Re: Advice for future nuclear engineering student.

From: Axel Berger (Axel_Berger_at_b.maus.de)
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 23:33:00 +0100

*john.kc9gkq* wrote on Tue, 05-01-25 04:01:
>I'm curious to know what I can learn now in high school about the
>subject.

If I may give you a bit of advice: Nothing.
The university course does not assume any prior knowledge and you won't
leave knowing any more, so all you might gain is a little lazyness in
the first few semesters.
On the other hand you will presumably want to become not only a small
minded engineer but a well educated person. You will never have the
same chance to learn subjects you are not going to study that you have
now.
So do anything but engineering, but maths, but physics, even subjects
you are really bad at - grades aren't everything. Learn languages, art
history, history, music, philosophy, anything on offer that is far away
from university engineering.

I am an engineer by the way, ever did nuclear science as my major and
was not given the same advice in my school time. I did manage to make
up some (maybe even a lot) of that later, but it took far more time and
was far more effort. 

-- 
Tschö wa
                Axel

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