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Dont worry about stroking your ego. The only person you have to impress is you. Something like 80% of all egineering majors change their course of study because they cant hack it so OP if you can even finish the program then that should be enough for you.
If you really want to test your metal then do the biomedical engineering program at any major university. I have a friend at ASU that was an EE major during his undergrad and is doing biomedical for his MS. They are working on designing microbots that can be injected into your bloodstream to repair tissue damage as well as kill diseases (kinda like tiny little mechanical white blood cells). Truely amazing!!!!!
Diffeq is not that important for CS, but discrete and finite math can be a real skull buster.
I really enjoyed discrete . I told one of my professors that if I could get a job doing boolean algebra all day and get paid $25/hr for then I'd gladly take it.
For one, there's no reason you have to get a degree solely for getting a job. There's nothing wrong with learning for the sake of learning. Second, in my experience getting a high GPA isn't about making yourself feel good it's more of an internal motivation and expectation that you have about yourself. Generally, high GPA people already feel pretty good about themselves.
Diffeq is not that important for CS, but discrete and finite math can be a real skull buster.
you mean infinite math, right? CS uses infinite math while Engineers use finite. But finite math has been taught since kindergarten. Infinite math would be more abstract to most people. Unless i've forgotten the definitions and switched them up
I do it because I get bored easily. Also don't let the high gpas fool you, a lot of students will drop classes and switch professors around to keep their gpa high.
rationally, i know that college degrees should be gotten for one reason and one reason only: to help you achieve the job that you want.
But i always get this urge to want to major in something really impressive and get a really impressive gpa in that, even though if the career path isn't necessarily the one i want. I want it make myself feel good enough. I see some people with computer science or engineering with gpa 3.87, and i just feel so bad about myself (in engineering , this is much more rare, but it is quite common in CS, even though CS is quite a hardcore major too, esp at selective schools). If i could get a good gpa in these hardcore,innovative majors, i would feel good enough...or at least that is the mentality/motivation behind it
Is this normal/common to want to get a degree with super high gpa just for to stroke your ego, even if you know it is irrational?
how could i be more rational toward this ?
I would not waste the time or money for something that is useless before it is even earned.
rationally, i know that college degrees should be gotten for one reason and one reason only: to help you achieve the job that you want.
Hmm. Seriously? Rationally, I know that college degrees should be gotten for one reason only, to learn something. How can a 21 year old know what job they will want at 40 or 50? That job probably hasn't even been invented yet.
The only people I have ever met whose careers were decided in college are doctors and engineers. All the rest went through quite a few twists and turns.
Hmm. Seriously? Rationally, I know that college degrees should be gotten for one reason only, to learn something. How can a 21 year old know what job they will want at 40 or 50? That job probably hasn't even been invented yet.
The only people I have ever met whose careers were decided in college are doctors and engineers. All the rest went through quite a few twists and turns.
I disagree. I honestly wouldn't have gone to college if I could land my job (and climb up the ranks) without a degree. Most jobs will train you what you need to know. I think ideally, college degrees should be gotten to learn something, but realistically we want a return on our investment. If we didn't see the return, we likely wouldn't invest (time/money).
I knew I wanted to work in advertising in high school and at 26 y/o I'm still in that field and most likely will be at 40/50 (assuming I'm not retired by then )
In life you will come to understand that all this stuff your talking about doesn't really amount to anything.
You can major in whatever you want the key is what are you going to make of it. Some majors push your very limits and forces you to change and adapt to the situation. This is a very important skill-set to have in this jungle we call life. Other majors you easily breeze by with little effort. This translates to those who have a very difficult time finding employment and managing life's challenges.
I am a degreed mechanical engineer with an MBA and have learned this changing and adapting skill-set. You can put me in any situation and I will find mine and my teams way out of it and into a brighter path. That is what I learned and what companies pay me the salary that I command. Not because of my GPA when I graduated college which I admit wasn't even a 3.0 gpa. It is my determination, drive, leadership, and results that matter.
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. I told one of my professors that if I could get a job doing boolean algebra all day and get paid $25/hr for then I'd gladly take it.
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