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Was going to start a new thread, but decided to bump this one. I'm 18 years old and graduated high school a year early. I've done one semester of school at UH-Downtown and this semester I took off due to family problems and to work. I'm planning on taking courses in the summer and eventually transferring to UH-Main. I'm definitely at a crossroads and I've jumped around from wanting to major in History, Psychology, Engineering, Culinary Arts,and Film. After reading through this thread it seems that Engineering is probably the safest bet for me and I'm really interested in Electrical Engineering. My question is for anyone with knowledge about or has graduated from Electrical Engineering programs: What is it like? What skills would I be learning? How difficult and how competitive are the classes? What kinds of jobs would I be looking at after I get my bachelors? If anyone can answer any of these questions I would greatly appreciate it.
I have a BSEE from Texas. It was a pretty painful, albeit rewarding experience. Unlike ME and ChemE, EE is completely devoid of females, is chock full of dorks, and many profs tend to be old and somewhat apathetic. Finished with a 3.2 GPA which was pretty decent considering that I was more concerned with partying and chasing tail than I was with school work. But I did land a great job out of school, and my technical background was a huge asset when applying to b-school 4 years later. My advice would be to explore the other disciplines (possibly Petroleum Engineering as well) before choosing EE. If you really want to have a good time and still land a good job after school, go through the PPA program and work for a Big-4 accounting firm after graduating. Even after a full-on career switch into finance, my knowledge on advanced accounting topics is still limited.
Professional Program in Accounting. It takes one extra year, but you have some very marketable skills down the road if you want to get into the financial services sector doing i-banking, sales and trading, and the like.
Glad to know it's that easy now. When I did the 5-year accounting program (not at UH), I literally applied to every single office of each of the then-Big 6 accounting firms. Out of that, I got four interviews (one in Phoenix that I had to pay my own way to get to. The others in Fort Worth, Amarillo and San Antonio) and zero job offers (though I did get a nice Deloitte and Touche binder thing that I still use as a consolation prize). Granted, that was nearly 20 years ago, and I have heard that the accounting profession was much better now (none of the people I went to school with got jobs at Big 6 firms, at least not initially. I didn't keep up with them, so I don't know if they eventually did).
a few years back there was actually one smoking hot chick in EE at texas Like super cute legit 9 out of 10, she seemed smart too everyone was kind of scared to talk to her i think though
I have a bs in engineering. Took me 1 year after graduation to start working. I get paid really well (for my age) right now. But I don't like my job too much. I would much rather sit home and watch tv all day. If it wasn't for money. Just my 2 cents.
I think MOST folks would rather sit at home and watch TV all day rather than go to work. There is a reason its called "work" and they pay you for it.
I think these programs are really well respected now, especially if you come out of them with decent to good GPAs. My wife graduated from A&M with this and had a job offer from every big accounting firm (Big 5 at the time).
i have a BSEE from UT. classes were nut-wrenchingly tough but it was a really good experience. id say engineering and accounting are probably the 2 safest fields to go into. but both arent immune from a bad economy. so dont think youre a shoe in to have a job after graduating. however, your chances are better than joe-shmo who got a BA in English. with that said, you can parlay an engineering degree into other fields. ill be starting medical school this fall. engineering classes are tough but i wouldnt let that factor into your decision. good luck on choosing a major.
Seems like most people here agree that EE is a great undergrad major. But like the above poster said, it is not immune to the ecomony crisis. I have friends who have graduated from Long Beach State U., which has an above average EE program. But they are still out of jobs as of today. I on the other and graduated 1 year earlier and luckily found a job before the depression. But now I still have to worry about layoffs. BTW, I just got a 3% raise after my 1st year. Is that too little?
Knowing your history, you would probably do better to stay home and watch TV....instead of going out to clubs and trying to meet "women".....
You're probably desi or Asian so your wife is probably going to be sucking away your life force until one of you dies so do what you want before you get hitched And forget their concerns about wanting precious little grandchildren
