff?

[ElFenix]

maybe you're just not cut out for college. i think there are a lot of people in college who shouldn't be there. thats just my thought, though.

 

[kuk]

I was going engineering last year, but thank god I changed my mind and I'm seeking architecture now.
I like numbers ... just not that much. 😉

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
maybe you're just not cut out for college. i think there are a lot of people in college who shouldn't be there. thats just my thought, though.

Or maybe he's not cut out for civil engineering and should become a history major like you.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: WinkOsmosis

Originally posted by: ElFenix
maybe you're just not cut out for college. i think there are a lot of people in college who shouldn't be there. thats just my thought, though.

Or maybe he's not cut out for civil engineering and should become a history major like you.

while that could be insulting it isn't because history was merely my 3rd major. i still did all the math and calculus.

 

[abracadabra1]

I'm an EE student. As of right now, I'm failing both my first EE class and my physics class. Last year my GPA each semester was about 20X what my current GPA will be...that said, I'm sticking with EE. I figure it's far better to have an engineering degree than a liberal arts degree (even though life as an EE plain sucks).

I say stick with civil engineering. Work harder, smarter, and get help from others.

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: abracadabra1
I'm an EE student. As of right now, I'm failing both my first EE class and my physics class. Last year my GPA each semester was about 20X what my current GPA will be...that said, I'm sticking with EE. I figure it's far better to have an engineering degree than a liberal arts degree (even though life as an EE plain sucks).

I say stick with civil engineering. Work harder, smarter, and get help from others.

Like I said, 5 years of your prime!

 

[OS]

Don't be an engineer. It's not worth it at all. First of all, there are no girls. None. It seems trivial, but seriously, it f*cking sucks to no end. Do you really want to spend the best 5 years of your life jacking off with other geeks? Forget having any kind of active social life when the rest of your classmates are inactive nerds. And when going to class you gotta get into an elevator full of other geeks, goddamn it smells bad. How the hell can geeks possibly smell so bad, no one breaks a sweat sitting in front of a computer all day.

Also, when you get out, there are no jobs, it's f*cking dead out there right now. The unemployment rate for engineers right now is actually higher than it is for the general population. And I don't want to hear the excuse that it's because the economy is bad, no sh*t. When the economy is good, there are good jobs for everyone, not just engineers.

The market pay really isn't another class above other jobs that require a college degree. And if you decide to be an engineer forever, your salary caps out at just under six figures. That's really no better than many other career paths.

Being an engineer is so overrated.

 

[OS]

oh yeah, also engineering classwork sucks. You look at brain twisting equations and diagrams all day. I currently work as a sales rep and when I go to my engineering grad class at night, the contrast makes HW even more irritating. My current HW assignment is a bunch of stupid silicon etching problems where I have to calculate the graph for specific set of conditions. I look at my HW and I don't want to do anymore of these stupid brain twisting calculations.

Three weeks into engineering grad school and I'm seriously thinking about dropping out now. Thanks to engineering, I now understand the distinction between something that I'm good at and something I enjoy.

 

[bleeb]

QUIT school and become a PRON STAR

 

[Martin]

How much do you study? I'm curious. In HS I never studied more than .5hrs once every 2 days and it was enough to get into compeng. Now (2nd year) I find that I have to put in a good 3 hours a night (4-5 days a week) to get a decent (around a B) mark.

Anyway, first decide what you want to do for the rest of your life. Take a look at your skills and your tastes. If you decide to stay in engineering, get your sh1t together and study your ass off. I failed my share of midterms and quizes in 1st year, and still got through with a better than average mark.