<p>I was in a Chemical Engineering program and was academically disqualified because I failed thermo and numerical methods.</p>
<p>I have three semesters of Calc, diffy-Q, lin algebra, a year of physics, a year of gen chem, and a year of O-Chem.. ect..</p>
<p>Honestly, im not very good at programming, and im honestly not all that good at theoretical calculus and physics. I mean, I can get by but i cant really manipulate the tools as well as a good engineer should be able to do. </p>
<p>Whenever I fill out a career assessment it just tells me to be an engineer. So where do the would-be engineers go when they cant hack the curriculum???</p>
<p>They either man up and work their butts of to make sure they can hack it or they go into literally any major that seems easier to them. The bottom line is this: either you are willing to put in the work that is required or you aren’t. Programming especially is something that requires primarily logic and persistence, not some innate talent.</p>
<p>OP: There are many, many great majors. Maybe start by thinking about what classes you have enjoyed and done well in. Can you talk to an academic advisor or professor in those depts?</p>
<p>Stereotypically, business might be somewhere to look. I’m not sure it’s a stereotype I completely or unconditionally agree with, but you should expect less (and less theoretical) math, and next to no physics or programming, in at least some undergraduate college of business majors. Just a thought, and one I admit is not particularly good or fair to business majors in general. To excel in any major will require considerably more effort than is needed to get by, which is my (mistaken?) impression of what you’re shooting for.</p>
<p>Engineering technology is another possibility. These kinds of programs can lead to careers as engineering technologists or technicians, or in some cases, to the same kinds of jobs you might get with an engineering degree. I don’t know much about them except that they tend to focus more on hands-on lab work and less on math, physics and computation.</p>
<p>I always say that work and patience are the Top 2 things needed for engineering and mathematical/physical sciences. If you don’t have the patience (and drive) to attempt to solve a problem…find out 90% of the way that you were wrong…and start over from scratch again, then engineering is not for you.</p>
<p>Math major, Acctuary, Accountant, business, Econ, finance, Math teacher. Do you need to stay away from people? Would that nerd factor eliminate teacher and sales.</p>
<p>What do you enjoy doing? Also, do you feel good about it because you get good “grades”, or from the satisfaction you derive from the activity?</p>
<p>It may be that you need to spend more time on your classes than other students (in order that the concepts are sufficiently reinforced that you pass the tests). Would you be willing to do that (at the expense of other things that you enjoy)?</p>
<p>I know some people who flunked out of engineering that wound up with respectable engineering careers. They spent a lot of time carving out niches for themselves. Would you be willing to do that, at the expense of other things that you enjoy?</p>
<p>Pretty much everyone I know who couldn’t handle an actual engineering major went into industrial engineering.</p>
<p>Business majors are all considerably easier to grasp, though depending on the school, you may need to put just as much the material to get a good grade, due to the sheer quantity of material and competition.</p>
<p>Accounting majors are probably the closest in personality to engineers.
How you managed to fail numerical methods but succeed in diffyq and ochem is beyond me, but I guess people have talents in different areas.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if I decide to peruse engineering it will have to be at a different school, probably in another state because I was kicked out of the whole engineering program at my school, which includes all engineering disciplines. Presently, I am limited to hopping into a program that doesn’t have minimum GPA requirements. Someone said chemistry, which is an option but im also concerned about finding a good career and from what I understand a B.S. in a broad science like chemistry isn’t very marketable…</p>
<p>Part of me wants to pursue anything that will allow me to easily repair my GPA and shift my focus to graduate school. I found a graduate program in Industrial hygiene/safety that sounds like it may be a good compromise for me because it involves monitoring a worksite for possible chemical contaminations and health risks. This degree would allow me to pull knowledge from my science background and turn it into a marketable career. And at the end of the day I still get a hard hat ;)</p>
<p>My husband started off chemical engineering and ended up in Pharmacy. Of course, it was a lot easier to get into Pharmacy then but still something to consider.</p>
<p>You are underestimating yourself. You are a human being and you have the smartest computer in the world at your fingertips. You and your brain have more than enough computing power to excel at engineering. It is up to you to WORK HARD and make it happen.</p>
<p>As JFK said: “We must do it not because it is easy but because it is hard”.</p>