<p>oh boy! free food! does caltech provide a list of seminar courses?</p>
<p>Yes. You will get it when you register, but it is also available by going to the catalog at the Caltech registrar website and looking at the first few course numbers in each option you are interested in (E for Engineering, ChE for Chemical Engineering, etc.) The seminar courses are usually number 10.</p>
<p>Don't go taking E10 though, that's a communications requirement. There's a one-unit E2 lunch pizza seminar class for that.</p>
<p>As is Ma 10. If you want to know more about math, talk to a prof. The math club also meets sometimes, and they usually have free pizza. At least I think they do . . .</p>
<p>Where "sometimes" means "in some years"...</p>
<p>Cool, thanks! Btw, what's with all the "Coming soon!" sections on the Career Center website?</p>
<p>I think they recently had a big site redesign and are bringing it back online. They used to have very nice PDFs up of everything so I have no idea why they don't just link them.</p>
<p>You can still get to them through the wayback machine</p>
<p>oh i see .. what's the wayback machine?</p>
<p>Search Google for "wayback machine".</p>
<p>ohhh! thanks!</p>
<p>btw, right now I'm almost decided on Caltech, but I'm interested in one more thing ... as I said, I'm not quite sure what I want to do after undergrad, so how flexible is Caltech in preparing you for careers other than engineering (which I will probably do in undergrad regardless of what I will do after)?</p>
<p>also, I was also looking at some salary information for 2002 BS degrees using wayback .. I see that 4 E&AS options were offered salaries over $79,999 ... is there any way to determine what exactly "E&AS" is here?</p>
<p>I think Engineering and Applied Science.</p>
<p>Yep. That's it. It's a general Engineering option, where people get broad exposure and typically go work for venture capital/consulting/etc. firms, not always hard engineering (which explains the salaries, maybe).</p>
<p>ah, i see - sounds intriguing, since I'm not quite sure what I want to do after undergrad. On that note, how flexible is Caltech in preparing you for careers in fields other than engineering (though I'll probably do engineering undergrad anyways)? (other than the fact that its difficulty makes professional school more difficult)</p>
<p>I have many friends who have gone on to do investment banking, consulting. A kid I know last year went off to Harvard Law School. While more students at Caltech go off to do engineering and science than students at other schools, the opportunities are limitless. Caltech is basically a long intelligence test, and once you prove your mettle many companies will be eager to snap you up no matter what they want you to do.</p>
<p>(Google is also a big destination of Caltech alums, and obviously there you can go on to do management, marketing, art, whatever, even if you started out as an engineer. That is only one example.)</p>
<p>hmmm ... I think that sort of makes me a bit worried about Caltech's infamous rigor ... I mean, I went to a Magnet high school in Maryland, but I'm not quite sure what to expect from Caltech. I've spoken to students who've graduated and attended caltech, but they've given me conflicting opinions, which probably shouldn't be very surprising ...</p>
<p>If you work hard, and don't stay in a major which isn't right for you (which is typically the way the unhappiest students get so unhappy) you can graduate with over a B average. Anyone admitted to Caltech can. I firmly believe this.</p>
<p>So don't worry about whether you can hack it. You can.</p>
<p>whew, after some intense deliberation, I've decided to try Caltech! Oh boy, I sure hope I don't end up regretting this decision ... About half of the students at Caltech graduate with 3.5+ GPAs, right? I hope I can pull off a 3.7+! :-D</p>
<p>Yes, close to half graduate with honors. Welcome!</p>
<p>THanks for all your help! Do you have any suggestions for maybe being better prepared for the Core courses at Caltech?</p>