why/how did you choose engineering?

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<p>why/how did you choose engineering? what about your specific major? just curious.</p>

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<p>Here is a recent thread:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1080938-why-did-you-chose-engineering-when-you-started-college.html?highlight=why+did+you+choose+engineering[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/engineering-majors/1080938-why-did-you-chose-engineering-when-you-started-college.html?highlight=why+did+you+choose+engineering&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Even though I loved physics in high school, I NEVER would have thought I would do engineering (wasnt a huge fan of math). Came into college as a history/archaeology/anthro major. First semester I took a CompSci class, because it sounded interesting and I’ve always wanted to try learning it, and got hooked. Transferred over to engineering in my second semester. The math I’m doing now is actually really interesting, which was a nice surprise</p>

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<p>My dad was an EE. When I was looking at college, I wanted to go to school for meteorology. My dad said he would pick up most the tab if I majored in EE. So I majored in EE…</p>

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<p>lol gotta love bribery casper993</p>

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<p>Ahahahha…
Oh Casper.</p>

<p>I hope you at least like Engineering.</p>

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<p>I just can’t imagine my life without engineering (going to be a grad student soon).</p>

<p>Engineers DO things. They take what they learn and create things. Always improving the current status of science and technology, and literally shaping the world around us. From the bridges that civil engineers design to the medical devices that bioengineers create to the cars and airplanes that mechanical engineers optimize to the cell phones and laptops that electrical engineers and computer scientists make.
When you’re an engineer, you don’t just think about the world and write essays on what you feel or think about certain subjects. You MAKE something out of what you learn. I feel like that practicality and real-life application makes engineering a worthwhile skill.</p>

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<p>Because it’s the best undergrad major…highest starting pay and relatively good job prospects</p>

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<p>High paying salary is always great, but also the love for problem solving and science/logic oriented work</p>

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<p>I agree with profoundquiet. I really like it that I’m not just pushing paper around all day long. When a building goes up well, it’s very rewarding to drive by it and know that we were a big part of its design.</p>

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<p>great point profoundquiet. I’m really considering doing engineering over business for that very reason.</p>

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<p>I’m an EE major now primarily doing software.</p>

<p>I’ve always liked to build things. I got started programming when I was young and I saw people writing neat little IRC scripts that automated tasks.</p>

<p>This is a great quote about CS from Frederick Brooks, “The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.”</p>

<p>It sounds like magic. And right now, CS is the closest thing you can get to magic.</p>

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<p>bumppppppp</p>

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<p>I wanted to major in Philosophy, or perhaps TV appreciation, or even Human Sexuality Practices, but it turns out that those majors paid poorly, or didn’t exist, or weren’t what I was hoping they were. So I majored in engineering and made the others hobbies.</p>

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<p>^ Haha tv appreciation. I’m out of school so I though I’d take the time and work on that major.</p>