thanks for all the responses. the reason I didn't wait was because I got a scholarship, so it's not all that expensive. I stayed home to save money also, since I don't see a point in going across the country since I have no idea what I want to do.
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Originally Posted by Vinnie Madrox
What do you like to do in your free time/hobbies?
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Cars. I don't think I want a career in that though. My dad was a mechanic for many years and then got out of it because he got sick of it. I like it as a hobby but I don't want to be changing oil for a living I don't think
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Originally Posted by WildBillyT
Where do you excel in? Are you just regular across the board?
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I do well in everything, school has always come somewhat easily to me. I enjoy science, math, and business the most though probably. I'm good in writing/english but don't really enjoy it, and I like history but not the way it's taught in schools, so I'll stick with the history channel for that hahah.
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Originally Posted by LTs1ow
Find a counselor, and sit down with the school's book of majors. Go through what your options are, and what might interest you. It is a huge annoyance to take classes that will have no bearing or help to your intended major, so while taking genEd courses are good, they can end up not helping you at all, IE most science oriented majors will not rely on basic genEd as much.
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My adviser kind of screwed me over in just that way. I was loosely considering engineering, but this school only offers a pre-engineering program and then you transfer to NJIT. Classes are assigned the first semester of Freshman year, so I had no choices in that. My adviser told me not to take any science/math classes until sophomore year, so I signed up for all the gen eds she recommended. Then sophomore year when I went to meet with her to get my pin to register for classes I found out that she had quit, but I had never been assigned a new adviser. I had to go from office to office and it ended up taking me weeks to get the pin to sign up for classes, so all the engineering related prerequisites were full. Now this semester I went to look into what I needed to take to continue on that path, and barely any of my classes would have counted. It would end up taking me another 5 years to finish. I figure since I'm in 2 years already, I can finish a degree in 2. and then if I realize engineering is what I really want to do I can go for that, but since I'm half done already I'd rather not scrap all of these classes.