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Jun 20, 2003 | 06:39 PM

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couleeman

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From: Magrath

Any Mechanical Engineers.

Thanks for all the responses. For one, I will be putting up the bill myself. Parents can't afford it, plus I am married with a kid.

I am starting to get serious about school for a second time. Whatever I decide to go into, I will try to do as many courses as I can in the evening. I do like Civil engineering, but the money is just not worth the hassle. Lately I have been putting in 60+ hours a week. The way I see it, I didn't spend my time and money in school to work 12-15 hour days, 5-6 days a week.

My dad is a Mechanical engineering tech (which he doesn't use now) and he thinks I would do well as a Mechanical engineer.

I am very good with numbers and mechanical things, and can usually get by with reading and writing courses. I took a couple of begining calc courses and had no problems whatsoever with them.

I will for sure have to contact some of you to get a more detailed description of your job. Please don't be offended if it takes me a while, as I said before, I am putting in long hours, and by the time I get home, I feel like sleeping and that is it.

Thanks again for those that have responded.

Jun 20, 2003 | 07:44 PM

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Any Mechanical Engineers.

I did 3.5 years of pre-med and dropped out. Wanted to play too much. Built a boat and sailed half way around the world. Became a gen. contractor for dozen years or so and decided to go back to school to finish what I started, and compliment my then current profession with a Civil Engineering degree. My emphasis was structures. I minored in Mechanical. I even got my EIT. I am now an inventor with an automotive industry leading, one of the best new truck products of the year, award, praised in the media coast to coast.
My point: I had no idea how I was going to directly implement my degree. I didn't ever even think I could do engineering for the rest of my life. I cursed the broad curriculum of electrical and mechanical required for civil at my University at the time. I nearly dropped out again my senior year, when I came up with the idea, to develope the patent before I feared Detroit would. I used every bit of my education to develope an electro-mechanical device. I did most of own patent, search, stress analysis, circuit design, micro-controller programming, all myself. You never know where its going to take you so don't limit yourself, if you are so inclined.

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Jun 22, 2003 | 07:58 PM

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From: Coutts Canada

Any Mechanical Engineers.

I have taken physics this year and next i will be taking pre-calc and i have a very veery good math teacher that could probably teach pre-calc to a 5th grader and they would understand (i have also taken all possible math and science courses with the exception of anatomy(sp?) ) And the part of reading i am not worried about because i am a very fast reader and i understand and remember it all. Also my high school offers a class called ISI. basically its where you think of a science project and you do (in a team or a individual project) it for science fair. And this has taught me many things like working in a team (did this year but i don't know about next year), working long hours to get it done(me and my partner basically lived in the lab for two weeks before regional fair), and keeping my grades up while playing midget hockey at the same time. Also my parents are paying my way (they set up a very good college fund) and once i know where i plan on going to school i will be applying for every possible scholarship(sp?) thats avaible.

From what everyone has said i am getting more sure of what i want to do after high school. Thanks for all the info everyone....now i just have to find a school that has what i want to take.