If you can reset your own education, how would do it and what will you choose?

[SphinxnihpS]

Yeah, like I'm sure people with 50000 $ literature degrees are doing real well now.

^_^

At least they can create a resume that wouldn't get them instantly disqualified from consideration.

-_-

I would definitely take even more worthless electives and trashy writing classes. I would ask Thomas E. Kennedy to marry me and take me back to Denmark. I would have made friends with even more teachers. I would bother with physics, computer science, and engineering. I would triple major, and Egregia. I wouldn't be nearly as obsessed with 4.0.

I would smell a few more Roses... and Janices, and Brittanys.

 

[nageov3t]

Yeah, like I'm sure people with 50000 $ literature degrees are doing real well now.

^_^

I'm doing alright

99% of the communications I have with clients is through email. it's pretty vital that I'm able to write clearly and effectively.

I've actually had 2 IT jobs where I was tasked with rewriting form letter templates. it's (a little) fun.

 

[mesthead21]

I would have tried harder in high school and taken some more advanced math classes when I had better teachers. It sucked being behind in engineering before school even started

 

[HAL9000]

I'd go back and do everything exactly the same, aside from that, I'd stick with how I did it. It was awesome.

 

[nanette1985]

I'd do it the same way.

However, if I had to do it again under today's cimcumstances, I probably wouldn't go to school at all. My degrees are in music and CS. In my day I worked thru music school - you can't do that any more, and the top conservatories are much more "glamorous" than they were back then - and hugely more expensive. Ridiculous.

I got the CS degrees because my then-employer paid for them. I was already a self-taught programmer, enjoyed the CS classes and the folks I met but the work experience was far more important.

 

[TridenT]

Different schools all the way. Only top tier private schools in affluent areas.

 

[Jeff7]

I'm doing alright

99% of the communications I have with clients is through email. it's pretty vital that I'm able to write clearly and effectively.

I've actually had 2 IT jobs where I was tasked with rewriting form letter templates. it's (a little) fun.

Some of the e-mails I see at at work are a bit "interesting" in that department as well.
My vocabulary also draws comments from time to time, though throughout the years, I've effectively implemented semi-conscious mental filters to watch the words I use in that respect. Without them, I would end up sound even more pedantic, nerdy, and longwinded. ^_^ The downside is that it can add some delays to my speech, as I repeatedly pause for word selection, so as to construct some sentences that at least attempt to come close to approximating the originating thought.

 

[chusteczka]

I would not change having gone to a community college but would change the university I went to.

I would not get married while in college.

I would reconsider my choice of major in engineering/computer science. Some classes were extremely easy for me such as: chemistry, accounting, and finance. I did very well in math and computer science but they were not easy for me. This lead to accomplishments in math and computer science being very rewarding for me where the same level work in the easier subjects was less rewarding.

Even as one of the best students in the class, the proofs and higher level theory in math and computer science sometimes felt just out of reach of my understanding and I wish I had realized this sooner. There came a point in the higher level classes at the university where I struggled with the theory in math and computer science. Now, I have a strong competency level in the practical aspect of computer science but not the theoretical and this leads to knowledge advancement opportunities seeming like a struggle. Sometimes, I wonder if things would be easier in chemistry or finance but remain happy having achieved an engineering degree.

The opportunity remains to obtain a master's degree in chemistry or finance and I do consider it, especially since I have three years more of free education offered by my state in veteran's benefits. Life seems to have gotten in the way and I am now developing products with a partner for our own business that an MBA degree would help to sell. It would be difficult to step out now for more schooling but the opportunity may yet present itself.

 

[Pollock]

i wish i had more seriously considered computer engineering or computer science instead of mechanical engineering.

 

[Beev]

I was the first person in my family to go to school, and because of that I had to figure everything out myself. Tuition, where to live, getting student loans, etc., and if I could go back to... maybe freshman year of high school I would do a LOT of things different. No sense dwelling on the past, though. Learn from it and move on.

 

[Saint Nick]

This is a tough one. There are a ton of things I would do differently, but its way too hard to pick one, so I'm just going to say I wouldn't change anything.

 

[krunchykrome]

If I could go back, I would probably either pursue a career in the military.

 

[TecHNooB]

wish i studied harder in highschool.

 

[polarmystery]

I wish I would have studied harder, and either became an orthopedic doctor, or majored in biomechanical engineering.

 

[nickbits]

I wish I became a pathologist.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

I'm about to graduate with my CIS degree.

I think I have found my calling though in the health, sports nutrition, and exercise fields. I'm not sure if it's just something that I'm enjoying because it's still "new" to me and I'm learning a ton about it. I also thought about going into engineering and kind of wish I had kept with that instead of CIS, although I enjoy CIS too. Meh I'm all over the place haha.

 

[vi edit]

I would have went to med school and focused on radiology. Not sure if I'd go so far as doing interventional stuff, but basic radiology for sure.

 

[Kirby]

EE/ECE with minor in CS instead of CS major with math minor

 

[PingSpike]

Probably not a lot different. I might have gone software engineering instead, but honestly I just wish I had taken more math and software engineering courses as my electives instead of stuffing the electives with fluff classes. I was working on a GPA goal, but honestly I'd rather have more knowledge in those subjects today than my now largely irrelevant GPA.

I had a similar experience to loki with math. I more or less hated it in high school and felt I just sucked at it. In college I was much more driven but also had a really great math teacher who's style I meshed with. I'm actually thinking of going back and taken the math I pussied out on since I have tuition reimbursement.

 

[purbeast0]

i would have gone to another school, probably University of Hawaii just so I could live there.

 

[LOL_Wut_Axel]

Yes, I would. Because of my mom's stupidity I had to go to more than eight schools throughout my lifetime. It fucking sucked. Now I'm going to my second year of college and I've lost interest and motivation.