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Originally Posted by BreakABone
That was an awful freshman year. I just wasn't having fun in doing what I was doing.
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Engineers have a running joke that you'll never really have fun taking your classes. It's a "love hate" major. I waited 2 years hoping that it would all "click," and it hasn't. I kept telling myself, wait just one more semester and you'll start enjoying yourself. The classes I have had the most fun in so far have been my English, Psychology and Philosophy class. This semester has been the final straw; I discovered that I really dislike programming. Previously, I wasn't too fond of my Math and Engineering classes, but coming to the realization that I also hate programming...well, my major is comprised of Math classes, Engineering classes, and Programming classes.
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Originally Posted by Jonbo298
Yeah, taking Calculus classes as a pre-req before getting into the course will suck but I'll manage. It won't be so bad in the end. As someone else said, I'd rather have a decent paying job that I enjoy, then a high paying job I hate. Once you lose that high paying job or quit, you'll most likely take a paycut since you never liked what you did in the first place, maybe starting back near the bottom, depending.
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I liked single-variable Calc enough, but all the multi-variable stuff has been a little too abstract and dry for me. Finding tangent planes and tangent vectors for abstract functions in three-space is mind numbing. I considered meteorology at one point, but I think weather is more of something I enjoy reading about and just observing in person. If you go for a job in meteorology you should go do storm chasing or something.
But do whatever you enjoy. I made the mistake of trying to stick out this major despite having some major doubts first semester freshman year. It's a minor setback to hopefully doing something I enjoy.