Choices
1. 2A + 12 ('Flexible' mechanical engineering with environmental science) - because I want to 'save the world' or similar.
2. 2OE (Ocean engineering) - because there is nothing I'd love more than to spend the rest of my life throwing robots off of boats.
3. 16 (Aero/Astro) - because it's what I came to MIT to do, and because jet engines are cool.
Comparatively few choices, yet still so many. Knowledgeable people keep telling me to just do what I really want to do and it'll work out okay. I'm trying to do that, but there's so many other complications - knowing what it actually is I want to do, worrying about what jobs I can get, knowing that sometimes I do things just because they're meant to be difficult and forget that any degree I get from MIT is going to be very challenging. Never mind that I can barely do my 18.03 p-set right now, I still find myself leaning away from 2OE because its curriculum is apparently 'easier' than the dreaded sophomore year course 16 class.
But it is MIT after all.
And throwing robots off boats is sounding like something I'd be perfectly happy doing...
2. 2OE (Ocean engineering) - because there is nothing I'd love more than to spend the rest of my life throwing robots off of boats.
3. 16 (Aero/Astro) - because it's what I came to MIT to do, and because jet engines are cool.
Comparatively few choices, yet still so many. Knowledgeable people keep telling me to just do what I really want to do and it'll work out okay. I'm trying to do that, but there's so many other complications - knowing what it actually is I want to do, worrying about what jobs I can get, knowing that sometimes I do things just because they're meant to be difficult and forget that any degree I get from MIT is going to be very challenging. Never mind that I can barely do my 18.03 p-set right now, I still find myself leaning away from 2OE because its curriculum is apparently 'easier' than the dreaded sophomore year course 16 class.
But it is MIT after all.
And throwing robots off boats is sounding like something I'd be perfectly happy doing...