I’ve been thinking about my career path lately because of my failure with nursing school. That event literally crippled my ability and confident as a student. I’m currently a business major but I’ve always wanted to try engineering. Petroleum or Chemical at that. I have an interest in science and math. I excel at both, granted, I was never the best student in chemistry, physics or calculus class but I did better than most in high school. Should I try out engineering or should I stick with business ?
What was hard for you in nursing school? I’m not saying it’s easy what I mean is what if something in nursing school was to hard and chemical engineering might be harder
And why Chemical Engineering? I find a majority of CC students saying they want major in Chem E. It’s the most difficult of all the engineering disciplines.
To add to the other comments, the chemical engineering program at Pitt is very, very difficult. The structure of the courses is different from other majors, even within engineering. They use a “core-based” curriculum where you have one big 6-credit core class every term (which gets progressively harder each semester) with labs and other classes on the side. Some of the classes are GPA based, meaning if your GPA is higher you have a better chance of being in a good group for group-work for that semester. You can see how it can be a bit of a competitive/difficult environment, you are required to do well to survive as a student. I’d suggest talking to someone in the ChemE Department (ideally a senior who has been through it for a while) and see if it is truly a good fit for you or not.