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500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.
im 31 and im considering going to school for mechanical engineering because it seems like it would get me a decent paying job, I did a few semesters of community college a few years ago and did well but I ran out of time for it. The math stuff is my only real concern because college algebra is like the highest math ive ever taken, but I really just don't know what else to bother with pursuing

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500excf type r
Mar 7, 2013

I'm as annoying as the high-pitched whine of my motorcycle, desperately compensating for the lack of substance in my life.

Hello Sailor posted:

I realized at age 35 that I wanted to be an environmental engineer. Knocked out the first half of my school's degree requirement at a community college that had a transfer program specifically set up for the university I wanted to attend. I'm just finishing my first week of classes at the university today.

Gonna be 40 when I graduate, but it's better than being 41, or 45, or not doing it at all. My classmates at the CC were pretty chill about me being an old fart and I haven't seen anything different here yet.

what were you doing with your life prior to that? I have a wife and kids and a cushy 'government' desk job that has great pay and benefits but with a use it or lose GI bill deadline looming in the next few years I feel like I really should try for more than a diploma and two semesters of CC. The program I am interested is a 2 year engineering degree with a built in transfer to a state university for a 4yr degree with the caveat that no grade can have ever been lower than a C and the average has to be at least a B but my big hang up is a lot of advanced math I have never had to learn or do before. I am not bad at math, I just don't know if I could do it without having ever done it before :/

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