<p>Just curious. Every now and then I wish that I had gone down a different path, like I probably could have just gone to a technical school, graduated, and gotten the same type of jobs I'll be getting with my degree. Then I wouldn't have had to go through all of the frustration with classes and struggling to keep motivated to stay in school. But I have been satisfied with most of my college life.</p>
<p>I just thought this would be a good place to be honest about how we feel about our college choices.</p>
<p>Yes. I have wasted the last two years @ a uni I wasn’t happy with to end up at Community College…because I didn’t focus on myself first and foremost.</p>
<p>But make the best of your choices today. If Dorothy never strayed off the Yellow Brick Road…she would have never killed the Wicked Witch.</p>
<p>Also, don’t take those damned hard classes if you think there’s a chance you might fail…especially if its not your forte. Calculus proved this to me…</p>
<p>Don’t get me wrong, I love my school. But I’m not satisfied that I went to college right away because now coming into my junior year, I realized that I still don’t feel satisfied with my major. I highly admire people who take a year or so off before starting to college. I think (American) society pushes the whole idea of college down our throats. We rush into things and at some point we realize that we weren’t ready or prepared in the first place</p>
<p>At this point, I can’t change my major. The unfortunate thing is that I do know what I want to do, but unfortunately I can’t take that path at my current college because they don’t offer the major that I am interested in. I didn’t realize that I would want to become a speech therapist until the beginning of sophomore year, but I feared transferring because at the time I couldn’t imagine myself any other place but Rutgers.</p>
<p>::sigh:: Fast forward to now, and I have an appointment to see an admissions counselor at this school in New York in two weeks to see how many credits I will be able to transfer from Rutgers. My parents are proud of me no matter what and support my decision. Deep down, I feel it would be the best decision for me if the whole transferring thing goes well. If not, I’ll just have to stick it out for one more year at my current school in a major that I’m lacking interest in at the moment.</p>
<p>I wish I had taken a gap year as well. In a way I sort of did; I squandered my first year of uni and I was a bloody idiot for it. I’m making up for it now. But it would have been much better to take a gap year, a real one, instead of screw things up. I’m thankful I’ve gotten a second chance.</p>
<p>I wasn’t meant to go into engineering, welp, my first semester of college has pretty much been ruined so far because I didn’t really understand what “engineering” was or what it entitled. Switched majors so hopefully I’m a bit more content with what I’m doing starting next semester.</p>
<p>I took 1.5 years off school for deployment. I came back and took really easy classes and have a high GPA. </p>
<p>I knew I wanted to do Finance with a possible Econ major/minor. I hate classes but get through it and party or bro out with my Fraternity Brothers every week. I’ll repeat this every semester until graduation. Then off to the job I will acquire on Wall Street my Junior year.</p>
<p>Wish I hadn’t been so focused on prestige when making my college decisions. Though the quality of my classes is great where I’m at now, I just feel like I would have been happier at a school with more of a focus on undergraduate development.</p>
<p>I was going for electrical engineering technology, but switched to electrical engineering. My biggest mistake was not doing the initial due diligence regarding salaries. Someone mistakenly told me that engineering technology was just ‘off the shelf engineering’, but they did not tell me it paid 30% less.</p>
<p>Hey Vanagandr, I actually started my first year in petroleum engineering technology and then switched into petroleum engineering. It wasn’t so much the salary difference for me because I know sometimes the salaries can be very close between technologists and engineers and even in some cases a technologist can earn more. It was more the fact that a technology degree really limits career options as far as moving up in management or into a business role when compared to an engineering degree. So for me I wish I didn’t kill my first year in Petr tech but hey ya can’t expect to know everything coming out of high school.</p>