Is nursing harder than engineering?

Switching My Major from Nursing to Business and Engineering?

• I am a freshman at Drexel entering my third term of my freshman year. I am currently a nursing student and am now having doubts if I want to continue down this path. I have always loved nursing but I am finding that completing the program at Drexel isn't as ideal as I thought. I now feel that I can push myself through it just because I will end up with a career, but I will never be fully happy with my time at Drexel. I am now thinking about be a Business and Engineering Major because business is something I have always enjoyed and Engineering is another thing that I find challenging, but not like nursing challenging. Its more like I find it hard but leave my classes want to find out more because physics and math are both something that I find difficult but keeps my attentions and allows me to do well. What I am really asking is it a good move for me to switch from one major to another when they are so different? I am going to do a lot of research during my spring break before deciding what to do, but I was just interested on what people's thoughts were on doing such a move particularly anyone who is familiar with the fast pace Drexel terms.

• Answer:

  Engineering is a good degree, there's a lot you can do with it, and even though people know that, you shouldn't have to worry about jobs. There is so much work in engineering that you have to be dedicated to it to get through, I am an Electrical Engineer at UNCC, about to start my senior year. We have regular terms here, although I looked at drexel's academic plan for the engineering courses. If you enjoy math and physics you should excel at engineering, it's very different from nursing though. In engineering it's about manipulating the problem, and oftentimes the math so that a problem is solvable, along with understanding the physics of what is happening with the device you're working on. From what I understand nursing is work, but a lot of memorization and not a lot of actual deriving and problem solving thought. It's a different mindset, but if you're getting bored and looking for a challenge, engineering is it. Business degrees go really well with engineering, many companies, including large companies like bank of america, look for CEOs and managers that are engineers because of the problem solving skill that we learn in school. I have several friends that earned engineering degrees and then went to work as managers or something making 6 figures. There are many other ways business and engineering work together too. Just so you know, there'll be A LOT of work at drexel. it looks like a good program, but to smash that much material into a year will take some work. Most engineers at regular schools don't have very large social lives outside of school, just because there isn't time to get everything done and then go party or run to the mountains on the weekends. It looks like some courses are split up because of the shorter time, but some, like calculus courses are not. You need to be prepared for some WORK.