Forum traffic seems slow

[Chrry]

Also I'm clearly biased

Berkeley is on my coast so call me biased too.

 

[Lucken]

My first post in a while. Car remains awesome. Nothing else to report. Boring, I know.

You can always make up a problem.

 

[xponents]

You can always make up a problem.

"Because I had my one year service, I demanded a meet and greet with Peter Rawlinson, but they did not give it to me!! I am filing a class action lawsuit for this."

 

[DeaneG]

"Because I had my one year service, I demanded a meet and greet with Peter Rawlinson, but they did not give it to me!! I am filing a class action lawsuit for this."

If you go to one of the owner's events, it's actually quite easy to meet Peter. He's quite an enthusiast of both cars in general, and of his customers.

 

[borski]

If you go to one of the owner's events, it's actually quite easy to meet Peter. He's quite an enthusiast of both cars in general, and of his customers.

(This was an inside joke)

 

[borski]

Finance, actually, but as I have a lot of AP credits, I also plan to take a double major in a "passion" major too (although I haven't decided on which one yet)! I really like finance, but it's probably not something I'd want to do for ~40 years. I assume that something like architecture or automobile engineering would be incredibly fun/fulfilling for me, and since I have the "space" to fit it in my college schedule, there is no reason not to do them.

A suggestion: stay open minded to falling in love with a major you’d never considered, or had considered briefly. Too many students go in “knowing what they want to do” and a few years later discover “crap, I don’t love making this thing I love my job, and it’s nothing like what I thought it would be”

I studied CS, but also theater/music, and took a bunch of classes in psychology. My best friend switched from chemical engineering to CS in junior year.

Stay open minded; it will serve you well, I promise.

 

[tonybot]

"Because I had my one year service, I demanded a meet and greet with Peter Rawlinson, but they did not give it to me!! I am filing a class action lawsuit for this."

I see a future CEO in the making!!

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

A suggestion: stay open minded to falling in love with a major you’d never considered, or had considered briefly. Too many students go in “knowing what they want to do” and a few years later discover “crap, I don’t love making this thing I love my job, and it’s nothing like what I thought it would be”

I studied CS, but also theater/music, and took a bunch of classes in psychology. My best friend switched from chemical engineering to CS in junior year.

Stay open minded; it will serve you well, I promise.

I was amazed at how many successful, happy folk I've met who went to college to study engineering.
None of them are engineers now ... a few even completed their degrees.
My son completed a ChE degree at Rennselaer, his masters at Cornell, and now works for the National Ski Patrol at Killington for minimum wage.
He's pretty darned happy.

 

[Pragmatic]

As a recently retired engineer I see this alot. The engineering career path includes a fairly high starting salary and a fairly low long term salary. This causes people who are good at math and science to take it as a major thi king they will make alot of money.

Some end up being great engineers who get frustrated at the lack of advancement and leave the field. Others while good at math and science have little feel for the processes (mechanical, chemical, structural, etc.) outside of the classroom and are unhappy in engineering. Others accept the lowish pay and get their rewards from seeing how their innovative thinking has improved processes and designs.

 

[DeaneG]

My own opinion is that the best engineers are more comfortable working with things than with people, and are deeply interested in the basic sciences that describe how things work together. I didn't know any engineers who left their field, though two IP lawyer friends did. One path for an engineer who realizes they don't like dealing with detail and prefer people (and so are better with them) is to move into an engineering management role, sideways into marketing, etc.

It can be very rewarding to create something that didn't exist before, with a team of capable people whose company you generally enjoy.

You can be quite comfortable on an engineering salary. But most of my friends and neighbors who have moved beyond comfortable into wealthy did intentionally by choice of employer - they formed their own startup company that happened to succeed, or joined someone else's rapidly joining startup. There is an element of chance to either. If you don't take some chances, then you are likely to have an average result.

 

[Bobby]

Thank you! It seems pretty easy, and based on my PSAT, an attainable score would be a 1550.

As for schools, I already have a full list of which ones I want to apply to, but because I obviously don't know my grades for next year, it'll be pretty hard to determine which are "target" schools or reach schools. However, at this rate, I can reasonably infer that some targets include UC Berkeley (Haas), NYU (Stern), and UMich (Ross).

My son went to University of Michigan. He loved it there.

 

[Cosmo Cruz]

My own opinion is that the best engineers are more comfortable working with things than with people,

 

[DeaneG]

The engineer on the right worked for me for ten years. Or someone who looked exactly like him - seriously

I'll freely admit to being much better with things than with people!