I'm starting to think about kicking the can on Electrical Engineering. I'll finish this quarter, but if I don't love EECS222 (Signals and Systems), I will probably transfer to Computer Engineering or Computer Science. EE (surprisingly), is too narrow. You can either work at a defense company (Lockheed, Raytheon...), communications company (Motorola, Qualcomm), or some straight up EE company.
Most of these companies will probably have their workers just process stuff, maybe come up with new stuff, but the whole atmosphere and business model doesn't foster that much creativity. Who am I kidding...do I really want to develop MatLab algorithms for the rest of my life?
I really have to give it honest thought. I think where I want to work is some place where ideas can be put into places, interesting solutions can be implemented in a creative work atmosphere. Some start-up like Spotify...
But that's risky. Most start-ups don't make it. But really, any place that allows creativity in their business model. Looks like Computer Science, which is funny because back in HS it was always Billy the one learning coding and me bumming around.
If I sit on my ass and just learn code from classes, I'll probably end up in some boring job I hate for the rest of my life. I need to start learning code on my own, and writing my own software. It's going to be a long process, I need to learn more C++, more Java, Android's SDK, some PHP, and probably HTML...but I really want to do this. I have been putting it off for way too long.
Luckily, coursework-wise, it's not too bad to transfer from EECS major to EECS major (surprise!). CS coursework definitely seems more interesting. Human-Computer Interaction vs Digital Signal Processing. Err....
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