Worried About Work Load and Social Life

BruceJuice
Fri, 28 Dec 2012 00:12:45 +0000

I recently started thinking about majoring in mechanical engineering. However I am somewhat worried about how the work load may affect my social life. I’m not trying to be lazy here. I actually had a few personal issues and had to start college late. I had to take some refresher classes because I did no sort of math or science while I was away from school. Anyway my personal problem had me socially isolated for a very long time. I didn’t actually have much social interaction for years other than occasional outings and it led to me having a lot of hangups. Things have gotten better now and I have gotten rid of most of my problems but I’m worried that if I do major in mechanical engineering that I end up being isolated again.

I was really excited about finding something I wanted to do and understood that I would always have to give up time to study. But I have read a lot about engineering majors spending more time than most studying the material and that worries me. I have a serious hangup about isolating myself like that again and I’m worried that I could run into health problems. I feel strongly about majoring in mechanical engineering but I’m not sure if I can do something that would put me into a similar situation again.

I don’t mean to complain but those years were terrible and just the thought of going through something like that again worries me. I’m not really sure what to do. I want to major in mechanical engineering but the social issue is giving me pause. It may seem like a trivial thing to most but I feel like I “wasted” a lot of my life being alone and I don’t know if I can handle much of that again. Yeah I’m only 23 but I reckon these years are just as valuable as the ones when I turn 33…

I could really use some advice on how I should decide what to do.