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I feel like I want to change my field of study
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Fiel Wrote:Digipen
Not sure I follow.

Eosian Wrote:Keep muddling through it because the real life applications are nothing like the classes and you need the degree to get those.
Boohoo it's tough and/or boring. Welcome to life. We deal with the crap to get the fun.

It's not tough or boring. It's pretty easy and it's moderately satisfying to see the results. It it's just...I dunno it doesn't catch my interest as much as I used to think it did, and to be honest, Computer Science isn't as coveted as a degree as it used to be.
Any tech geek nowadays can get one, and chances are you won't end up getting to be a major programmer for some big corp just by showing the flashy degree.

aslemn Wrote:Not everything in college is good, you don't necessarily study what you like only.
Don't abandon it, keep telling yourself you must continue until you finish it. There are a few subjects in school too, you can expect some to be in college.
But when you finish it, you'll be able to work on what you like, every subject of college works like this, just keep working in it. :o
That's exactly what, even if I changed my major, I'd still be studying other things that I'm not completely interested in, only it'd be different subjects. It doesn't have to do with what I don't want to study, but it has more to do with the big picture of what I'm trying to get out of all this studying. >_>

Khoi Wrote:See, that's the thing with college. You're not really studying what you like to do, more-so, studying something that lets you make a decent amount of money while still somewhat enjoying your job. As of last year, I was thinking about switching my major too, but then it'd be a waste of time. I know my own strengths and weaknesses, and I must say that programming is not my forte, though I do enjoy other aspects of the Computer Science field. I always have fun somehow when reading up on IPV4, 6, or if there's new routers and switches. I love my networking stuff.

I'm still going to stick with it until the end, because this is something I love, even if there are some things I'm not so good at. Such as . . . math.

I feel like a plantain for saying this but money isn't really the issue to me. I mean, yeah I'd like to get a job where I can sustain myself and possibly a girlfriend(or further) but I'm not doing this to make the most amount of money as possible while only possibly somewhat enjoying my work . I'm doing this to fully enjoy what I'm doing while still having a viable, supportable career selection.

If I recall, the other subjects I enjoy (Bio and Writing) have good career choices where you'll still make a decent amount given your time + effort, though not as much as CS, and the overall career choices are rather limited.

Meh, I'll see what I feel like at the end of this quarter. :/
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I feel like I want to change my field of study - by Baklava - 2011-03-06, 02:26 AM

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