<p>I am a two time ISEF finalist so most people say I should be an engineer which I kind of enjoy… but i honestly have no idea what I want to be</p>
<p>I want a nice lifestyle, but more importantly and interesting education and ability to travel A LOT . not even to a bunch of different places but I dont want to stay in the US.</p>
<p>I switch from everything from engineering majors to english to economics to comp sci.</p>
<p>I just want to be able to live in like brazil or costa rica or maybe europe.</p>
<p>what should i do? just go to college and see? im a senior in hs</p>
<p>So you know what you want, but have no clue on how to get it.</p>
<p>I suspect the standard answer is to go to a college that has an Engineers Without Borders program. You don’t need to be an engineer to participate. I’m not a fan of English majors unless you want to be an English teacher. Price of colleges being what it is, there’s no Return on Investment. You can do it as a hobby.</p>
<p>If you’re not committed to being an engineer, a good engineering school will sniff it out. Soph year especially is when many are “weeded out”. But by then, you’re thousands of dollars in the hole, and could’ve bought 3 cars and travelled the world with the cash you’d have wasted.</p>
<p>So, my honest answer is: You’re not ready for college. As a public service, let someone else take the seat that you’d probably waste in your current state. If your parents have a college fund for you, ask them if you instead could use it for travel and self-discovery, with the condition that if college is in your future plans, you are on your own. Even if they say no, you are no worse off than you are now. Nothing to lose.</p>
<p>ROTC: You’ll attend college at taxpayer expense with a variety of colleges to choose from. Eventually, you will study abroad at one of those countries’ leading institutions. You will end up being stationed there or another country for, I believe, a minimum of two years.</p>
<p>Now here’s another plan that you won’t get anywhere else: If you are a very good soccer player, you can tryout for an academy team (such as IMG in Bradenton, Florida). If you are good enough, you will attend college (there’s an in-house program and a CC down the road) and travel across the country and abroad. It’s a longshot, but things like that do exist.</p>
<p>Travel A LOT? Perhaps take a job as a flight attendant at an airline for a while… though the international routes may not be easy to bid for since they tend to be desired by the more senior flight attendants.</p>
<p>You may want to consider going to community college, where the costs are lower and the institutional pressure to decide on a major quickly is less. Then transfer to a four year university when you have decided.</p>
<p>At Michigan they push for study abroad a lot for engineers so they probably do that elsewhere as well. </p>
<p>Be a consultant engineer or a project manager or something.</p>
<p>I feel pressure to go to a 4 year uni because i have a 4.3 and 32 act. which may not be great on cc but i have the ability to go to a uni. so i dont know really</p>
<p>If you have the financial means I would go</p>
<p>@goalsetter11111</p>
<p>There is no such thing as being “too smart” for community college. I just want to put that out there, b/c you can still transfer to elite schools from community colleges. I know many who have.
But yes I do see why you feel that kind of pressure. I went to a private college prep high school and struggled with that. </p>
<p>It’s up to you, but remember your first two years at Uni. you don’t really have to declare your major.
Good luck.</p>