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Professional schools (MBA, law, medicine) are often very expensive. Graduate school in most academic programs are more reasonable. Many departments offer tuition waivers and stipends in association with work as either teaching or research assistants. (BTW, econ departments often do offer...

I have more interest in the final products of civil. I don't know that the actual work process is any more interesting; if anything, I suspect that I might be better at EE. Also, EEs can be involved with civil works (electrical systems in buildings, traffic control, electric transmission...

I need to figure out which of these subjects to study, because they will require slightly different courses next semester. Ever since I was little, I've been interested in infrastructure. Bridges, buildings, roads, pipelines, dams, etc. are all just really cool. That's the argument for civil...

As I understand it, the OP is advocating for increased self-learning in standard math curricula. The argument doesn't make sense to me b/c the kind of student who would benefit from such a change is already learning in the status quo, whether via self-study or traditional means.

Further, the assumption behind this thread is that bright/motivated students can effectively teach themselves. Given that, there's no need for a teacher to structure a curriculum for those students since they can obtain good results on their own.

He probably means that he only plays bball for fun, not on a team.

Math is best learned sequentially. Learning random little scraps of algebra or calculus is useless. You need to start with basic prealgebra.

AP Stats is easy, easy, easy. But, it is also useful. Knowing basic stats will change the way you think about things.