<p>To your second post: I think you could find far more examples of people who wish their parents would have let them do what they wanted. I've never heard a single story of someone who wished their parents had forced them to study all that stuff you just mentioned in a formal setting (and to be quite honest, if my parents told me I "had" to study Greek tragedy and art history, I'd take out a few extra loans and study computer engineering, which is what I enjoy. And if I really couldn't afford it still, I'd join the military, do my 4 years, and then study what I wanted to study). </p>
<p>People should search for whatever it is they love, and certainly not settle for something just to settle for something, but if you go into an engineering program, find that you love whatever it is you are doing, then you shouldn't feel any obligation to not pursue it. Hell, that applies to anything. If you get tired of it later, start searching again. People change careers and go back to school all of the time. If your son enters Fu and finds out he doesn't like his engineering classes, then of course he should switch majors. But if he likes them, why should he feel obligated to learn subjects that don't really interest him? You can say maybe they don't interest him because he's unaware of what they really entail, but why does that matter if he already found something he loved doing?</p>