[sdiy] OT : School.

[ben]

sounds a bit like myself, started doing my bachelor engineering course bout
7 years ago, but dropped out after 2 years. was really good at math (A's)
and science(A's) at high school, and faired ok at uni, but struggled to stay
interested in the theory because I always excelled at hands on stuff like
workshop (A+'s) (its so much easier to be motivated when you can hold a
working project). I finished a BSc, but ended up working in a dead end
factory job unrelated to that bit of paper. I'm now studying again at
technical college, had the soldering iron out in the first week i started,
and am loving every bit of it and am top of the class (being part of this
list helps lots).

dunno how i'm going to fair getting a job though.

on 6/11/02 4:38 PM, Doug Terrebonne at bigfootstudios at yahoo.com wrote:

> All I can add is my personal experience but I got an ASEE a little over 10
> years ago and didn't every finish my BSEE because of all the classes I would
> have had to take that I had absolutely no interest in like Statics/Dynamics (I
> have no interest in building bridges thank you!), lots more math, more
> programming (which I care for), etc... Even the electronics classes I had were
> so steeped in math and theoretical stuff I couldn't stand it... I just wanted
> to get in there and start building stuff and see how it worked - hands on... I
> realized I had wasted a lot of time and money going for a BSEE when what I
> really wanted was a technical degree...
> 
> Doug
> 
> 
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