u/Spiritual-Equal2348

i initially was turned off by engineering because i struggled a lot in AP Physics 1 but while scrolling through the courses for industrial engineering and construction engineering and management it doesn’t even seem like there’s that many physics classes

am i misinterpreting what all the classes do or something

im interested in engineering in general bc it allows you to do a specific role you wouldn’t be able to do otherwise without an engineering degree but also allows you to do stuff outside engineering and obv the pay and stability is probably the best among all bachelor’s degrees unless you’re doing some super niche engineering major

i’m also interested in majoring in statistics bc i just think comparing and ranking stuff and looking at the data behind things is kind of cool and obviously it’s different from industrial engineering but i feel like they overlap a little?

how difficult is industrial engineering in general and when compared to other engineering degrees? obv it’ll be difficult and a lot of work but i need a 3.5 gpa to transfer to the college of engineering at the university im going to

i’m average at math. i had ap calculus bc this year and it wasn’t something i understood intuitively and not my best class but it also wasn’t that difficult for me once i sat down and spent some time on it and if i end up not passing the ap exam it’ll be bc i didn’t spend enough time studying for it and not bc i struggled with the content throughout the year

is it realistic to take 17-19 credit hours per semester for industrial engineering? my school offers a flat tuition rate for 12-19 credit hours and i wanna take advangage of that

ik this is the industrial engineering subreddit but if anyone has any thoughts on construction engineering and management that would be appreciated too

i’m a high school senior and although i like all my classmates decently and think they’re all cool im not really friends with any of them and it’ll feel really awkward two weeks from now after the graduation ceremony when i go to my parents and brother and they’ll wonder why i wanna go home instead of take photos then get mad at me once they realize i have no friends

the only idea i have is to build up the theme that i have a really bad headache the day before graduation and say i feel really tired the entire time the day of graduation before the ceremony bc the ceremony is at night but i don’t think that’ll work and they’ll still be confused and try to force me to stay and think i have no friends

my brother and dad half assume i have no friends anyway so idk what to do

edit: does anyone or has anyone really not felt that much around the end of high school? i was leaving school right after the graduation practice before everyone went on to do like fun senior activities and someone was confused why i was leaving and i feel a little weird not even feeling that much like i feel less than i did when i graduated middle school i think and back then i also didn’t feel that much i think it’s partially bc im going straight to college so this doesn’t feel like a big deal

besides masters degrees that allow you to do a job that you wouldn’t have been able to do at all without it (ex: therapy), how important are they? are they something that’s becoming more required or are they just a resume booster? can someone with a similar skillset to a person with a bachelor’s degree earn considerably more money just by having a master’s?

i’m a high schooler going to college next year and idk what i’ll major in yet and i mean this as a general question not just pertaining to me but im somewhere between engineering, construction management, and statistics

i’m a high school senior going to virginia tech for exploratory studies next year who’s interested in transferring to one of these three majors

i’m interested in construction management since it seems important and something ai wouldn’t be able to take and would like to know the differences between these three majors

are these majors difficult, and how difficult are they compared to other majors in the college of engineering? i was initially turned off by construction management since i was horrible in my AP Physics 1 class and am average at math and maybe i’m misinterpreting what the classes do but scrolling through these three there’s barely any physics classes? statics isn’t even a class in building construction

ik it’s quite different but im also interested in industrial engineering since it seems to emphasize physics less than other engineering degrees so any thoughts on its comparative difficulty would be appreciated

how difficult is it to transfer into the college of engineering for any of these degrees? all i need to know is that i need a 3.5+ gpa for guaranteed transfer. if i don’t get that, is it difficult to transfer competitively? what do i need? do spots fill up really quickly?

i also want to take as many credit hours as possible (18-19) per semester to graduate earlier and save money but if i can’t for whatever reason that’s fine too as long as i can do it in four years or less. most of my stuff from ap classes don’t go towards anything for any of the major requirements but fill up some of the gen eda like english and social sciences

at my school, there is also a degree called “Building Construction” and another called “Construction Safety Management” all also in the college of engineering? idk the differences between those two and construction management

i’m interested in construction management but struggled a lot in AP Physics 1 and am average at math. how difficult are these degrees compared to each other? which provides the best job opportunities? are they as difficult as other engineering degrees?

