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Is engineering right for me?

I'm a junior in high school (technically a senior since i'm graduating early) and its about time I decide what I want to study in college and potentially have a career in that field. most of the people in my family are in medicine and ever since I was little I assumed I'd study to be in the medical field too. but now i realize that i'm not passionate about medicine at all but I'm interested in engineering and want to pursue a career in either chemical or materials engineering but after doing a lot of research I feel kind of intimidated. I love math and i'm pretty good at it. currently i'm in AP calc BC and I've never gotten less than an A in any of my math classes. but I feel like i won't be able to handle engineering classes in college and that i'm not smart enough. I assume that studying engineering is also very time consuming. although I am definitely willing to put in the work, my social life is also pretty important to me. I plan on joining clubs and maybe even a sorority in college so would i be able to juggle both without being overwhelmed? if i decide to pursue engineering what advice would you give me? sorry if my question was all over the place, haha thanks in advance :)

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  • Sunny
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    You are worrying unnecessarily. Even if you decide to do engineering now, you won't be taking engineering classes for quite a while after starting college. You'll have plenty of time to adjust to the work load and have a social life before that even starts.

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