What should I study

[CraKaJaX]

Electrical Engineering. It's a blast! :thumbsup:

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: txrandom
Women's studies. There will always be women around.

Yup, pay may not be very good (unless you land a nice one), but the rewards of the job are awesome.

 

[sdifox]

Originally posted by: sjwaste
The people telling you not to go to college are flat out wrong. College is more than the classes you take, and the experience is what you make of it.

However, you do not need a major going in. Your first year will be mostly general education requirements, as will your second. You might get to start taking major core classes in your 4th semester, but most of that happens in your 3rd year and on. The first two years will give you a good idea of what's out there and what you might want to study. If you really still don't know what you want to do, major in business so that you're employable on the way out. You'll at least make enough with that degree to save up and pay for your own grad school if you want to switch fields.

I personally ended up with an economics degree, after going into college dead set on studying biology. My school had a gened path for science majors, which included some of the intro courses that double-counted for the major and gen ed, I took those, and realized it wasn't for me. Decided to take the CIS intro course, sort of liked it, but liked my general econ class better. Worked out well because I liked the math I was taking in the science program, but not really the bio part. I elected to keep taking the math courses for science majors (basically all pure math) while majoring in econ (mostly applied math), getting a BBA in Econ w/ a quantitative concentration. Once you're there, the choices are all for you to make.

You can take easy classes, hard classes, skip class, attend class, whatever, but the experience and education are all what you make of the time there. It's only a waste of money if you don't learn anything.

not wrong, realistic. Not everyone is suited for university. It is an aptitude thing, not about smarts. I probably should have never bothered with a degree. I goofed through school after year 1.

I make a distinction between college and university. University is mostly theoretical, whiles college is applied. Obviously I am excluding disciplines such as engineering and medicine.

 

[Gibson486]

Originally posted by: KillerCharlie
Did you take all the advanced math and science classes in high school? If not I wouldn't bother with engineering.

I didn't take those classes and I did fine.