I’m applying for universities this fall, so I’ve started to do research for them. I don’t have any experience with this, and I don’t really know what I should be looking for. Right now I have found all the major universities that have Bachelors in the field that I want to go into (Mechatronics), and I have added a little bit of info on each as well as their requirements in an obsidian doc, but what other info would be worth looking into and adding to my document?
(Edited to include my field of interest)
A wise mentor told me something after I left school that I wish I knew before.
It makes so much sense looking back. I personally don’t regret mine, but I do wish I would have done a minor in something creative, or history, or sociology, or something fun. Instead all of my work was for my major, and it basically made it straight sciences.
For my creative friends, I do think this would have helped too. Journalism is going to get you barely anything out of college, same thing with many art degrees. It’s not how I would have built the world, but it’s the world we have. However, that doesn’t mean don’t do it, but maybe go for web design with your true passion as a minor. Maybe major in accounting if you’re good with numbers and minor in journalism, then go make a ton of money at one of the big outlets.
I just wish I would have known then, that it’s not one or the other, but you can have variety.
I tried to get my one kid to do business marketing as opposed to media studies and publishing. Take a minor in publishing. My thought was the flexibility of a business degree would allow a path towards a CPA or if they land in publishing the marketing would be a very complementary pair. Lots of off shoot jobs could lean on it.
University can lead to a lot of debt in Canada too
Yeah not an easy place as a parent there. On one hand you want them to do what they enjoy doing, they should get whatever degree they want. On the other, they have never experience the real world and have no idea what the job market is like - and you don’t want them to leave college with a piece of paper that’s worthless either.