Thoughts on Mechanical Engineering

So I'm now wondering whether I should have been a MechE major instead.

O_o

That thought has never crossed my mind before. I don't know why it is now. It's just that the stuff they do seems really cool and relevant and applicable to the real world. Mechanical engineers solve real problems. And they can actually get jobs.

This is something I wish I'd considered freshman year instead of my fling with pre-med.

I'm not sure why I was so bio-oriented. Well, I do know. I wanted to be able to do something medically relevant. To save lives and all that jazz. So why am I having doubts now? Maybe I'm just jaded from the knowledge that there's not much to do with bioengineering except research and med school. Plus, we don't even have ABET accreditation yet. Oy.

So after my experience with research, I'm pretty sure that that's not what I want to do with my life. And I know I don't really want to be a doctor. And I'm not interested in law school. So I'm considering business, and dealing with the business side of the biotech and healthcare industries.

The sad thing is, even if I do succeed in that, I'm really going to miss all quantitative analysis and problem solving we do as engineers. Not that businessmen don't problem solve. But it's a very different kind of problem solving. Very different. You know what I mean?

I think I really just want to be an engineer. But I had to pick the one engineering major where that isn't really possible.

Oy, oh well. Maybe I'll go read some of the BioE senior design projects and hope that revives my interest and enthusiasm in BioE.