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post #16 of 22
11/18/07 at 8:31pm
I definitely do not have buyers remorse although I had a long fight with my university over a student teacher saying I cheated when I had the same procedure for a lab report that my partner did. He even said that he copied mine and that I had nothing to do with it BUT I didn't even feel that was cheating. It said in the first part of the lab that you are supposed to work with your partner on the reports. If you are working with the partner what in the hell is wrong with having the same damn procedure if you do the same thing???? It ended up coming down to getting a 60 on the project but the lab averaged in with the class and that project was 1 of 12 so I still made an A in the class and they only have (a, b, c, d or f no plus or minus scale) so it was fine and it did not go in my record. I work part-time with our admissions department (my bigger job is with a development company and I'm still in school) and I looked over my records completely to make sure they didn't lie to me and put it in. I'm a senior and overall I am very glad that I chose to come to school here. All of my good friends that recently graduated in either of my majors (accounting, financial management) have gotten their top choice out of school and I have a better resume than most of them so I should be fine.
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post #17 of 22
11/18/07 at 10:53pm
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Originally Posted by letmebefell View Post
Well, you knew that coming in

Nope, the Dean (and probably some of the faculty) lied about the student body. I won't go into details.

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post #18 of 22
11/19/07 at 12:56am
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I don't know any happy engineers. :P

I have a friend that went to the unversity of waterloo, the top engineering and CS school in canada, and he pursued a fine arts masters after he was done. This was the type of kid that was playing with oscillascopes when he was 16. I knew another brilliant guy that loved chemistry and went in to chemical engineering. He also switched. It seems every engineer I speak to has regrets.

Dammit. I think you may be right. My little engineering group are the only engineers in the firm who don't look completely miserable all the time, a fact I 'blame' on our awesome manager.

I have always held (and frequently wrote about in the aforementioned elective classes) that the best engineers hold a special blend of creative, artistic thinking along with the science, so I am not surprised about that polar change in career. I planned on being an engineer or a chef, so....

~ Huntsman
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post #19 of 22
11/24/07 at 11:50pm
I went to a top rated science and engineering school and got my ass kicked. So now I'm in a job that uses my degree background but mixes it with other professional skills, in the hopes that putting this on my resume will help me transition over to something different. My remorse comes from thinking about what would have happened if I had gone to a slightly less difficult school, with more degree options. Have I wasted several years of my life because I'm taking a roundabout path? As a counter to the previous posters though, I know my fair share of people who do love engineering, and have zero regrets about pursuing it (although to be honest, these are really brilliant kids who seem made for a career in science).
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post #20 of 22
11/26/07 at 11:35am
I'm feeling a little of that buyer's remorse right now. I've been studying in the Alps in France for the last couple of months and I have to admit that the school is quite retarded. We have 35 hours of class/week in which 0 work is done, nobody respects homework deadlines and I feel like I'm actually loosing knowledge instead of gaining knowledge here. As this is my year abroad, I was hoping that it would have either been long and easy or short and difficult, but I guess I was wrong. Also, due the the French grading system, it's fairly likely that I'll get rejected by mu first choices of grad schools. Oh well, I guess this gives me time to reflect on what I really want from life and I'll definitely get the chance to catch up on my posts in class. The only people that I feel truly sorry for are the people that are paying full ticket price for this school and coming out with lower prospects than a canadian going to what was supposed to be the Conrad Black School of Business.
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post #21 of 22
11/26/07 at 12:25pm
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Also, due the the French grading system, it's fairly likely that I'll get rejected by mu first choices of grad schools.


If it makes you feel any better, the French grading system seems to be widely known and it basically takes one letter of recommendation from your French prof explaining your grades to get past that. I ran into this when looking at applicants for an honor society for which I sat on the advisory board. But I quickly learned through letters (and two foreign lang. profs on the board (one French)) that those grades from French schools should be viewed differently. You may find the same thing when applying for grad school.

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post #22 of 22
11/27/07 at 12:10pm
Thanks, that makes me feel quite a bit better, although it should be interesting this year getting over the quality/method of the teaching.
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