Just like you have to go to med school to be a doctor and law school to be a lawyer, you have to do engineering school to be an engineer. Call it a professional hazard if you like; you don’t have much of a choice in the matter. Somebody superior to you has got to endorse the papers that qualify you to build things that others are going to use.
If you are thinking engineering school is a walk in the park, think again. These schools take up several years of your life to turn you into a calculating machine. It is by no means a joke getting through them. You might want to begin working out your strategy already. I assure you, if you don’t give it what it takes, you will not get what you want from it, which is your engineering degree. All that you need to learn in design and planning, you can get in an engineering school. They also drill you in construction and in the maintenance of buildings. Isn’t that what you wanted to do? Why else would you be in an engineering school? Certainly not just to get a feel of it, because you can do that by just paying a friend a visit or something.
Getting into engineering school is not as hard as getting out. You may have thought you were all geared up and prepared for it, but when you begin to see all those figures like they are going to drive you crazy, your perspective will likely alter. Prepare your mind for the worst, because it will come, and if you are not ready for it, you will be taken by the tide.
The care of the environment is not just biology or science, it also involves engineering. That is why there are environmental engineers who make developing the environment through engineering a possibility. You’ll find a lot of them went through engineering school as well. There just is no way you want half baked individuals handling things that lives of lots of people will depend on. There are a whole lot of processes involved in engineering. There are planning, designing, fabrications, installation and so on and so forth. Well, be rest assure that all the planning and everything else that you need to do in your engineering field, they teach it to you in engineering school. All the bringing about of something, you learn them in an atmosphere that is conducive for just such. Wouldn’t you just love that?
There are so many opportunities available in engineering that it is a wonder there aren’t many more people pinning for it. It must be the fear of engineering schools; and I don’t blame them. If you had to go through that, you’ll understand how and why. They do numbers and figure till their ears fall off. I have nothing but respect for those who are able to survive it.