quixotron

yeah...hamlett sucked. I dreaded those classes,looking at the clock and hoping it would speed up. no state should should require them, I have found them the least helpful of everything else. They should be extracurricular activities.

I suggest you take every math and science course you can. ay esecially attention to the electromagnetics and optics sections in physics classes. they will come in much handy later on. Know especially your vector coordinate system, matrix algebra and integral calculus.

I'd go with electrical its the coolest science. I have worked on radar systems, RFID, cellphone communications(embedded software design and network planning).

pitronix

Well, I'm not a native english speaker but I couldn't dissagree more about literature courses. Knowlege of any kinde comes uselles if you can't tallk and write properly, that way you can express your ideas in more acceptable forme. I have a lot problems writing in english because it is hard for me to remember how every word spells but I understand it fine! So I think it is very inapropriate to tell someone to discard literature course!!!

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dknguyen

Aren't you talking about a technical writing course rather than a literature course? Being able to read Shakespeare fluently and understand it flawlessly doesn't exactly help you understand what a regular person is saying or how to express your thoughts in a coherent way to other people, or how to write for that matter.

andynerd

Speaking of languages i have French coming up and i was wondering do you think i should keep on going with French after i get my required credit or should i take the time to learn another language like Japanese or Chinese ( big anime fan so i already find it easy once i get started learning it i tried once but i got caught up in school work so i stopped i only knew the basics but know i lost it all :P)

jpanhalt

My generation in graduate school had to pass proficiency exams in two non-English languages. I hated it, but have never for an instant regretted it.

My languages were German and French. Today, you would probably swap one of those for Russian, Chinese, or Japanese. A good frined of mine's son did Japanese, and it was clearly the right choice (he's now an immigration attorney). Think about it. If you are in Japan wanting to do business in the USA, would your your best choice be someone from Japan who spoke English or someone from the USA who spoke Japanese? Hence the success of the aforementioned immigration attorney. Good luck. John

rjvh

go wide in your education is my advise
you will be able to swich to several disaplines (jobs) much easyer
if you're technical than concentrate your self on the technical things but don't underestimate the other parts they are importand also for a later stage of your life and also your social life (friends girlfriends sportmates)
if you're the top one technician on the age of 30 and you can't talk annything else as your technical expertice you know for sure your stuck on that road for the rest of your career (not a problem if you know now that you don't want to change at all) but if you know that now you don't ask this question what you should study

i studied mechanics finish it and jumped to electrical study took a job in electronics from there I went in to mechanical /electrical overhaul job
did study in the evening sales and management and started working as a technical salesman
from there i jumped to a project management company and worked as a Mechanical/electrical supervisor /coordinator on big building projects
I just took up a job and i am happy working in it as technical manager in a plumbing company (top management)
it's for this moment the right job but not the end of my career
i am controling projects from bidding /negotiating to completion stage,reviewing designs and jump on other projects as trouble shooter on technical/management iseus
the projects are high profile and are verry challenging (banks embassies hospital hotels)

one thing you should defenitly do is picking up languages
your lucky that your native tongue is english
for the technical jobs you don't need france (in fact anny europene language is not necesary for when you hitting the workfloor) everybody in those countrys do speak english (except france than)
chinese is defenetly a must have (and do the writing to)
once you have the begining of that korean and japanese are fairly similair and handy

the way i did look it when i had to make the choice of specializing myself or not

if you want to make a lot of money in the technical jobs you have to be the nr 1, 2, 3 of your expertice, if you're nr 4 you earn average

if you're nr 15 on 4 different diseplines they pay you the same as the top dogs but you can switch much easyer from job becaus the pool where you fishing in is much healthier

good luck with your decision

Robert-Jan