Zoe

It seems that I am facing the biggest decision that I have ever made. It is mid-March now, also a time of major choosing. I feel even more struggle than coming across science tests one after another. Someone told me just to follow my own interests as the major which I will be involved in would impact my future career and even life significantly. What the point is that I am actually not sure about my interests. I thought that I was deeply into Math until I saw the rate of employment and the mean monthly salary. Since then, I lost the interest in my Math module MA1101r rapidly and became keen on engineering.

As chemistry seems to be with the highest employment rate and salary in the analysis form, I found myself being more and more appealing to it. But soon my seniors disappointed me. She told me Chemistry Engineering and Materials Science & Engineering was found to be the one of the toughest major for Sm2 students. It only takes in one to two Sm2 students every year.

The more I knew, the more confused I am. As the NUS open house is approaching, I become extremely worried. I do not have a clear future plan, which is the most I am afraid of. I do not want to be like some of my friends in China to choose in a brash way. One of them chosen to learn civil engineering because he thought it was right down for him. But not until he began to learn in that major did he realize the huge difference between what he thought and what he was learning. He became less and less interested in his major and started to play truant. No one can imagine that he was one of the top students in my previous class. To tell from the bottom of my heart, I really do not want to be like that.

I may go to extremes in it. My parents comforted me that they were still able to support me in financial way even if I was out of job. Only parents who always keep their eyes on their children will contributed without expecting gains. Is that what I want? Or anyone can tell me, is that what you want? After your parents worked so hard for three quarters of their life, they still have to take care of yourselves? The reason why I chose science before is that students learning Math is usually easier to go abroad as Mathematics is a commonly used subject around the world. Besides, more entrepreneurs were from science majors other than being engineering students. What advantages of engineering is that it is easier for engineers to find jobs as they have not only science knowledge but practice skills. But no matter how much engineers can make, they can only be employee queens and they can only work at non-executive level unless you go back to universities to further study on managing. I am so greed that I want to have both high salaries and position. I may sometimes be so short-sighted that I cannot wait for the benefits after a long period of time; I expect to earn at once. Gosh. What shall I finally choose to get the maximum profits....