So first off I’d like to introduce myself. My name is Seth and I’m new to this forums. I’m currently a 4th semester student (end of 2nd year) in California. I went straight to a local community college after graduating high school so that I could get my General Education out of the way and save some money at the same time.
I’m getting kind of freaked out because it’s already my 4th semester and I will be finishing up all of my general ED after this semester and I still am not sure of what I want to do. Back in High School and pretty much all my life all I did was stay home and play video games, I didn’t care about anything else and now that’s coming back to bite me because I have no idea about what I’m passionate about or what I want to do for the rest of my life.
The only thing that’s given me some sort of path is that I love technology and business. Though I don’t want to major in business (not yet anyway, maybe later down the road), so that leaves me with my love of technology. Going off of this I have been heading in a career for engineering. I want to work with creating hardware and software that deals with virtual reality like the oculus rift, robotics, and anything in that type of field. This is all I know and like I said it worries me because I’m not sure if I will regret it later that I didn’t look more into everything.
Is there anything I CAN do to figure out what I’m passionate about or should I just stick with my gut and go with my technology based major? I’m leaning towards (Computer Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Mechatronics, and Robotics) though I haven’t settled on one yet because they are so related that I can’t seem to find a major difference between them and that’s holding me back.
I would appreciate any input that you guys could send my way.
Have you taken any of the CS or engineering prerequisites yet? Use http://www.assist.org to find what courses you need for CS and engineering majors at various UC and CSU campuses. Taking those courses could indicate how interested you will be in such fields.
Hey, thanks for the input!
I use Assist.org to find all the classes I need to take and stuff like that.
However, the college I go to only has the basic classes and does not have any of the prerequisites for my engineering courses other than the standard math, physics etc… After finishing my GE and all the math/physics courses it seems I will be transferring out and only have engineering classes left due to the lack of such classes at my community college. I’m sure I could take some of them at a nearby college to see if it interests me.
If anyone else has any advice I would love to hear it!
Have you researched business computing majors? data management? computer networking?
Check out these links. They are a detailed and reliable source of career information.
Perhaps if other community colleges in your area have frosh/soph level engineering and CS courses, you could take those to get an idea of whether you like those subjects, and perhaps get subject credit for transfer purposes.
You don’t have to be passionate about something to major in it. You don’t need to be looking for passion per se - you only need to be looking for something that you like and can enjoy and maybe start your career out in. Since you like technology/computers/engineering, exploring a major in that is a good idea. The ones you suggested are fine; you might also think about computer science.
Thanks everyone for the great info. I’m confident that I will major in something technology based. I guess I just gotta narrow it down some more. I’ll do a bit more research and then pop on back over here to ask some more questions.
Thanks for the help!