also, how much math is involved in each degree? obviously it’s engineering so there’ll be lots of math but i’m worried the more a major focuses upon purely math the more difficult it’ll be for me to be interested in it but idk

ive taken AP Calculus BC which is equivalent to Calc 2 and even if i don’t get credit for it I feel like I understood the course content pretty well unit to unit and if i don’t get credit it’s just bc i didn’t study enough for the actual exam

part of why i’m interested in construction management is bc it seems less prone to getting replaced by AI so any thoughts on that would be nice

edit: i’m also considering industrial engineering which is obv different if anyone has any thoughts on that

i keep seeing people talk about how humanities degrees will be more valued as AI advances and critical thinking becomes more necessary and i’ve seen some stuff talking about how employers are now valuing a liberal arts education and i’m wondering if there’s any truth to this or if it’s just people trying to justify the value of the humanities

not that the humanities aren’t important either way ofc

the default advice given to anyone unsure what to major in is to major what they’re interested in but most of what people are exposed to at school or by the people around them doesn’t really seem to directly connect to a specific field or subject major unless people beyond what their parents do and reading stuff online doesn’t give the feeling of what it’s like actually majoring in it or pursuing the field related to that major

like for example how are you supposed to know if you’re interested in accounting if no one around you is an accountant and nothing you do in school has anything to do with accounting and you haven’t lived long enough to likely have a strong opinion upon what kind of work lifestyle you want

and what kind of people do you think of when you think of certain majors

i’m making fictional characters and they’re college age and i’m thinking what majors i wanna give them

i’m a high school senior and although i like all my classmates decently and think they’re all cool im not really friends with any of them and it’ll feel really awkward two weeks from now after the graduation ceremony when i go to my parents and brother and they’ll wonder why i wanna go home instead of take photos then probably get mad at me once they realize i have no friends

the only idea i have is to build up the theme that i have a really bad headache the day before graduation and say i feel really tired the entire time the day of graduation before the ceremony bc the ceremony is at night but i don’t think that’ll work and they’ll still be confused and think i have no friends

my brother and dad half assume i have no friends anyway so idk what to do

i’m 17m and i’ve noticed that i think a lot more about friends who are women and have generally made more effort to become friends with people who are women. i don’t really know why

it’s not like im consciously trying to become friends with them with the intention to date them, although i guess it’s not out of the question some subconscious part of me might think that. i don’t really consciously perceive men and women that differently and don’t think there’s any personality advantages or anything like that when becoming friends with women. it’s not like i have anything against being friends with men or am scared of them. whenever my friend cuts me off or i cut someone off and i try to go back to them the friend i go back to is always a woman. most of my close-ish friends online have been women and for the only two that weren’t one of them is gay and i thought they were a woman at first and the second one i also thought was a woman at first and is kind of feminine. obviously being gay doesn’t make you a woman or more feminine but maybe there’s some subconscious part of me that perceives him more like a woman?

im talking strictly online bc irl all my friends have been men but all my friendships irl have been initiated by the other person so idk if thats relevant

i intend to major in statistics and my school has given me these requirements for a laptop on the website but i feel like they might be overkill

OS: windows 11 (64 bit) / macOS 13 or higher
processor: intel i-series (11th gen or newer) / amd ryzen 6000 series or higher / apple m2 or higher
ram: 16+ gb
storage: 500+ gb ssd

would it be possible for me to just use an iPad or a chromebook for stats? my iPad Pro is only a few years old and i don’t want to just toss my chromebook. as far as i can tell there aren’t any specific windows only or mac only things that i need

edit: looking at the replies im not gonna use my ipad for stats so should i get a macbook or windows or does it not matter

i really really really really really want to avoid becoming like anyone in my family and i dont want to see myselves in them in any way at all

my dad and both my brothers have this weird pride in being really good at math and ive never been that and i dont like math at all and i just think its dumb and my brother is always trying to one up my dad and my dad and other brother are grown men who have weird pride in their math abilities from when they were kids and it makes me uncomfortable

i dont want to be an engineer bc my dad has an engineering degree

i dont want to go into tech bc my dad was a software engineer for most of his career and both my brothers majored in cs

i dont want to go into business stuff bc my dad owns a business and my brother works for him and my other brother has tried starting a business and it all feels weird to me and even if they werent in that i cant see myself in stuff like that at all and i hate the idea of sales and forcing connections and finance and ive always wanted to avoid stuff like that since i was a kid

i dont want to go into analytical stuff bc my dad has always done stuff like that

i dont want to go into healthcare bc my mom has always for some reason seen me going into it and i think shes just projecting what she wanted for herself onto me and i have no desire to help people or be in a hospital or do anything like that or be always stressed and i dont want to fit my parents image of me when i feel like they dont see me the right way

i dont want to go to grad school bc although im ok at school (4.03 w/3.62 uw/1370 sat) i cant see myself going that far or caring about something enough to pursue it that long or paying for all that

theres nothing i have some deep passion for or interest in

theres a negative chance theyll let me try to go into the trades or take a gap year or go to cc

im taking ap classes and ill probably have enough credits to cut a year off if theres enough allowance for free electives and my dad might be paying for my brother to go back to college even though looking at the fafsa he probably would have to go into debt so id like to avoid anything credit heavy if possible

ive taken some career tests and they dont really help me or give me stuff i think id like

idk what im doing and ive basically crossed out everything

im in the US if that matters