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ChadTower:
I have strong brand awareness?
AlanS17:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on April 01, 2007, 02:06:53 am ---Move to Texas, enroll at Texas A&M, take 9 hours a semester for 2 semesters and then 6 hours over the summer. If you time it right, you'll be an "instate resident" for your sophomore year.
Don't get caught up on east coast crap. A&M is top notch for engineering and math.
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WHOOP!!!
nostrebor:
I'm gonna throw some advice in here, USSE is gonna completely ignore it, and Tommy is gonna call me a big meany...
USSE, totally disregard everything about test scores, college classes, tuition costs. Once you finish your 5-6 years (or 10 years in pinballjim's case ;) ) are you really going to want a career that focuses heavily on a subject that does not come naturally to you?
I scored very well on my entrance exams, but also struggled with the math. I *intended* to go in hard for a civil or mechanical engineering degree. I forced myself to get top scores in my college math classes. I actually carried the curve in geometry and trig classes. I seriously busted ---my bottom--- to do it and was proud of the "win".
What I also learned was that having to constantly bust my hump to get through the math work was not fun. It made my job REALLY sucky and stressful... and I had the training to be really good at it. The bottom line is that it is not my natural talent and it was really stressing me out to consider the idea that I would spend my entire professional life doing math.
So... I pushed my career choice toward my natural talent. I'm good at visualization. I'm good at making things, I can see complex buildings in my head. I still use a huge amount of math, but it is not my primary focus. Because of my choice, I absolutely love what I do for a living, and I'm a natural at it. Plus it's a right fine way to make a very comfortable living.
I say all this simply to say that you have to look farther out in front of you than just getting through the classes in college. You need to soul search and find what you are naturally good at. I found that ability in a set of drafting classes that I took as a Junior and Senior in HS. I just didn't realize it until I had already hammered 2 years into College taking that damnable math schedule. Maybe you aspire to crunch numbers all day. I doubt it though, based on your comments and scores up to this point.
My 2 pennies.
nostrebor:
Just a few added notes...
I am not a draftsman by trade. I did spend several years weilding that sword but I have moved on. I now spend my time telling those fancy engineers and architects how to actually build those buildings that they cannot figure out on their own, and what it's gonna cost to do it. It's a lot of fun to poke at 'em while I'm doing it.
boykster:
--- Quote from: nostrebor on April 02, 2007, 07:38:59 pm ---Just a few added notes...
I am not a draftsman by trade. I did spend several years weilding that sword but I have moved on. I now spend my time telling those fancy engineers and architects how to actually build those buildings that they cannot figure out on their own, and what it's gonna cost to do it. It's a lot of fun to poke at 'em while I'm doing it.
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Big Meany!!!
That Nos...he's just mean!
;)
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