I think I found my calling

Natch · Post by **Natch** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:05 am

I still have to sleep over it and decide, but thanks to th15(get to that in a bit) I think I've changed my declared major for college-Still in Highschool though.

Since I've been little, I've always liked stuff like legos. I had moving lego parts before they made moving lego parts! Since I found BSF, I fell in love with shipbuilder. You guys all know I made(and still are making) some pretty awsome weapons. There's one thing though; I made those weapons within a set of rules and guidlines. If I could hack well, I could find the source code, and with a lot of work, make the weapon myself.

But I worked within the rules. And that's what a mechanical engineer does. My dad's an electrical engineer, so he works with mechanical engineers often enough. He says shipmaker is a lot like the design programs they use to create diagrams of things.

So th15, I thank you for making BSF and shipmaker, because I think I'm gonna be a mechanical engineer. It's not just BSF, there's also lots of little things I see that point towards being a mechanical engineer.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:22 am

Ah, yes, great for you. Good luck on your career.

I see I'm not the only one who could make moving lego things without moving legos... but I do believe I've lost that skill (and time).

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:31 am

Ah, for my lego days . . . 2ft Flyign Dragons of Doom.

Master Chief · Post by **Master Chief** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:56 am

Wow, you changed your declared major to mechanical engineering partly because of BSF...good luck for college, then!

Battleships Forever!

Post by **th15** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 11:58 am

Good on you man. To be honest I was this close to doing mechanical engineering myself. When I got out of the local equivalent of high school, my first choice was to do mass media studies (and I already have a diploma in that now) but every other choice on my list was mechatronics.

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:31 pm

I'm considering whether to pursue CS, mechanical engineering (I love making things WORK RIGHT . . . even if it something silly), interior design (don't laugh, I'm actually good at it), or some form of quantum engineering.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 12:34 pm

Perhaps you should be a designer of an analog computer which would use CS to design the interiors of quantum physics labs...

I'm sorry, I had to.

Iron Ham · Post by **Iron Ham** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:15 pm

Good thing you based your career on BSF, and not Halo!

Kazuael · Post by **Kazuael** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 3:30 pm

As a CS major, I'll throw in my two cents.

Debugging. Sucks.

Other than that, it's kinda fun. Be prepared to spend a lot of time debugging though.

Normandy · Post by **Normandy** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:00 am

"Debugging your program is like watching the Hindenburg all over again." ~Normandy

ChaosTheory · Post by **ChaosTheory** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:29 am

Debugging can be brutal. Especially when you write code that is supposed to DO something, like cast a shadow projection, and it doesn't do anything. Gives no hint about the problem. No possible explanations. Nada. That's what drives me nuts.

Latooni · Post by **Latooni** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:18 am

I love debugging, it's my favorite part. I used to debug other people's programs for fun. It's like a mystery story.

Yes, it can be frustrating, but never underestimate the value of a debugOn() method that lets you print out debug messages.

TormakSaber · Post by **TormakSaber** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:39 am

I know a guy that's a mechanical engineer. He said he changed his mind to it, away from.. .I forget what his original idea was, but he says changing to mehcnaical engineer was the best thing he'd ever done, and he's incredibly happy with his new job.

Good on ya.

CmdPrompt · Post by **CmdPrompt** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:15 am

Mechanical Engineers suck

Electrical Engineering 4 lyfe!

In all seriousness, engineering in general is an awesome discipline and I wish you luck.

Himura.Kenshin · Post by **Himura.Kenshin** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 7:15 am

I vote Quantum Engineering =D

EDIT: @ ChaosTheory.