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are you happy with your decision of college/major?
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i got the idea from this but i'm also bitter about what the perception vs reality is between colleges. in california.. the general thought is you go to a cal state if you can't go to a uc. my sister went to the best uc she could get into (at the time) and hated every minute of it. i went to a uc and hated the major options. after completing the sequence and talking to friends i know i made a horrible mistake.
also, if you're not doing something that requires a degree...maybe its better you just get an associates/trade school cert and avoid the huge debt collge has
edited to say.. this is mostly 2000 + era when the cost of a degree is so large, any college degree won't pay off. it used to be you can get anything and make more than a high school graduate. now paying tons for just the sake of saying you have a degree from a "good" school doesn't pay off.
i got the idea from this but i'm also bitter about what the perception vs reality is between colleges. in california.. the general thought is you go to a cal state if you can't go to a uc. my sister went to the best uc she could get into (at the time) and hated every minute of it. i went to a uc and hated the major options. after completing the sequence and talking to friends i know i made a horrible mistake.
also, if you're not doing something that requires a degree...maybe its better you just get an associates/trade school cert and avoid the huge debt collge has
edited to say.. this is mostly 2000 + era when the cost of a degree is so large, any college degree won't pay off. it used to be you can get anything and make more than a high school graduate. now paying tons for just the sake of saying you have a degree from a "good" school doesn't pay off.
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I've got three brothers with EE degrees and I think it's funny that I'm the only one who does any electrical engineering or even spends any quality time with a soldering iron. (I'm also the one in the family who hooks up the stereo/home theater systems for everybody else, too.)
I don't know how much of a difference it made, but I'm sure it didn't hurt that I entered a lot of science and math competitions during my senior year and did the science fair circuit. ACS has an annual competition for high schoolers and the science fairs are well-attended by companies and organizations looking to hand out awards (scholarships, cash prizes, and fancy-looking medals and plaques) to contestants who have projects relevant to their areas of interest. I don't think it looks bad on an application and those cash prizes are better than gift cards.
I need to push that kind of stuff with her NOW. When we lived in Oceanside, CA she took 3rd place in the Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair in plant sciences...but that was when she was in 6th grade. Her current extra curricular activities include Junior Classical League (Latin) & she recently attended a national journalism conference. While these are fine and dandy to add to her applications, I agree that she needs to become more involved in the area she wants to pursue academically. Thanks for the input!
To answer the bolded...google is your friend [hsf.net]. It would also be to your advantage to spell scholarship correctly too as applicants are required to have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA.
I'd say that is an advantage for her as she can apply for these scholarships in addition to all of the scholarships/grants that her Caucasian friends will be applying for.
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But yes I'm happy with my college decision and major.... Aviation Science / Aviation Management
To answer the bolded...google is your friend [hsf.net]. It would also be to your advantage to spell scholarship correctly too as applicants are required to have a minimum of a 3.0 GPA.
I'd say that is an advantage for her as she can apply for these scholarships in addition to all of the scholarships/grants that her Caucasian friends will be applying for.
Sbux, I
ETA: this [hsf.net]is a better link that lists all of the scholarships available.
not only is your dd half white. but shes not economically disadvantaged. why take money from people who NEED it. annnnnnddd before u tell me how to spell look and see how greedy you really are.
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college tuition has ballooned with benefits dwindling IMO. reputations aren't worth near enough unless you get a network to go with that has little to do with the education you receive.
At bare minimum, it makes a lot of sense to get a 2 year degree at community college, then transfer to a 4 year college if you really want a BS degree.
You are right, in the 80's/ early 90's, you could major in anything and it would be "worth it". Now, there's a lot of new college grads that can't find work, plus they have a mountain of debt.
Go Rockets!
I wanted to be an architect, and then I guess I came to the conclusion it was too much of a managerial type of job. I'm not a people-person. Then a school counselor called up her husband's architectural firm and we found a guy who did 3D modelling of buildings and the pay was really good. So that's what I wanted to do instead! I always wanted to design houses...
So I went to the crap-college, and when I graduated I talked to a lady at employment services with the school. She said most architectural firms won't hire drafters... I looked at her like
And my credits don't transfer. Anywhere.
I'm not happy.
Care to elaborate? There are some things I have done in senior design that I can't see myself doing in a job (reliability bsing etc).
One of my colleagues does technical writing for Harley Davidson. Holy smokes, most boring engineering job ever.
On the other hand, I find that my friends who have jobs related to their degrees are in places that specializes on something. For example, I know someone who works for Canon and they do R&D on CMOS sensors. Fun stuff right there.
Tell me more about this SD you got on your tuition?
Either way -- if I continue the path I am on, I have a projected forecast of being done with college-s by the time I am old enough to collect social security...and wouldn't that defeat the purpose of going through all this crap???
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