[akula]

Things to avoid:

- Girls in accounting
- Double degrees
- Corporate Law

Trust me, you won't regret it

[sicnarftea]

DOUBLE DEGREE = KILLER, you don't need it most of the time anyways

i dunno about the girls though, having them as company is good

[JRayers]

How about Engineering? Any inside info there? Heading off to Sydney Uni (hopefully) this year and wondering whether I chose the most boring course available.

[akula]

go to http://studentface.com.au/join/hotblogger

click "registration"

register on the site

go and join the engineering group or do a search to find heaps of engineers at usyd

send them a msg, and they'll tell you what engineering is like at usyd

[The Stealthy One]

Originally Posted by akula

Things to avoid:

- Girls in accounting
- Double degrees
- Corporate Law

Trust me, you won't regret it

Heh, sounds like there's a good story behind that.

[akula]

hhah

getting dumped by a 3rd year actuary and dropping out of a biz/law because she got the hots for some securities attorney

just joking

[sicnarftea]

i wouldn't recommend engineering (i did software engineering / arts, but dropped arts, i don't even know why i did it)

[RichFromYourHome]

I WOULD recommend engineering. I found it very interesting!

Plus, it is a practical degree that will teach you to logically solve problems. Also, it's generally a very employable degree (should you be interested in being an employee).

[sicnarftea]

Well, doesn't seem to be working very well where I am currently, i guess it depends on the society you live in, Australia is a very "behind" country.

For me, as a programmer, its probably best for you to learn .net and java, instead of things you will never use in life, ie B, Pascal, C, Haskell (or something). Its like, what the hell is the point in learn that? Doesn't help you at all.

I mean C is good since after that, everything becomes very easy, but the thing thats going to land you a job or help you create effective websites/windows apps is .net (1.1, 2.0, and above)

But thats just my opinion

[Jason G]

JRayers,

You need to be more specific. (e.g. Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Software, etc, etc.)

i wouldn't recommend engineering (i did software engineering / arts, but dropped arts, i don't even know why i did it)

The reason Sicnarftea disliked Software Engineering is probably he wasn't passion about his field.

My background is a double E (Electrical Engineering) and I absolutely love it. I work for a defense company, so we design new state of the art products for the military.


Anyway, good luck with your career JRayers