<p>and here i thought the wave of people on this forum asking about double majoring in engineering had finally ended</p>
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<p>Most people who want to double major don’t understand the process. When I was 13, I wanted two PhD’s because I didn’t really understand what a PhD was.</p>
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<p>Well, you have to decide <em>sometime</em>. And yes, even at this point after four years in the job market, it would be like pulling teeth for me to give up my delectable salary and go back to grad student living, particularly when my husband and I are looking at buying a house and blah blah blah. And my (really reasonable) employer will only pay for more school in $2K annual chunks, and they get to sign off on what you do… $2K doesn’t buy you much of a degree.</p>
<p>I don’t think it’ll hurt you all that much to get a masters if that’s what you decide you want to do by the time you graduate with your bachelors degree. That MS in structures will get you your first really good job, you’ll make connections in the market, and then they’ll just be glad to have someone with experience. The traffic people in my firm just found out that I used to work for another traffic firm in town when I was an undergrad, and they’re adamantly and repeatedly trying to get me to do some “cross-discipline projects”. It doesn’t seem that my masters in structural engineering is keeping them from trying to lure me away from my current department.</p>
<p>As an engineering professor, my dad knew quite a few students who intended to go back for a master’s degree after a few years of working, and hardly any of them actually did. He always encouraged people to go straight through.</p>