I know what ur talking about NailBunny but w/o shop class i wouldn't know how to turn a wrench. Everything i know about cars i learned there and im not about to let some morons ruin that for me.

 

fair enough

i think next year instead of trying to get into a shop class at my school im gunna get into one at the community college (along with a precalc class this summer so i can take calculus next year ).

 

I had no idea u were in highschool nail bunny. What grade are u in? Im a Senior and calculus sux

 

Yeah I figured it was mommy and daddy, that makes me even more furious!! Those kids are seriously something to laugh at, don't worry when this kid gets out on his own(if he ever does) believe me he will suffer because he never learned the value of a dollar.

Let's not get into the subject of calculus, I've had enough of that to last 3 lifetimes (former computer engineer major).

 

I was thinking of going into Computer engineering, what do they do exactly?

 

Well lemme say this first....
Be sure you visit more than 2 computer engineering schools, though in my own defense I had my mind made up at the time.... when you are there check out the campus, talk to EVERYONE, and check out the town.

Now as for what Comp Eng do... there's quite a few careers for you in this field though I will let you in, it is a dying field. One of the most obvious is PC chip R&D, chip design, motherboard, graphics card, sound card, basically anything that contains an electrical circuit you will be able to design and develope. It's the hardware side of the PC. Also communications development again the hardware side. You will learn some programming languages mainly C++ which really isn't that bad, but will take some studying. Oh and lots and lots and lots of calculus and physics. Some materials science courses. But yeah LOTS of calculus and physics. By the middle of my 3rd year I was up to what would be called Calculus 5th level which is basically multivariable polynomial equations. It sounds bad but if you put the time in it won't be.

 

sophomore...ugh...one of the oldest in my classes...but my friend (child prodigy in music and maths) was 16 by march in freshman year. its crazy. my girlfriend and two of my friends are taking calculus next year and i want to take it with them...but hte only way i could do that is to switch into precalc this year or take PDM (precalculus and discrete mathematics) this summer at KVCC (kalamazoo valley community college)

btw...precalc here is defined as FST and PDM in one year...FST is functions, statistics, and trig, PDM is precalculus and discrete mathematics. somehow they have a course thats both of those in one year and called precalc

 

I was in the same boat as you during my softmore year but i never thought to take precalc, so i guess ur a step ahead of me. I took precalc Jr. year as well and now im in calc I

 

thats what i was gunna do...until i realized how boring FST was gunna be. so now im gunna switch to precalc.

 

Cause you know calculus is as much fun as a barrell of monkeys