RedFox
01-19-2005, 10:18 AM
I am hoping that I'll be able to change majors from computer engineering to imaging science. I didn't really know what I was getting into when I changed from undeclared engineering to computer engineering in the fall of my first year. The advisor looked surprised and asked me if I was sure I wanted the computer engineering major and I said yes. Now I know that I don't really like hardware design and that I am more interested in imaging analysis, especially of astronomical images. So, I hope that I can get an astronomy minor too. I already finished most of the physics and math classes. I already went to a meeting with someone from imaging science and talked to some students there. They already have my form for changing majors. They talked to me about other options like staying in my major and have an imaging science minor. But I told them I didn't like hardware design and wanted an astronomy minor. They said an imaging science major and an astronomy minor was possible. Now I know what I am getting into unlike when I changed to computer engineering.
Actually, the first computer engineering course I took stressed me out. I attributed it to having three classes plus three labs, which were the engineering, computer science and physics classes and labs. So I withdrew from the engineering class and took it again later. I got an A and I guess it was because I already went through more than half of the class the first time. I had the same professor both times. One time, I took a quiz and told the professor that I couldn't do it and handed it back.
After taking more classes, I was sure that I didn't like hardware design and didn't want to do that for a living. Ironically, at the end of a hardware class, we did some work with image processing using hardware description language. I liked the image processing part, but not the hardware stuff. For that hardware description language class, I got a B, but I would give myself a D. I also decided that I didn't want to do primary computer science work for a living.
Last fall, I took an electric engineering class and the university's interpreting services couldn't find a permanent sign language interpreter for me. So I withdrew after a month. They told me to wait during the first week because that was the add/drop week because maybe someone could drop a class and free up an interpreter. But I waited for longer than one week, so I needed to withdraw rather than just dropping it. And that meant no adding another class because the add/drop week was over.
I thought that was fine until they sent me a bill. They charged me $910 because after I withdrew, I wasn't a full time student, so the scholarships that required me to be full time didn't apply during the fall. I thought that the withdrawal form said that it didn't affect full time status, but I'll need to check that. If I did stay full time, maybe they considered me a part time student for the purpose of the scholarships.
Now, I have figured that I want to change majors, but I can't withdraw from the now irreverent classes because I would become part time and get billed. :trapped: At least I know what I want to do now. Before that, I would feel bad enough to feel like jumping off the 12th floor of the building where I live, which is the highest I could get to without going to downtown Rochester. :( At least I have a counselor I see weekly.
Edit: To be sure nobody royally screws up things, this post was deleted from HH before being reposted here. Nobody had replied to it yet on HH. I moved it because I didn't want to restrict discussion of this topic to HH. HH has a policy that would ban people for sharing others' private information from HH. I didn't want anyone to misread disscussions outside of HH and think that someone violated that policy when it was really me moving the post. I made this edit after I saw that one person was viewing the reported posts section of this site and I got parnoid. :eek:
Actually, the first computer engineering course I took stressed me out. I attributed it to having three classes plus three labs, which were the engineering, computer science and physics classes and labs. So I withdrew from the engineering class and took it again later. I got an A and I guess it was because I already went through more than half of the class the first time. I had the same professor both times. One time, I took a quiz and told the professor that I couldn't do it and handed it back.
After taking more classes, I was sure that I didn't like hardware design and didn't want to do that for a living. Ironically, at the end of a hardware class, we did some work with image processing using hardware description language. I liked the image processing part, but not the hardware stuff. For that hardware description language class, I got a B, but I would give myself a D. I also decided that I didn't want to do primary computer science work for a living.
Last fall, I took an electric engineering class and the university's interpreting services couldn't find a permanent sign language interpreter for me. So I withdrew after a month. They told me to wait during the first week because that was the add/drop week because maybe someone could drop a class and free up an interpreter. But I waited for longer than one week, so I needed to withdraw rather than just dropping it. And that meant no adding another class because the add/drop week was over.
I thought that was fine until they sent me a bill. They charged me $910 because after I withdrew, I wasn't a full time student, so the scholarships that required me to be full time didn't apply during the fall. I thought that the withdrawal form said that it didn't affect full time status, but I'll need to check that. If I did stay full time, maybe they considered me a part time student for the purpose of the scholarships.
Now, I have figured that I want to change majors, but I can't withdraw from the now irreverent classes because I would become part time and get billed. :trapped: At least I know what I want to do now. Before that, I would feel bad enough to feel like jumping off the 12th floor of the building where I live, which is the highest I could get to without going to downtown Rochester. :( At least I have a counselor I see weekly.
Edit: To be sure nobody royally screws up things, this post was deleted from HH before being reposted here. Nobody had replied to it yet on HH. I moved it because I didn't want to restrict discussion of this topic to HH. HH has a policy that would ban people for sharing others' private information from HH. I didn't want anyone to misread disscussions outside of HH and think that someone violated that policy when it was really me moving the post. I made this edit after I saw that one person was viewing the reported posts section of this site and I got parnoid. :eek: