The promise of college for our generation

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Joe Matt

Life is hard. College is very hard. As some might have noticed with me (or will at Champs), I've matured quite a bit at college. I matured a lot over FIRST, but college put about twice as much into maturing me. You need to be prepared for the fall you'll face. It will happen, and it will be very bad. It's up to you how you handle it. I've thought about if business/communications/etc would be a better fit, but I feel that engineering just hasn't been given a chance yet, and I still feel that this is the way now, even with finals around the corner.

I'm comfortable to admit that I'm going to re-take intro physics for engineers over the summer. I FAILED the course, I want to admit that. I've never failed a class before. NEVER. Why am I telling you guys this? Because if it helps one kid who realizes that he/she's not the only one, then I'm happy. I know one kid who has retaken Calc 1 and will retake physics again. He still wants to be an engineer.

Just because you don't go to college, you change your major, change your school, etc, DOESN'T mean that you fail at life, and it doesn't mean you will not change the world. Steve Jobs & Bill Gates are two PRIME examples of this. The longest running CEO of all time, Michael Eisner of Disney was an english major out of a small liberal arts college in Ohio, not some Ivy league or major college. For every Lary Page & Serji there is another guy who graduated from a small college who has impacted the world greatly, or, never even graduated college, such as Steve & Bill.

The promise of the future is hard. Right now we're fighting an uphill battle against other countries. While we're focused on war and American Idol, they're focused on science, technology, and learning. Not much motivation now, eh?

Wow Joe Matt!
Is the word - perseverence - anywhere in this thread? I think it just got put here by Joe.