<p>I love the environment, engineering, and water quality, but I also love analyzing the things people think and why they think them. Possible college majors? Thanks. More info can be provided upon request. </p>
<p>Industrial or Environmental Engineering. Maybe Chemical since that deals with water quality too</p>
<p>Any insight about how you might think about the way people think in those majors/careers? Thanks for your help @ninjex</p>
<p>Consider Harvey Mudd as a college if you have the stats. Their mission statement:</p>
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<p>Thank you @intparent ! I was wondering if there is anywhere similar to Harvey Mudd on the east coast, with which you are familiar? Not that going west is out of the question, just more of a detractor for me. </p>
<p>Engineering and philosophy major? Perhaps a human resource consultant.</p>
<p>edit: if you are looking for a small LAC with a strong engineering major, Lehigh and Lafayette happen to be great choices along the east coast. Lafayette also has a good merit scholarship for those who qualify.</p>
<p>From my perspective, the two wants conflict. Engineering deals with inanimate objects, but working with people is more of a psychology, neurology type major. My perspective is limited but I don’t see a way to reconcile them since they are two different fields altogether. You could do hr at an engineering firm, but you won’t be doing any engineering. I chose the three engineering fields because they seem to be a larger want hence why they were listed first. Of course you could make one a job, and the other a hobby. </p>
<p>How much experience do you have with engineering? You sound like a curious sort; do you know how well this can serve you? </p>
<p>Engineers need to be inquisitive sorts, imo. That may be how these interests reconcile- not in the work but in your thinking and drive to understand. </p>
<p>And if you don’t like the rigors of engineering, you have an idea where to head. Also good. </p>
<p>ps. saw your list. You might also consider Brown, for its Open Curriculum.</p>
<p>@lookingforward I have a couple of engineering summer programs and a research internship in engineering as a basis for my interest in engineering. @shawnspencer thanks for the suggestions! Thank you again @ninjex. Do any of you have any thoughts about what it would be like doing engineering at UVa or an Ivy (other than Brown, not that I merely shunned that comment)? Feel free to also discuss others with that atmosphere if you have the chance. Thanks again for your help!</p>
<p>Anyone have thoughts on University of Delaware? </p>
<p>You have to think about people a lot when you’re a consulting engineer! You have to figure out what they really need, versus what they think they need. You have to make them understand why your services are worth X. You have to help them look good to their superiors. Etc., etc. I think we spend more time thinking about people than about designing beams or columns! A psychology degree would be helpful.</p>
<p>Also Olin College of Engineering? That was recommended on my other thread. Hadn’t given it a lot of thought but it is attracting me. I am attracted to the intellectual atmosphere of Brown and UChicago, as well as drawn to Yale…any engineering equivalents (or similar ones, of course)? </p>
<p>ThatMathysciGirl, my daughter who is at Harvey Mudd now was accepted to U of Chicago and Swarthmore, both very intellectual places. But she picked Mudd, and is almost deliriously happy. You asked if there is anyplace on the east coast like Mudd, but i have to say no… I have not really found anyplace like it.</p>
<p>Thank you @intparent ! It’s so hard to tell what schools would be a good fit for me…I wish I had a really knowledgeable guidance counselor who knew me well and could tell me, based on knowledge of colleges… :/</p>
<p>What do you think of Cooper Union in terms of fit for me? I’d be happy to tell more about my personality. </p>
<p>We visited Olin last week. Our student guide was a singing and dancing engineering student who took “haberdashery” as his Olin sponsored passionate pursuit. </p>
<p>Industrial Design as a major is popping into my head. It kinda’ straddles engineering and psychology in that it attempts to make engineered products appealing and easily useable.</p>
<p>I’m a highly curious, perceptive, and hard-working person in my opinion and in the opinion of others (I’ve been doing polls to help with my essays). I often notice things that other people don’t, and my teachers say I am “intellectual” and have a “beautiful mind.” I have a very good work ethic, as I took AP/IB courses last year–all IB with HL Maths, Chem, and English (our school’s max) and I did double-science in Physics while taking several online courses including AP Bio and APES. I’ve started a club and I hold leadership positions in several clubs. I come across as serious and observant to most people. I try to be very friendly but I’m not always the life of the party (lol, never) because of the way I interact with others. People often can’t tell whether I’m having fun (sometimes people think I never have any fun because it’s common for me to not be visibly excited about things). I love to learn new things and to challenge myself academically. I love to figure out people and things, and I love cats and the environment. Anything else specific requested? 
Just trying to provide as much info as possible. </p>
<p>This is what I had posted on my other thread concerning my personality. School suggestions? Major suggestions? Thanks!!</p>
<p>As an engineer, I often run into situations where I think “What is/was he/she thinking!?”</p>
<p>Have you looked at environmental engineering programs with a public policy slant? CMU’s Civ/Env + EPP program come to mind. Or just throw a pyschology double on one of those degrees. I’m thinking you could use your study of how people behave to enact large scale change.</p>