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jtflew said:
Would love to. I'm pissed at myself for wasting my potential and am at a pisshole like Tiger High. With a more challenging curriculum in high school I could have had the ability to go anywhere I please. I had teachers begging my father to send me to a private HS but we didn't have the money. And I have taken the mentality that everything was going to be as easy as that crappy HS I went to and I have screwed around too long in college and I hate myself for it
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transfer to Wabash. it's all dudes. hard to screw around too much!
 
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I take it Wabash is a private university. If so, **** that. I got enough debt for me. In 2 years I hope to have my degree and will be plenty fine with an engineering degree from even the ****tiest college. You can't dumb down the math involved in this.
 
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jtflew said:
I take it Wabash is a private university. If so, **** that. I got enough debt for me. In 2 years I hope to have my degree and will be plenty fine with an engineering degree from even the ****tiest college. You can't dumb down the math involved in this.
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Wabash is the ****. and you will have a job right out of it pretty much guaranteed if you make it through with an engineering degree.
 
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Indianavol4eva said:
Wabash is the ****. and you will have a job right out of it pretty much guaranteed if you make it through with an engineering degree.
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Anywhere with an engineering degree and in the top 50% will pretty much land me a job out of college . Mech Engineering at UoM only graduates about 20 every year. That's not a lot
 
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I'm afraid that my dream of working with an auto manufacturer and designing badass engines will be moot in 10+ years. More electrical engineers will be involved in that than mechanical. Hate this move to hybrid/electric vehicles.
 
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jtflew said:
Anywhere with an engineering degree and in the top 50% will pretty much land me a job out of college . Mech Engineering at UoM only graduates about 20 every year. That's not a lot
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well i don't know all the statistics and shiz, but i know we just changed something about our engineering program to compete on the same level as Rose Hulman. So i assume its pretty good.
 
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jtflew said:
I'm afraid that my dream of working with an auto manufacturer and designing badass engines will be moot in 10+ years. More electrical engineers will be involved in that than mechanical. Hate this move to hybrid/electric vehicles.
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i don't know about all that. i can tell you bout some poetry though!
 
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I plan on staying in tennessee after I graduate. Far too low of a standard of living to move. Plus mechs make 55-60k coming out. That will set me up nicely out of college. Of course I plan on paying back my debt as quick as humanly possible. Don't want that **** hanging on me
 
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Indianavol4eva said:
my debt is outta this world. 40k a year. fml. i got quite a bit covered though.
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Knew it was private. I don't care the benefits. I didn't come from a well to do family so private was never in my vocabulary. My mom has worked in a factory for the past 20 years and pretty much cut me off when I went to college bc she thought I was acting too good for her. I'm a first generation college student in my immediate family. Even though my dad was smart enough. I have had a lot of pressure on me. It has screwed with me for a few years. But I will graduate in 6. Not what I planned. I actually had med school plans coming out of HS. My buddy who is in UT med school right now once told me I was a genius. I just couldn't carry all the weight that people put on me.
 
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jtflew said:
Knew it was private. I don't care the benefits. I didn't come from a well to do family so private was never in my vocabulary. My mom has worked in a factory for the past 20 years and pretty much cut me off when I went to college bc she thought I was acting too good for her. I'm a first generation college student in my immediate family. Even though my dad was smart enough. I have had a lot of pressure on me. It has screwed with me for a few years. But I will graduate in 6. Not what I planned. I actually had med school plans coming out of HS. My buddy who is in UT med school right now once told me I was a genius. I just couldn't carry all the weight that people put on me.
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it ain't about what other people think. it's about you. if private school is your best option, that's where you should be. and the benefits are definitely worth it.
 
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Indianavol4eva said:
it ain't about what other people think. it's about you. if private school is your best option, that's where you should be. and the benefits are definitely worth it.
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It's too late for all that for me. While I came from a poor family, school always came easy to me. I should have been in a high academic institution in my HS years. I was never pushed. I have been bored so many years of my life I can't even count with schoolwork. Screwed me good. I'm just trying to get out of college with a degree. And my dad is counting on me.
 
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then do work. i am just sayin, it is bull**** for people to look down on you for making the best of your situation, and it's bull**** that you let it bring you down. if you are as smart as you say you are, plenty of people would kill to be in your shoes. should take full advantage of it. it's your life. not everyone else's
 
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It's weird to explain. I always knew that I was smarter than my peers. Hell the person that finished validictorian of my class was worried about me after my first few weeks of school. I wound up sleeping through my first 3 years of HS. And you can go back and ask any of my teachers. I was told I was smart by so many. Yet I never really spent time with people equal to me. I never spent time in a class where the teacher could teach subject matter equal to my intelligence. I made a 28 on the ACT in my sophomore year. One person beat that in my high school even through senior year. But I never cared because I was never challenged. I carried that attitude into college. And still feel that classes that aren't worthy of my time should be skipped even though I had a spotless record in HS. Idk what's wrong with me, but I need to finish college. I know I can easily. I just have to have the desire
 
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i did that in private high school as well. college, however, would kick my ass if i tried to do that. This place makes you work. i had 37 pages of final papers this semester plus 2 finals. as a freshman. it was ridiculous
 
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Indianavol4eva said:
i did that in private high school as well. college, however, would kick my ass if i tried to do that. This place makes you work. i had 37 pages of final papers this semester plus 2 finals. as a freshman. it was ridiculous
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One reason I chose a science over a humanity. I'm done writing papers. Reports I may write but not papers. I just need to start giving a ****. Kinda lost track when my ex completely broke it off too. Was kinda messed up for a year on that
 
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