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Post by Bo » Thu Jul 01, 2004 6:08 pm

I intend to. How's your experience been so far? Anything I should watch out for? My first two semesters are just the general engineering courses, all engineering students at <a href="http://umr.edu">UMR</a> take those before specializing. However, I took several for college credit in High School (done with History, Chemistry, and English forever, thank Buddha), so I did end up with one CE class.
I've got two Basic Engineering classes, one on design processes and one on careers, Macroeconomics, and Calculus for Engineers 2 (I amazingly tested out of Calc for Engineers 1). My CE class is on object-oriented programming. I don't want to be a programmer, but it's good to have a working knowledge. I have an elective on Entrepreneurship in there, too.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 7:12 pm

Yeah, you'll have some programming, but not much. We've only taken one semester of assembly and one of C, and I think that's it for a while. It's nice to know, since you can see how the low-level languages actually interface with memory locations and such.

I'm assuming you'll have an introductory circuits class sometime soon. That's not too bad at all. Intro to EE or whatever your equivalent class is should be easy as well... You probably already know most of the stuff they'll cover (binary calculations [signed/unsigned/2's complement/etc], logical operations, basic memory).

I like ECE. People are right when they say it's hard, but I find it fun and challenging, and I'm not going to switch out like a few of my friends already have.

Do you have to take Engineering Physics? Because <I>those</I> really suck.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Jul 01, 2004 11:01 pm

EDIT- I said: Bleh. I'm suddenly very glad I'm not a math/science person. Those courses all sound boring.

I start college in the fall, as well.

Pep said: Yeah, you guys suck. Degree in Arts for me.

chix0rgirl · Post by **chix0rgirl** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:09 am

Yeah, I personally think Sega's courseload is boring AND difficult. ;D But hey, have fun with that, Bo... What college are you going to?

Edit: I might as well just ask everyone what schools they're going to, just out of curiosity...

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:31 am

I'm not going to a school, I'm going to a community college. Big difference.

-wyvern · Post by **-wyvern** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:50 am

I wanna go to leicester university to do satalite physics. But what I am going to do is go and be a grease monkey at macdonalds. Damn you, grades. You win this time.

Light Speed · Post by **Light Speed** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:45 am

I'm going to the University of Utah cause it is in-state making it cheaper than those 30K a year schools.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:19 am

What's your concentration?

Post by Bo » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:23 am

<a href="http://umr.edu">University of Missouri-Rolla</a>, home of the Miners. It's the engineering school in Missouri/ surrounding states. Pro: They gave me a bitchin' scholarship. Con: The guy/ girl ratio really sucks.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:40 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:What's your concentration?

I'm majoring in English according to my application, but I may wind up jumping over to Communications co-op by my second year.

Yeah, I know...

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 12:45 pm

I was actually talking to Grant. Did you fuck up the quote, again?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 1:13 pm

Oh shit, I did. That was me talking, not Grant.

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:25 pm

You didn't learn your lesson the first time?! 20 lashes from Zeta, then 20 lashes from NT.

And NT, don't try to pretend you're not gay.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 2:30 pm

I was wondering about that.

Talk about putting words in my mouth...

Anyway, to answer Gibbon, I'm thinking of majoring in Journalism or maybe teaching. Definitely not something in broadcasting, as I'm already working my way up there and degrees in that field do the same thing as shit in a paperbag. At the end of the day, you can do it or you can't.

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 4:13 pm

I guess I'm going to have to toss Amazing Grant's salad if I do that one more time, eh?

Very true about the broadcasting, which makes me skeptical about the Communications thing. It may be better to focus on English and Journalism, because they do just as much to get you into that field. Though I do hear that the co-op program at my University is quite useful.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:42 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:You didn't learn your lesson the first time?! 20 lashes from Zeta, then 20 lashes from NT.

And NT, don't try to pretend you're not gay.

Post by **Delphine** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 5:45 pm

She's obviously your beard.

Post by **Esrever** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:22 pm

I gradded in April with a BA Honours in History and a minor in Professional Writing. Still looking for work.... :/

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 7:32 pm

For some reason I read that as "a minor in Professional Wrestling." I don't know what got into me.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 8:04 pm

Pepperidge wrote:I guess I'm going to have to toss Amazing Grant's salad if I do that one more time, eh?

You make it sound so appealing, now I'm hoping you do.

Very true about the broadcasting, which makes me skeptical about the Communications thing. It may be better to focus on English and Journalism, because they do just as much to get you into that field. Though I do hear that the co-op program at my University is quite useful.

Are you interested in broadcasting or majoring in Communications or anything like that, Pep? I don't know if you are or not (I couldn't tell if you were just commenting on the subject, or thinking "aloud"), but you could try going my route if you are.

See, last year I started working as an unpaid intern at one of the local radio stations. Anyone can do it (all it is is helping them out on remotes or whatever); most folks do it because they have to get a certain amount of internship hours for classes. I just did it because I wanted to get my foot in the door; as a kid, I always wanted to be an actor or performer or something like that and I figured radio would be good "practice". Now, I'm looking at it like it could be a viable back-up or side career, you know? I mean, if I can get good enough at it, I could always fall back on it. This way, I can get a degree where it'd be useful; teaching or something.

Anyway, I just worked my way up until I was eventually part of the staff, just running the control board during syndicated shows and things like that. Only $6.50 an hour, but hey, I figure it beats McDonald's, right? Then, they started letting me practice going on the air when my syndicated shows ended (in the middle of the night, around 2am). I eventually got good enough to start getting some real shifts as a fill-in guy, and that's where I'm at right now. I have friends that work at different format stations (in the same building, of course; it's all part of one corporation) that do have degrees in Communications or Broadcasting and they're at or below where I am.

On the other hand, I think minoring in something like that could definitely help, especially if you're looking to be a program director or something. But you don't want to put all of your eggs in one basket is what I'm saying. Especially since radio/broadcasting isn't a very stable career. But that goes for anything. Professional Wrestling, too.

So anyway, I'm going to be attending Bowling Green State University in the fall (to answer chix0rgirl).

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:02 pm

Didn't I just tell you not to pretend like you aren't gay?

Post by **Pepperidge** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 9:26 pm

Yeah, that general area is probably going to be my focus. I've been volunteering for my local public access station by filming and editing city council meetings once or twice a week for the past few months, though it hasn't really led to anything.

It's just that I've been told that a degree of Communications is a burger flipping degree on its own, which is why I think the co-op may be a wise choice. I'll likely also take some political science courses because if you've seen my website, you'd know how politically entangled the broadcasting industry is in Canada, and I think a lot of the topics go hand-in-hand.

I also want to take some business courses, but I'm not sure if my high school Math mark is quite up to snuff.

chix0rgirl · Post by **chix0rgirl** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 10:21 pm

Ahh, fellow communication majors. :) I'm going into journalism; although I originally applied under print journalism, the other subfields (photo, broadcast, and multimedia) sound more and more appealing. We'll see; I've got a year and a half to decide.

I don't know if I'm actually going to do anything with my degree. I'll probably head back to teh Asia and get a job at some bilingual radio station/newspaper and end up richer than all of you engineers combined. Ooh, that'd be nice. :D

Post by **Green Gibbon!** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:57 pm

I'm going to be emporer. Of the world.

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Jul 02, 2004 11:58 pm

Green Gibbon! wrote:I'm going to be emporer. Of the world.

Are you sure you'd rather not just be emperor?