| Thanks for all the advice so far. I've tried talking to her and showed that I'm still serious about working hard in college and getting a good job when I get out by looking up good study abroad programs that can give me good experiences and trying to slowly research big name companies that might hire a sophomore for a summer internship next year so I can start applying in the fall and stalk them when they get on campus for OCR.
I'm starting to think that this is mostly because I dropped premed. She really really wants me to become a doctor (her dream). I think she pushed me to be an engineer because if I don't have the grades/MCAT score to get into med school it still offers a good job compared to a bio or chem major. The easiest way for her to have justified me not going into medicine would have been going to Wharton because that is the path of least resistance to getting a good job out of college. I'm sure she'll get over it sooner or later. |