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jayncanada
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I need some serious adivice for my future..engineers, math people please help me :(
Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and this is my first post. After searching long and hard on the internet, i finally found this haven where all the engineers and math people gather. I am here for some sincere help...about what to do with my life and academic path.
Right now, I just finished my second year university majoring in marketing and accounting. However, something inside me keeps bugging me…
3 years ago, during my last year in high school, i took chemistry and calculus. Unfortunately, due to sad family and personal events, (deaths of friends and family members) affected my marks greatly. I failed calc with a 40% and passed chem. With only 50ish%..thats when my dream of becoming an electrical engineer vanished. Well, I made up for my failed calculus in summer school much later in the year and scored a 84% which took me a lot of effort. Well, with my crappy mark in chem (requirement for engineering) and botched calc. I took the rest of my high school courses in non math and science area and applied to a business program.
Luckily, I know a few good mentors from AMD (www.amd.com) and nVidia who are exceptionally bright electrical engineers. I had summer jobs at both companies in their marketing department. Well, majority of the employees from that 2 companies are EEs and I think this experience further strengthened my dream of getting a degree in EE.
Since entering university, I haven’t taken math or science course and my skills in them are getting rusty..i know engineering programs are very demanding in those two areas and I am willing to DO WHATEVER IT takes to brush up my skills. I am not very bright in math…it takes some effort for me to understand and grasp the concept.
Here is my plan:
• Since I am already halfway done the current degree, I may as well finish it.
• In the meantime, I’ll start a crusade on my own to learn and practice the match and science to prepare myself and try to make up for missing high school credit for the engineering program
• After I graduate in 2007, I’ll try to apply to the part-time engineering program at University of Toronto while working
It may take many many years..and by the time I finish this business degree, I will be 22 years old. Heck..i am still young, why let my dream fade!
So guys, are my plan possible or wild dreams? I’ve never been good in math..but yet I don’t want to let go my electrical engineering dream. What does it take to prepare myself NOW in order to survive? Again, I am willing to do whatever it takes to fix myself..
Please help me…
Sorry for the long post..i sincerely appreciate any help and replies
Hi everyone, I am new to the forum and this is my first post. After searching long and hard on the internet, i finally found this haven where all the engineers and math people gather. I am here for some sincere help...about what to do with my life and academic path.
Right now, I just finished my second year university majoring in marketing and accounting. However, something inside me keeps bugging me…
3 years ago, during my last year in high school, i took chemistry and calculus. Unfortunately, due to sad family and personal events, (deaths of friends and family members) affected my marks greatly. I failed calc with a 40% and passed chem. With only 50ish%..thats when my dream of becoming an electrical engineer vanished. Well, I made up for my failed calculus in summer school much later in the year and scored a 84% which took me a lot of effort. Well, with my crappy mark in chem (requirement for engineering) and botched calc. I took the rest of my high school courses in non math and science area and applied to a business program.
Luckily, I know a few good mentors from AMD (www.amd.com) and nVidia who are exceptionally bright electrical engineers. I had summer jobs at both companies in their marketing department. Well, majority of the employees from that 2 companies are EEs and I think this experience further strengthened my dream of getting a degree in EE.
Since entering university, I haven’t taken math or science course and my skills in them are getting rusty..i know engineering programs are very demanding in those two areas and I am willing to DO WHATEVER IT takes to brush up my skills. I am not very bright in math…it takes some effort for me to understand and grasp the concept.
Here is my plan:
• Since I am already halfway done the current degree, I may as well finish it.
• In the meantime, I’ll start a crusade on my own to learn and practice the match and science to prepare myself and try to make up for missing high school credit for the engineering program
• After I graduate in 2007, I’ll try to apply to the part-time engineering program at University of Toronto while working
It may take many many years..and by the time I finish this business degree, I will be 22 years old. Heck..i am still young, why let my dream fade!
So guys, are my plan possible or wild dreams? I’ve never been good in math..but yet I don’t want to let go my electrical engineering dream. What does it take to prepare myself NOW in order to survive? Again, I am willing to do whatever it takes to fix myself..
Please help me…
Sorry for the long post..i sincerely appreciate any help and replies