<p>I am in my first year of CC and I cant decide on a major. For the past 2 years I have been going back and forth between business and engineering, i figure if i like business i dont really need a degree in it to start up my own business and i dont want to get stuck in some human resources job or something (no offense to any HR people out there). As of now im planning on transferring to UC Davis and doing civ or envE</p>
<p>Im not really sure what engineering i should do, i am interested in a really wide range of subjects. i really like learning about alternate energy, i like working with magnets, i like a lot of aspects of envE, i like learning about anything that flies wether its space shuttles, airplanes, or base jumping suits, i love learning about how the ancient civilizations created everything they did with just relatively primitive tools, but i also love thinking of different businesses and planning them out. i love learning about astronomy and medicine and the law.</p>
<p>But i think what i like most is being in the outdoors, wether its fishing, hiking, hunting, skydiving, or painting a scene.</p>
<p>They need to invent something to make life long enough for it all lol.</p>
<p>Don’t niche yourself with your degree, Environmental won’t open as many doors as a more general engineering major (EE, CivE, ME, ChemE). CivE won’t get you working with magnets, things that fly, alternate energy, or base jumping suits. Go with EE, ChemE, or ME, and maybe even Operations Research/Management.</p>
<p>Structures would, for some of that, but you’d need to get at least a masters… You’d definitely get your fix of outdoorsness with structural design and forensics, if you made a point of getting a job with lots of fieldwork. </p>
<p>Ultimately, though, I agree… Sounds kind of like you’d want to be a mechE.</p>
<p>I agree with the above posters when they said that you should try and find a “broad degree.” Something like ME or CHE can go just about anywhere. </p>
<p>Also, you can move around in engineering. It’s boundaries are not as clearly defined as other areas, i.e medicine. What I mean is if you get say an ME degree, you could end up working in BIOMED, civil or something like that.</p>
<p>yea thats kinda what i was thinking. at Davis they don’t even have envE as a major, you do civ and take a concentration in env. so im guessing its just some courses in env studies or env laws or something similiar. </p>
<p>also does anyone know if you can take less classes a semester to lighten the workload? i was looking at example schedules for a lot of different schools for an eng degree and they all had like 17+ units a semester. could i take less classes a semester and then just go to school longer?</p>
<p>Of course you can take less credits. The suggested curriculum is put into place for students to graduate in 4 years. If you choose to take less credits you will simply graduate later.</p>
<p>nmarquez: I’m a UCD grad and I took 6 years to graduate. My last year I had one class a quarter in order to graduate. So I took a lot of environmental electives, played in the orchestra, and got a co-op.</p>