I do believe that i picked the worst major in the entire world. I quit mechanic school after a year(couldn't do transmissions), and now I decided to be a history teacher. So now I have eleventy-billion history papers due every week about stuff that has already happened. It isn't like there has been any new developements, how can a teacher even read all those damn papers. Every one of them has to be the exact same... history doesn't change.

Just had to get that off of my mind.

GOD IT SUCKS.

Anybody's major worse than mine?

Hmmmm well education system is completly different here in Ireland, but im doing a Degree in Mechanical engineering,its quite good except.....ive 35 hours of college a week,then i got to work 20 hours so i can stay in college,so i got no time to do all the work and no time to enjoy myself :(

Sorry to hear that you aren't happy in your new major. I dated a girl who wanted to go to college to be a history teacher. That didn't pan out after the first year. She changed her major, added a minor.

Most people don't find what they want to major in the first time out. Most people either establish a major in the first year, only to change it the next year. Or some people don't select a major until the second year.

I'm happy with mechanical engineering.

What I would suggest is talk to a guidance counselor and see what majors are available at your school and maybe take a bunch of general classes.

I was taking Network Security and Computer Forensics, but Ive got a year left, cant afford to go anymore. I got discouraged by my old Public Policy teacher, failed me for missing 1 assignment and 3 class in a semester. I think he got other kids mixed up with me. Oh well. Someday Ill finish it up.

I hated mechanic school, that is why i dropped it for history. It is the one area of normal study that i actually enjoy

stick it out and get your bachelor's. after that you can get a master's in half the time and do whatever you want. the CEO/President of the hospital I work at has a bachelor's in music :P

what was so bad about mechanic school? im considering getting into it. where did you go?

I went to a community college near me to get my associates in applied science. I then moved onto Northern Illinois University in corncountry, DeKalb, IL to major in operations management/information systems (computer science minor, business major) and went ONE year before I got bored off my butt. I didn't want to sit behind a desk all day, I like getting dirty and working with my hands, so I then moved onto Universal Technical Institute and became an automotive/diesel major. This is the best move I have EVER made.

UTI is where im lookin into right now. what campus did you go to? how was it? and what kind of costs were involved? and how was the program set up?

I went to the Glendale Heights campus up here in Illinois because I live up here and had 3 different jobs up here in the 1.5 years I went there. I took the automotive and diesel programs. The straight auto program is 48 weeks, the diesel program is another 16 weeks (some of the classes overlap, like Basic Electricity (course 17) and Electronics (course 22)) and if you take industrial, it's another 6 weeks. Each course is 3 weeks long, and you only take one course at a time unless you double phase (take morning and night simultaneously) in which case you'd go to school all day. Morning is from 6:30am - 12:45pm on the A schedule and from 6:40am - 12:55pm on the B schedule. What schedule you are on depends on what class you are in. Electronics, Driveability and Performance classes are all B. You have a 15 minute break in the morning and a 30 minute lunch. For my 66 week course, I paid $26,000. It has since gone up (I started in August of '04). The only downfall of this kind of school is that you go year 'round. I had a total of 11 days off in 66 weeks; Federal Holidays and 5 days between Christmas Eve and New Year's Day. You have the option of taking 3 weeks or 6 weeks off, but you can only do this once every year in the school, and it pushes your graduation date back. I never took a break.

I hope this answers your questions.

I originally started making my living doing diverse fetish midget porn.

definetly not as glamirous as I thought.

Seriously though, my first or second job was a "grunt" at a local coal power plant, where I got to pull month old rotting carp out of the cooling intakes every now and again.

you have no idea what that will do to your push to stay in college and finish your degree.

Ewww...

I can see it now, "get on your knees, oh wait you dont have to"

^LMAO^

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