Ok, I'll be an engineer cos everyone else is one!

I can't believe someone would actually ask me to talk to her 17 year old daughter who wants to do chem eng...u know, as an experienced person who can probably give her daughter good advice. I find it hilarious but of course, me being the polite person that I am, I agreed to talk to her.

My first instinct was to grab her by the shoulders and scream "DON'T DO ITTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT". I really wanted to. Especially after I asked why she wanted to do engineering and she replied "oh cos all my siblings are doing eng". Oh dear.

I told her the truth. I said it's hard but if u have interest, it should be ok. It's not impossible to do well, just not easy. But boy was that girl naive. It made me wonder if I was like that when I was 17. I probably was. I thought ok, I did well in school, how hard can uni be? HAH! Try VERY! When I was 17, I knew to study and to do well. I didn't think do I really like this subject? Do I want to be looking at numbers for the rest of my life? I just knew I had to get A's and that was it. On top of that you have other things going on in your life that might distract u. Sure there were boys in school but as u get older u meet way more complicated ones. Or rather more odd ones. Or maybe I got complicated. Either ways, it ain't good! You start questioning everything and when that happens, u're basically screwed.

I've been confused as to what I'm trying to achieve with my life for a few years now. I still have no answers. But I know one thing. Do not do chem eng!