Question about College

"Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna" (lukielauxd) 12/16/2013 at 00:18 • Filed to: None

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I have a question. Do I have to like the subjects I take to survive in a certain major? I'm majoring in Petroleum Engineering right now, and I'm not one of those people that see a plant and immediately want to think of all the chemicals it's made out of, the forces of gravity that Jupiter is acting upon it, or some Engineering example. Like I took my easier finals and my Chemistry, Physics and Calculus finals are smashed together within a 48 hour period and I'm just ready to stab someone soon but I spent like 3 years of high school lying to myself that the money is worth the major to the point that I don't want to take any other major.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 00:25

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It's a tough road to travel getting an entire degree without enjoying the classes you're taking. I'm not one for thinking that you have to absolutely love what you're doing, because that's not realistic, but it's tough to see a career lasting if you don't enjoy the subject and work in the very least. At that point, you've paid a lot of money for a degree that you're not going to get the full use of, and that's an expensive proposition.

Jayhawk Jake > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 00:25

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I take it you mean your general coursework and not the engineering classes? If so then no, you don't need to like them. I fucking hated most of mine, especially chemistry and physics II. Most of my math classes were horrible too. I however currently have a degree in aerospace engineering and a solid job in the industry, so clearly I survived.

Just focus on the application of those classes. That's why you're an engineering major and not a physics major. Most engineers don't need nearly as complex of a background in the basic subjects, it's more important to understand the concepts and theories that apply to your area specifically. Get through it, it'll get more interesting when you tie it all to cool engineering stuff.

phenotyp > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 00:25

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Nope, you don't have to like them. But it's worthwhile to know about them. And, honestly, the courses that look back on most fondly were wildly unrelated to my majors, and have been the most valuable in my "career."

YSI-what can brown do for you > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 00:29

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No. Otherwise I would be forced to like English...

Anon > YSI-what can brown do for you 12/16/2013 at 00:51

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"Heard you were talking shit."

M54B30 > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 01:02

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No. It'd help but it's not necessary. I wanted to study nursing but be in law enforcement. I sat through my criminal justice classes (arguably, pretty easy classes) and while we learned how to pepper spray people hands-on, nursing students were drowning in math and chemistry classes. How the body works and how to fix it always intrigued me, but I'm more interested in breaking it then fixing it.

Weird, huh? Yeah, I know.

Birddog > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 01:03

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Nobody likes the courses they were forced to take outside of their Major.
Suck it up. It'll pay off.
Even if you wind up in a career that isn't related.

Scorpio GTX1 > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 01:13

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No. My entire undergrad was spent studying social and clinical psychology. Now I'm doing neuroscience.

Squid > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 02:36

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Petroleum engineering is going to be mainly revolving around organic chemistry I would assume, I don't know as I'm working on my chemistry degree right now, but you don't have like the required prerequisite classes for your degree. You probably should have some interest in your core classes for your degree though. The physics and calculus will help you understand the theory behind your main classes but not liking your upper division classes will be tough.

Tomorrow I have my calc and o-chem finals back to back, talk about fun times.

shpuker > Luke's Dad Sold His 2000TL To Get a Sienna 12/16/2013 at 03:45

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I'll put it this way, there is a reason some fields pay astronomical amounts of money. Engineering is no different. Calc sucks, but it's massively useful when dealing with complex design. Physics sucks, but.... Well it's physics and engineering is basically just applied physics, some useful shit once you can grasp the concepts of it. But Petroleum engineering is quite a lot harder than a lot of other engineering (I'm looking at you civil engineers), including my chosen sector, mechanical. However while I do find these courses hard, once I start to understand them I'm about as happy as can be, and that certainly makes it a lot easier to major in it.