<p>Hey, so I am a senior going to either NC State or a different institution. A big deciding factor for me and this choice is graduate level placement AFTER undergraduate experience, as well as, the quality of education at NC State.</p>
<p>So, my conundrum: I, being a high school senior, have relatively NO idea what I want to pursue... In general, I like thinking about things rather than doing things. I pride myself with my writing capacity; I am prone to forgetfulness/little mistakes, and am overly concerned with book learning rather than the alternative. </p>
<p>HOWEVER,</p>
<p>Physics is awesome, math is beautiful, writing is natural (and debate by association), anything biological is very INTRIGUING (however, I am prone to be overly obsessed with neurology, which most people my age seem to be anyways), trivia is very fun, psychology is cool, and economics is appealing.</p>
<p>But, a caveat presents itself, NC State is particularly known to be an ENGINEERING INSTITUTION. My dream jobs entail many delusions of grandeur with Nobel Prizes or presidential speech writings and the like, but on the notion that that is decidedly improbably, a career in academia has seemed wonderful to me (as it does to MANY people), but also, people have told me that my general mannerisms lead me to such a career. </p>
<p>So, a roundabout discussion for my point; I do not know if I would like engineering, and indeed, I may LOVE it; however, I AM concerned that if I don't like it and take physics/bio/chem/anything instead of engineering that I will look like a failed engineer to graduate schools because I took these classes instead of engineering at primarily an engineering institution. </p>
<p>So, what should I do? Is this the case? Since I haven't experienced really anything in the world, I cannot know what I like/don't like ... or anything! I just don't want to end up shooting myself in the foot...</p>