Originally posted by: Barack Obama
Man forget CS or engineering, do majors where theres heaps of chicks, e.g. psychology. You'll thank me aftewards.
I don't think so.
Sure, `chicks` will party with whoever when on campus, but at the end of the day, after all is graduated, those chicks will dump whoever it was that can't get a decent paying job once they see that Engineer that has just landed his first job @ $90k+ fresh out of college.
ATM I am done with the CSE portion and am less than a year away from getting my EE to get both degrees and get the F out of here and carry on where I left my life the day I enrolled in this college. But the ONLY thing that kept me going despite all the hardship and deprivation (of fun mainly) I had to put myself through, is knowing that :
A- I LOVE what I would be able to do after graduation, even now, I thankfully am conducting some promising research that I am involved in and have some patent applications in, I might be not so far away from making my dream project product a reality and perhaps having my own startup one day God willing.
B- Nothing else out there would have been able to give me the mental satisfaction I am getting right now out of my major(s) and the challenges they involve.
C- With all the hands on experience I have garnered working for / with multiple big corporations throughout my education and research, I KNOW I am in a position to not accept being underpaid. And I am not alone amongst my fellows,
Engineers for the most part, find themselves on the better end of the bargaining table.
My friend who graduated as a CSE a year before me, was able to negotiate his salary much more than what he was offered and I was not surprised, his skills are rare and not so easy to come by, many companies would have loved to hire him.
The US from what I am observing is looking at a shortage of Good Well trained American Engineers. Enrollment at the Engineering college where I am for instance, is taking a nose dive year after year, many people don't want to sacrifice so much of their time to get an Engineering degree, plus to many on MySpace, it's not `K00L` to say that today you have just learned how to do an "Inverse Z-Transformation through using an inversion integral" or that you have just gained the insight today that "It might not be the case that Google Maps just simply uses graphs and nodes to map paths in between destinations anywhere in the country! The order of the nodes would be insanely huge!" or whatever it is that people would snore right after you say...
In short, In Engineering you will get stretched, twisted, compressed, mentally pounded and challenged on extreme levels.
Where I go, the CSE && EE department has a low retention rate. Nearly 40-50 % of a freshman CSE class drops in favor of Business or Finance. Some people think they are in for easy classes, fcking around and getting easy A's while coming half sober to class, little they know that 1st semester was going to put them through hell.
In Engineering, if you want a promising future, you will have to, either you like it or not to kiss your social life goodbye, so if finding `chicks` is a priority to you, odds are, you won't find them in an Engineering college on a campus , even if it was the last radiation safe area on Earth after a nuclear war :laugh:
However I have always been passionate about Physics, I have always been good in Physics, I don't know much about what majoring in Physics would promise, but I can tell you that most people in that area that I know, ended up in Academia and research, which is not bad, if you want to do that at the end.
for me, it was my passion for innovating devices and solutions that pushed me towards engineering... I didn't think I would get exposure to that much in Physics.
But Good luck anyways Res.
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