Hello I’m currently in my 5th semester of civil engineering and currently taking fluid mechanics (soon to drop), dynamics, thermodynamics, and environmental engineering, and I’ve kinda realized that I’m lowkey not built for this.
I feel like I really only decided to major in engineering as it’s kind of always put on this pedestal of the best careers to go for. I’ve never had a real passion for anything and I kinda just want to go into something with a stable job market and decent pay.
The only subject i’ve really liked in school was maths by itself, and I was able to fly by calculus 1-3 and differential equations with all As with very minimal studying. Also studied very little for statistics and engineering economic analysis but only got Bs.
For all my other prereqs (both physics, chem1, and statics, and environmental science) I really only barely got by, especially with some generous curves. I’ve always kinda never liked sciences at all, and while I think the math itself that’s used in these classes isn’t actually hard to compute, I’ve never liked learning about how things actually work or properties or FBDs or anything like that. I feel like these types of classes are what’s really going to hold me back in engineering since they’re all built off the foundations of physics and chem.
I don’t like coding/programming much either so I probably wouldn’t go into something that requires a lot of it.
I’ve always thought about majoring in just mathematics but I feel like it’s just one of those majors that’s too general. I also like the idea of becoming a professor for it but the amount of years to become one is kind of a lot for the pay I feel like. But I think I can describe myself as someone who likes to work with numbers with very little (scientific) context to them.
For now, my plan is to switch my major to industrial engineering so that if I can survive my current workload, I wouldn’t have to look forward to more of these physics based classes while still having almost all my credits transfer and avoid having a huge delay in graduating. I’ll also complete my math minor since all the classes for it are in my engineering program anyways. Right now switching to mathematics as a major is kinda just a plan B if I get kicked out of the engineering program in my school, but I’m also close to reaching the point where switching my major again will delay my graduation by a lot.