Should I pursue engineering?

Right now I’m 20 years old going into my 3rd year as a computer graphics major, but now I understand that I don’t need a degree to do that despite learning so much that I couldn’t have on my own. But now I just feel uncomfortable about my future. I love Computer graphics with a passion, but I want to be realistic. I’m one of the few people that actually don’t mind doing math at all, so I would think engineering would be the practical route to go. I have patience with solving problems but I hate reading and typing useless papers so I wouldn’t want to do nursing or something(like my mom suggested). I think I would lean more into computer or electrical engineering. But I have 2 options that I am thinking about right now.

  1. Taking one more semester of computer graphics, then transferring to an engineer school.(this means that I may graduate 2-4 years later.
  2. Finishing my last 4 semesters and getting the computer graphics degree. Then go to engineering school which might take 3 years or so.

I honestly have no idea what I should do. If I do the first one I might get into engineer earlier with better financial options, but what happens if I can’t pass engineering? If I do the second one, then I might have a degree which might be useless, and I may get into engineering later with less financial benefits, but if I fail I at least have a degree despite it not being as useful. But no matter what happens I’ll always be doing computer graphics. I would like to know what you guys think about it.

Would you be interested in a Computer Science Degree? That is often not in the engineering college and has fewer mathematics and science requirements. It might be an easier switch, the job prospects are excellentand it will mesh nicely with your current studies.

You know what? you might be right about that. I will look into it, but it just gave me a reason to finish up this degree and then figure it out. Thanks!

I hate to tell you this, but get over your lack of desire to read. You will not progress in any field

My son was an ME major and when he had less than the best professors for a class, he learned the information by teaching himself the info from the book.

And as a nurse student, I wrote very few papers so I don’t know what gave you that idea that nurses write a lot of papers. As a matter of fact, my son had many more papers and projects as an ME student.

Graduate with your current degree. Get a job and then see where your are at about going back to school.

why not take a math/science class on the side while u finish up ur degree, it will make the eng degree easier:

generally engineer needs to know:
calc 3, diff equations, linear algebra, physics 2 w/ calc 2, prob and stats 1, +more

most if not all will require: calc 3, diff equations, & physics 2 w/ calc 2

Just sitting at your desk and working in a vacuum doesn’t benefit anybody. The only way I know of learning new material is to read. And the only way of communicating AND DOCUMENTING your work is to write.

It is often thought that engineers don’t know and don’t need to write. The way I see it, they have to be the most PRECISE writers in the world. You don’t have to write the next great novel but you need to communicate in very good detail what you did, why you did it and what it means.

Reading the book is important. But in engineering, the reading/learning you do from the book is usually vastly different from other less technical majors. it usually involves related problem sets. You might like it.