The way that you really know what you like, is if you wake up in the morning and all's you think about is writing, then you can conclude that you were born to be a writer. (etc.) See the thing that i really wanted to become when I was younger was, to become a genetic engineer. I wanted to go to Rochester Univ. of tech. Now if you want to see amazing computer and mechanical technology then this is the place to go. I went there for 3 days and it was purely amazing there. I saw the biggest laser in the country. Now that was awesome. They actually fired it up, but alas, we were only able to view its power on the televisions set up for our viewing pleasure. Although i was not able to get an up close and personal sight I still thought that is was awesome.

In a lot of cases, I would like to do movies like The Matrix, where there's a lot of allegory coming from what i believe. I didn't even really intend to do that, though. If I wind up actually making movies, I could see my faith coming out in one of two ways, depending on the movie.

1) I just give a film a really redemptive quality. For instance, there's a lot you can learn about sacrifice in Saving Private Ryan, yet there's no religion in it. I'd totally like to do that.

2) I'd just show what it's like to be a normal person, but you know a God at the same time. Like right now, I'm making a movie for a class where a guy is pursuing a major that he thinks he's been called to, even though the same parents that woke him up every Sunday for church disapprove of it. So he's caught in a dilemma between choosing God's will or "honoring his parents." That might sound like something you'd see coming from a Billy Graham-related thing, but I'd like to make it as normal as possible. It might find more of an audience with Christians, but if non-Christians were to watch, I'd hope it'd be useful for them, even if they didn't convert.


My goal isn't to share my faith in a flashy, preachy way. I'm all too aware that people get alienated by that. But I just think that faith can make for some good storytelling that resonates with all audiences. The idea is to include those people, not exclude them by talking about only Christian concepts, using Christian language, and trying to get them to convert on the spot. At the very least, if I make it evident in my movie that I want to express a Christian view on something (as opposed to a subtle redemptive quality), then people will walk away enlightened and educated about their fellow man, rather than be offended by him.

I started out in Aerospace Engineering. I then switched to Computer Science, then to Information Technology, then to Engineering Science, which is where I am now... and I'm still not satisfied with my major, but I'll stick with it because I can graduate with a degree in it easily by May. So basically, I went through 4 years of college to figure out that the specific college I was attending wasnt for me.

Right now it seems like I'll pick Comp Sci because I do enjoy programming. It just comes naturally to me to think logically and design algorithms and stuff. I'm worried, though, because I think I might not be able to sit down and concentrate on a piece of code for very long. I really don't want to get into Comp Sci and find out I don't really love programming.

There are two alternatives:

Electrical Engineering: Specifically, robotics. I've been taking a 1 semester robotics class and I love it. I've designing (or thinking about designing) circuits ever since my introduction to electronics in Physics. It also has the programming aspect that I love, without as much of the boring data structure stuff mentioned earlier in this thread.

Art: I'm not so sure about this. I've always been kind of artistic and lately I've been drawing some pretty awesome cartoons. However, I'm not really into learning anything in art beyond what I know and don't really plan on taking a class. It's just doodles.

In short, I'm pretty confused.

Well, in Britland you choose your degree about a year before you go to university (unless you really really hate it, in which case you can drop out or maybe switch).

I can tell you what Computer Science is about:
- It's not much coding, only about 20% of work in computer science is anything to do with coding, and that just tends to be coding major projects.
- It's not software engineering, learning how to develop actual software has made up exactly... 3% of my degree so far.
- It's got nothing to do with videogames
- A Computer Science graphics module won't involve any stuff that you'd use if coding a game engine, instead it will involve line-drawing algorithms, filling algorithms, clipping algorithms and rasterising algorithms.
- Computer Science is about 30% maths
- Computer Science is about 20% hardware
- Computer Science is about 30% algorithms
- Computer Science is about 20% coding
- By algorithms I mean learning about existing algorithms rather than writing your own, you'll be expected to analyse them and come up with their efficiency and time requirements, you'll be expected to regurgitate standard algorithms in exams. You won't be taught how to write algorithms, just how to modify existing ones and how to analyse them
- You will learn a lot of stuff which you'll never ever use.
- UML sucks
- Z sucks
- Databases was probably the most interesting thing to date, and I already knew how to do them.
- An Artificial Intelligence module will just be about search and planning algorithms, nothing cool.

What's good about Computer Science?
- you can get a good degree just from using wikipedia for revision, you don't need textbooks.

PS: 20% hardware was very generous, as only about 7% of what i've done is hardware.

- SML sucks.

You quoted the entire post for that?

He's good like that.

my VR forced me to pick a major before giving me support so i picked software engineering and last year went from allright to downright hatting it to liking it again so yeah i dunno lol.

I guess my A-level subjects are the closest thing I have to majors here... seeing as I'm taking maths, further maths, physics and chemistry, I guess you can see where I'm headed.

I am Computer Engineering, because I get to do quiet a bit of programming, and at the same time design circuits and robots of that sort. Good balance. Though I do have to ake all the data structures and complexity notation classes, which sucks right now. I hate it. BUt I dont want to take the linear systems class cause I might die....so right now I have chosen my major to avoid one class.

I'll do a business minor cause business can be fun.

Didn't know you were a painter, Elana.

I'm a drawing/painting dual emphasis fine arts major. I started off as an English major, but I missed art. It's hard to describe why I'm an FA major or why I had to switch over to it from English, which I also am interested in. But like one of my instructors says, "A bad day in the studio is better than a good day anywhere else."

I am planning on being a music major with an emphasis on performance. Music is just what I do. I love music. I'm not sure how I'll manage to support myself with just music, but we'll see. I'll find something.