College: To Engineer or not?

[Jay Trzaskos]

Chris, I am a senior in high school who is eagerly awaiting acceptance letters to arrive in the mail any day now. I am what you may call a FIRST fanatic, I mentor FLL and FVC while competing in FRC. But, I also faced, and am still facing, the same problem. I love FIRST... alot, but I also have a strong love for American History. On every college application I submitted I placed Mechanical Engineering and American History as my first and second choice of major (respectively). I am still somewhat unsure as to what I am going to study. My advice is to follow your heart. If nothing else, you can always switch your area of study. But if you don't think you will enjoy what you are going to end up doing for the rest of your career, chance are, it's not what you were meant to do.

JT
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