Probably would have gone to a better school and either gone the med school path or business and then either law or MBA. I didn't really have much direction when I came to school so I made some mistakes, fucked up a few times, and generally lacked focus until about my junior year and then got my shit squared away. If I had to do it again I probably would have taken a year off between HS and college to figure out what I really wanted to do rather than just jump into college with a half assed plan.


Meh, it's ok, I can still get the MBA sometime in the next couple of years and hopefully have someone else pay for it. It's not like I'm unsatisfied with my life, but I certainly have regrets/things I would have done differently.

2/15/2009 7:47:42 AM

as for different majors: mech eng or bio eng as well doubling with a language

other stuff done different during college: study more, travel more

2/15/2009 10:33:03 AM

I'da actually done geography or art, since engineering f'ed up my collegiate career something fierce

2/15/2009 11:09:47 AM

I wouldn't have switched majors, IE was the right one for me. I would have worked a hell of a lot harder my first 2 years of school. I basically played GPA catch-up for the next 2.5 years.

I guess it really doesn't matter now since I ended up where I wanted to be (in a solid MBA program) but I had to work 3x harder to get here.

2/15/2009 11:22:14 AM

I would have stayed on the same track (grad school in chemistry), but I would have tried to double in English Lit. I got too caught up in my GPA while I was there, and I did not really give myself a chance to branch out and study some of my other favorite subjects.

[Edited on February 15, 2009 at 11:33 AM. Reason : o]

2/15/2009 11:32:15 AM

Quote :

"not at walmart. any other pharmacy sure, but not walmart. i'm a pharm-d and from speaking to people that have worked there, they offer you the bottom of the barrel (as they do for everyone) when it comes to pay and benefits."

i'll tell my friend who got his first salary at 125k from walmart with a 5k signing bonus that some guy on the internet called him a liar

oh and he's already had two raises

[Edited on February 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM. Reason : seen the proof, g]

2/15/2009 12:17:13 PM

if i had to do it all over again, i would get a less time consuming degree in undergrad that somewhat related to architecture - maybe history/anthropology/etc. and then get the track 3 degree and call it done with a masters in 3 years. plus having a background in something else might be interesting.

2/15/2009 3:33:26 PM

I would do fisheries and wildlife. I know there is no $$ in it, but I would certainly love the material

2/15/2009 3:34:59 PM

so an MBA at the same time as my reg. masters so i'd have both.

2/15/2009 3:40:36 PM

there are two what if scenarios for me

1. still go to the naval academy and major in physics instead of polisci
2. go to washington & lee where I was recruited to play lacrosse and major in biology

[Edited on February 15, 2009 at 5:17 PM. Reason : .]

2/15/2009 5:16:35 PM

Same major (Mathematics rocks),

I would of not dated my first girlfriend and college

2/15/2009 5:22:01 PM

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"YOU CAN IMMEDIATELY BE MAKING 125,000 JUST TO COUNT PILLS AT WALMART"

you seriously think that Walmart would pay somebody $125K/year to count pills?

2/15/2009 6:19:20 PM

Quote :

"I would do fisheries and wildlife. I know there is no $$ in it, but I would certainly love the material"

The fish and wildlife service in Hawaii pays 60k starting with a cost of living supplement

2/15/2009 7:04:04 PM

I would go into the golf management program ... become a head pro, and play golf as a career ...

No doubt

2/15/2009 7:28:34 PM

Quote :

"i'll tell my friend who got his first salary at 125k from walmart with a 5k signing bonus that some guy on the internet called him a liar oh and he's already had two raises [Edited on February 15, 2009 at 12:18 PM. Reason : seen the proof, g]"

that's great, but the majority of the people i know in the industry get offers from walmart ranging from 70k to 90k and that's BULLSHIT.

cvs offers 125k with great benefits starting, but that's b/c they work you like a dog. you ask for what you want after you've worked for a few years. for wal-mart, it's a take it or leave it thing. they could care less if you are shitty.

walmart doesn't offer market rate ANYTHING. even managers get paid less than market. thanks for playing.

[Edited on February 15, 2009 at 7:49 PM. Reason : i will say that women get paid much less in this industry though. weird.]

2/15/2009 7:47:53 PM

I would have started in natural resources, marine and coastal, instead of switching into it from marine geology. i also would have worked harder to get better grades my freshman and sophomore years.

haven't finished my MS yet, so no verdict on that.

2/15/2009 9:07:52 PM

would have double majored in ME and EE without slacking as much as i did

still gone to grad school

maybe shot for a different institution

2/15/2009 9:16:10 PM

Quote :

"I would have done EE/CPE instead of CSC"

also graduating earlier would have been a LOT smarter financially...

[Edited on February 15, 2009 at 9:17 PM. Reason : .]

2/15/2009 9:17:11 PM

i dunno... i really, really love what i do (clinical social work). i think the only thing i would have done differently was study abroad for a semester or year, instead of just a summer.

2/15/2009 9:17:49 PM

done my coop differently

maybe hooked up with a girl i didnt freshman year

not slacked off sophmore year

2/15/2009 9:34:14 PM

would have picked something easy and partied all the time

2/17/2009 9:26:58 AM

i would have lived on campus longer. i was in such a hurry to move off-campus (and be "cool" and have my own apartment) that i didn't truly realize the kind of friendships i'd be giving up. living in the dorms, you meet so many new people, and there's always someone around to hang out with or walk to dinner with. i moved off-campus and got an apartment and realized i didn't have nearly as many people to converse with. that, and moving off-campus cut my concentration in half, or worse. grades went down because i didn't do as much studying.

2/17/2009 10:49:26 AM

i would have started in either bio-engineering and switched to bio-medical or done biology right off the bat (possibly bio-engineering + biology)

2/19/2009 9:27:24 AM

i would have known what the hell industrial design is
and that THAT is what i wanted to major in, not engineering. a ton of our grad students in ID have engineering degrees. turns out what a lot of us thought would open up to us through engineering only really happens in the design world.

but i guess thats what a track 3 grad program is for... and thousands of $$ in debt.

2/22/2009 10:09:28 PM

I have a math degree, but I would have done mechanical engineering...the pure math classes almost killed me, and I couldnt switch to applied math b/c it was too late

2/22/2009 10:14:27 PM

Quote :

" If you had a chance to start college again ..."

You couldn't pay me enough...

... but I wouldn't change a thing

2/23/2009 12:36:38 AM

I'm enjoying being a history major, but I would have went right after high school instead of waiting for my high school class to graduate from college before I went back.

2/23/2009 1:32:02 AM

Quote :

"you seriously think that Walmart would pay somebody $125K/year to count pills? "

yes

i should note, he works at a store in the middle of NOWHERE

[Edited on February 24, 2009 at 1:07 AM. Reason : fucker has lived in his parents basement for the last 3 years, banking all that loot]

2/24/2009 1:05:14 AM

i would finish it

2/24/2009 1:10:33 AM