College Options

[bojangles_8686]

Alright so I have been taking gen ed classes and now I am taking engineering classes but dont think I want to do engineering anymore. It is hard for me to keep up with all the formulas and conversions and equations because Im not much of a math guy. I was talking to a friend who is going to goto Art Institue of Washington for Graphic Desgn, and really got into it. I have always had a thing for drawing and editing pictures on the computer, but never thought of making a career out of it. Now heres the decision...

Do you think I should really take a look at this Graphic Design and stop trying for engineering? Also, this Art Institute costs around the same as the college I was planning on for engineering.

Any input would be appreciated..

[wuhukf]

Yea, I was an electrical engineering major who wanted a minor in business. After taking some engineering courses, it just wasn't what I expected. I like to work with people and go around and be in charge of things. I got a co-op position with NASA to help build one of their ground control systems and I thought it was going to be cool, but it was so insanely boring and took up so much of my time. But that's just my opinion, I know people who love doing it too. My major is now business, either general business, finance, or accounting, can't quite decide yet. My suggestion is just find out what you really like to do by trying it out. I wasted a year's worth of money and time by going to an engineering college, but at least now I know what I want to do. Just like how you took some engineering courses, take some graphic design courses too and see how you like them. However, take them at a community college or general university first because that way if you don't like it, you won't be stuck at a school focusing on that subject. It might not seem so bad because you can always transfer out, but generally people don't try hard or care about something they end up not liking. This means you might get bad grades and when you want to transfer, of course you need to boost up your GPA. However, you can only do that by taking the same/similar courses over again and pretty much you waste more time/money. Trust me, don't jump right in, test the water first .