Ga Tech or dual degree at Oglethorpe

G.P.Burdell
Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:09:17 +0000

By the second degree being worthless, I mean only from a job perspective. If you want to be hired as an Electrical Engineer, the company won’t weigh your B.S. Math into the equation, for instance. They just care that you have a BSEE.

From a personal stand point, it’s of course a good thing to be proud of your success and to connect yourself to another school (particularly if you like that other school).

And my comment about social interaction - sometimes people like to start out at smaller school (where there’s more interaction with faculty, other students, etc.) make friends then, move to a large school. My only concern is that people then sometimes fall back to the old set of friends and use them as a reason to not interact with people at the new school (which is the same reason I will not let my kids live at home while in college). In my opinion, it’s especially important in the engineering and CS fields to make friends with people at Tech and in your major in order to get through classes. I couldn’t imagine trying to “go it alone” studying for some of my finals and working on major projects.