The thing I was most passionate about was going into programming/game designing; all my years of making starcraft games and such has developed such a passion. However, when I look at it realistically, it seems more like a dream rather than a reality.
Only the best can successfully do such things. Going into an industry must be the ultimate dream of millions of people, especially gamers. The thing is, alot of people who go into such things have years and years of programming experience. I on the otherhand have none. I
may have the game designing experience, but when it comes to the more important aspect, programming, that's where I fail. Starcraft campaign editor is nothing NEAR programming. I only started learning C++ about a year ago, but have still a LONG way to go when it comes down to learning the basics. Also, I am not a computer-geek. I know almost nothing about computers, this definately will not help me with my programming/game designing learning experience.
However, I decided to use my abilities/experience for something else and so that's why I ended up with Engineering. I feel as though my abilities to critically think, analyze, and design things can be used within the Field of Engineering (the only problem is, I wasn't quite sure which specific engineering I wanted to do. I was torn between Civil, Mechanical, and Aerospace but in the end I chose Civil). At first I was oblivious to Electrical/Computer Engineering; I've been told by numerous people that it's hard as shit and that many ppl drop out of it so I didn't really get a chance to know what it truly was. But after seeing what my friends in EE/Computer engineering are doing, it's almost parallel to Computer Science and to some extent, programming/game designing. If I had the choice now, I probably would've considered doing EE (or more in particular, computer engineering) since it seems more similar to my original passion than what I am doing in Civil Engineering. But again, it's highly competitive, and already having computer/programming experience truly helps one in that field, and that's where I fall behind in.
So as far as these Programming or Game Designing schools go, well I do not know too much about them, but if I wanted to do something similar to that kind of stuff, I would pick Computer Science or Electrical/Computer Engineering; both seem to be safer choices but do similar stuff. As for me, I will just see how I like my Civil Engineering as this semester/year progresses. If I like it, ill stay with it. If not, Ill look into something else.
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