? for those that declared Engineering frosh year, then changed majors.

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<p>i personally believe that switching into a different major AFTER the freshmen year is the dumbest thing a person can possibly do for the following reasons. </p>

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<li><p>College of Engineering and College of Letters and Science have different GEs and wasting a year in engineering means that the person has to spend a extra year in college. </p></li>
<li><p>Engineering is stressful and for my case at least in my case i have to work on my hw, prepare for midterms (i, along with most engineers in my college, have 2 midterms and 1 final schedule) while i see my roomy just partying. when i am done with round 1 of my midterms (usually week 4), most people (since they are in College of letters and science) are preparing for their midterms thats the next week (week 5). And when we both get free time, I am usually overloaded with hw, quizzes , labs, etc. </p></li>
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<p>I am fortunate to have chill friends who realize that even though i have a tough courseload, they still force me out of my room and we just go to parties. Most people don’t have the opportunity like that. </p>

<p>Finally i would like to say that if some one has the B***s to pass through all the weeder classes of engineering, they should just dedicate themselves to 3 more years of pain. And in those 3 years, just try and go out every other weekend, so you don’t get overloaded.</p>

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<p>amby262roy, I’m not sure if you’re too fortunate to have your friends pulling you away from the work that you should be doing. I think if you’re set on partying for college, you should choose an easier major.</p>

<p>Also, I’m not sure what you mean by your first point… general classes are general classes, and mostly apply across the board to all freshmen anyway. The only thing you really lose are those credits you took for intro engineering courses. It’s certainly not a dumb thing to do… especially if you think you might be able to cut it in engineering, you’ll have a very lucrative career waiting for you after college. If you can’t, then fine, but you definitely won’t have to spend an entire extra year on college… in most cases anyway.</p>

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<p>The pay off for engineering is not worth the work, the only way you can do it is if our 100% committed from day 1, at least thats the way it is at purdue. where half the people who start out in engineering dont end up with a Purdue Engineering Degree.</p>