college not right for...... me plz help!, I don't know what to do anymore! Options

[soulshadow]

Ok guys please shine some advice on this one.

I've been in college at the University of Arkansas for 2 years now (this is my beginning 3rd year there) and I really don't know what to do anymore regarding my career and life. Ever since my car broke down and I swapped in the silvertop I felt some type of passion for cars that I can't really seem to explain. School just doesn't seem to be intresting anymore and none of the majors offered here don't intrest me at all. I just don't have the dedication towards college anymore!

Therefore I was thinking that I might drop out of college and go to a tech. school in automotive and search for that passion that longs the heart of mine.

What do you guys think? Should I presume my schooling even tho I am suffering deep inside, or should I get out and go towards automotive, a hidden passion that I have?

I have one dream and that is that someday I would build robots for a living and thats why I went towards Electrical Engineering, but this is only a dream. If it came real it wouldn't be a dream at all!

Please post any solutions that you have or any comments! Thanks 6G guys!

[orvillescelica]

If you really really find no interest in your major at all, then get out. Find another major, any other major. A college degree will always be there to fall back on. I know lots of people who realized that too late, finished their degree and are now doing nothing related to the degree that they got: Computer Engineers going back to school to go to med school, countless CS, Chem E, Mech E, Mat Sci, people going to Law school, getting their real estate license, nursing school, even dentist school.

But if you still find the idea of your major interesting, stay in!! Especially engineering, its tough. The classes are hard, you crunch numbers all night, spend your weekends in the lab, and all your hard work gets you average grades. But trust me, once you actually get out there and are able to focus, youll learn to re-love your major over again.

I was in Aerospace Engineering, and just like you, i was questioning if i should switch to something the nurtured my love of cars more. I would just get the work done, not always getting it done correctly, just so i could go do car stuff. Of course that gave me mediocre grades. But then i got an internship at the propulsion directorate research lab at edwards airforce base. Actually seeing everything come together, all the things i was learning actually being applied and make sense rejuvenated my love of my major. Senior year i flop a 4.0, and now im in grad school! If you told me sophomre year that id go to grad school for Aero, id say you were crazy. But here i am!

I bet if you actually get into building that robot of yours, youll find out why you chose your major in the first place. But if you dont, then youll at least know.