<p>To be honest with you, DarkPassenger, chemical engineering opened doors for me that I would have never thought possible when choosing it as a major. When I first started college, I loved engineering, but something was missing. Two big things happened: I started getting to see chemical engineers in the profession, and realized that I didn’t want to be like that. I just didn’t see myself in their shoes when I looked into my future. The second things that happened is that I met an attorney for the first time ever in my life. I realized that he and his profession… and by profession I don’t mean that study of it, but the practice of it… truly fascinated me. I saw myself in him in so many ways. So that was the turning point for me. Somehow I could look back at when I was young and see myself as a lawyer, and I could look into my future and see myself as a lawyer… something I couldn’t ever have done with engineering. So that was it. But here’s the best part. I started looking at fields of law, and right off the bat, patent law jumped out at me. It was unique. It was one of the very few fields of law that dealt with technology, and one of the only ones that dealt with inventors. I couldn’t believe there was a law field that worked with inventors and engineers to protect their ideas. I was completely blown away, and ever since that moment, about one year ago, I have never strayed from wanting to be a patent lawyer. And since patent lawyers have to have a science or engineering degree, I was qualified to choose it as a career. If it weren’t for my chemical engineering undergrad that I had been pursuing, I may not have ever stumbled upon patent law… and even if I had, I may not have had the technical degree to allow me to pursue it. So I feel unbelievably blessed to have lucked out. I truly think a degree in chemical engineering will set you up for anything you want to be in life. And if you want the soft background… double-major. I did. I am a double-major in chemical engineering and English and have never been happier in my life. It’s quite amazing.</p>
<p>Awesome, LaBarrister! Chemical Engineering appealed to me for the science background, the types of people I would be working with, and the feeling of productivity and usefulness that would come with successfully completing the degree. However, my mom, a first gen college student, was an English major before attending Harvard Business School and has always pushed that major in my direction. Really, I would enjoy both, and the fact that you were able to double major is very encouraging. Law was the original endgame for me as well, whether as a patent lawyer or FBI/CIA operative. But then again, as a high school senior still figuring out where he wants to go to college, it can be quite uncertain regardless. Just out of curiosity, what college do you attend?</p>
<p>Those of you that are majoring in chemical engineering, how/why did you choose that discipline over all the others?</p>