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1newcatholic
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My wife was a math major, and she makes pretty good money as a bookkeeper and office manager.
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EasterJoy
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You have a counsellor in your major who can look at your transcript and suggest alternatives. Talk to him or her, or ask to talk to one of your former instructors whose advice you value. You can also talk to faculty in other disciplines. Get with it, so you can get your fall classes lines up.
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Vanez
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Friendly greetings!
When i was studying in college, there was this particular guy in his 36 who decided to get a degree in graphic design (he’s my classmate) after having studied medical for more than 10 years and worked at a hospital (as a male nurse…what is a male nurse called?). When i asked him why this sudden change, he told me that he felt that graphic design is his true interest. My next question was: “how do you know?” He said that he’s been learning photoshop for a while and he became interested and is kind of addicted. Amongst my friends i was known to be a blatant girl, my opinions have always been straight to the point, which can be very rude to some people. I told him,“look, this is not only about photoshop. The students at this art and design college have been creative since childhood. I dont mean to be rude to you, but consider this as a reminder.” I told him like this because he’s a burned out man, everything can make him feel down e.g. when i and other friends got higher marks, he kept pitying himself, etc. i always told him to not giving up, but nothing cheered him up. During the study, he realized that it took him one whole day to even think of a design he would be creating while it took us (me and our friends/classmates) for about 1-2 hours for a thematical design and a few minutes for a free creation (a simple example: teacher wants us to create a cat in adobe illustrator. We make it in a few minutes, while, in these same minutes he still has his file blank because he is still thinking).
To make the story short, in today’s life when i last asked him what occupation he’s doing, he answered,“still at hospital. Same job. I design only in my free time.”
While it’s nice to encourage someone to pursue the degree he wants, it is also good to think more logical and skeptical. One must be very certain about the decision he makes and must think of the consequences (like financial needs, etc). Not only it will take more time to study, but one may feel like he’s competing against another students who actually have been doing for years. For an example: someone with a skill to play violin while starting in his 20 tries to get into a conservatorium and he passed the entrance examination. Okay, congratulation! But then he will be sitting in the class together with another students who have been playing violin since they were 4. Feel the feeling of competing? Obvious. Nevertheless, with a very optimist thoughts, motivation, diligence, he still has chance to be a pro violinist. About the obstacles of getting a seat in a professional orchestra is another story.
The moral of this story, while we do encourage you to pursue your dream, my advice is based from the experience my closed friend has. Or another option: you still can be a mechanical engineer without being alcoholic, you can be a mechanical engineer without divorcing your wife
and…a mechanical engineer + a good, faithful Catholic! That you have seen them around you being alcoholic and divorced, it does not mean you have to follow them! (Of course you dont have to!) make a difference! Love your job. “Hello, i am a mechanical engineer, i am not an alcoholic, i am Catholic and have a lovely wife that i love.” With our good attitude, love, and faith, we can inspire people to confess their sins, take up a cross and follow Jesus.Sorry for my long rant,…
Remember: you need to pray and ask Jesus whether or not changing major is right for you. He will answer! Whether it’s yes or no. But often, if the answer is a no, we tempt to think He doesn’t even hear our prayer and eventually feel down. If the answer is a no, means He has a greater plan for us. For you.
May God bless you! I pray for you.
Our Father who art in heaven,
Hallowed be Thy name.
Thy kingdom comes,
Thy will be done.
On earth as it is in heaven.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us.
Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil. Amen.
Hail Mary, full of grace!
The Lord is with Thee.
Blessed art Thou among women,
And blessed is the fruit of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, mother of God,
Pray for us sinner!
Now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
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HopenHappiness
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They are only more superior then you is because you allow yourself to believe it. You need to believe that you can do anything you put your mind to and want it bad enough. If you have the drive, you can do it plan and simple.Good luck in your Career change. 
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Smither9
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Cheating may be rampant on college campuses. It is wrong and we hold ourselves to a higher standard. In the book of proverbs, “Pro 28:6 Better is the poor who walks in his uprightness than he who is perverse in his ways, though he is rich.”
In Fremont, CA in the late 1970’s was car plant where: “One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in the GM plant in Fremont,” adds Jeffrey Liker, a professor who studied the plant. “If you want sex, if you want drugs, if you want alcohol, it’s there. During breaks, during lunch time, if you want to gamble illegally — any illegal activity was available for the asking within that plant.” Absenteeism was so bad that some mornings they didn’t have enough employees to start the assembly line; they had to go across the street and drag people out of the bar.
You want find a environment where God’s laws are supported and avoid staying in a corrupted place of work. It is better to be rich spirit and materially poor than compromise moral values for the sake of a $65,000+ job.
In Fremont, CA in the late 1970’s was car plant where: “One of the expressions was, you can buy anything you want in the GM plant in Fremont,” adds Jeffrey Liker, a professor who studied the plant. “If you want sex, if you want drugs, if you want alcohol, it’s there. During breaks, during lunch time, if you want to gamble illegally — any illegal activity was available for the asking within that plant.” Absenteeism was so bad that some mornings they didn’t have enough employees to start the assembly line; they had to go across the street and drag people out of the bar.
You want find a environment where God’s laws are supported and avoid staying in a corrupted place of work. It is better to be rich spirit and materially poor than compromise moral values for the sake of a $65,000+ job.
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Kount_C
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Smithers, I think I would have agreed with you 6 or 2 years ago about cheating being wrong, in college. But its the shadow system that is set up. For our smoke and mirrors educational system in the USA.
My friend actuly just came back on vacation from medical school, he told me that a class mate who was in his last year of class, had finished at the top, and was on his way to residency. After a few days of not the class mate not showing his face around campus or socially, authorities went to investigate. Turned out he Over Dosed on Coke, used to study all the time. I knew another Radiology student who was hard on meth, and plenty of my class mates, in Engineering, will do prescription speed here. Aderoll, Provigil, Nugil,
If Schools where concerned about “Integreity” they would ask themselves, why the environment they have produces these types of students. If they had full integrity and honesty, the universities would rid them selves of all Fraternitites and Sororities.
Make these institutions a place of work and ambition, rather then advertise them as vacation holmes for spoiled children living on Mom and Dad’s nest egg.
Cheers ! and God bless,
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