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how about this? http://rocketcontest.org/ It seems like it's an american rocketry competition for high school students and even Obama attended. Scroll down and you can see the map with all the locations of the teams, look for a participating team near your location and click on the dot to get...

I guess it just depends on whether you want to go work in finance or just keep on doing physics. If you can answer this you can also choose the second major.

don't be too confrontational and really, just pay more attention to stuff. Professors never get tired of repeating to read carefully and people keep doing it wrong. Some people just can't help it, that's why it happens every time. You can try not to be that person though. Forgetting to hand-in...

maybe the practical problem of admission will solve the issue for you. If they say you have to take some bachelor courses because your degree did not feature stuff they consider necessary, you may have to take courses that are not in English depending on the university and courses. Maybe one...

so just so we're clear, you want to continue working 6 to 18 everyday, and add online courses in engineering on top?

by the end of secondary school you've been exposed to all three and you're maybe able to see which of the three are you best at and which you like the most (beyond the question of what to do with it). Which country are you from? If you're from the US, the first year should be quite flexible if...

When you don't know stuff, just admit it and guide them towards finding a solution, this will promote curiosity and self-discovery. Computer savvy people are savvy only because they know how to describe their problem properly and use google. The scientific method (see first post) When you see...

some professors are like this and it's hard or impossible to maintain good feelings towards them when it happens. You just have to go through with it. What happens in the end is that when it comes to optional courses, students start avoiding certain professors. It sounds stupid and immature...

that is true, but to be successful in getting the degree, you have to like studying for it and attending the courses. Besides, programs that make you end up in a programming career contain lots of programming courses themselves so it's not a totally wrong indicator. Mechanical engineering is...

Dabbled around in visual basic as a teen and got introduced to the concepts, then I learned C, MATLAB and some assembly (mostly understanding how it works and edit it, not actually writing code from scratch) in university.

I suggest you look at what courses those degrees feature and see what attracts you the most.

technically a blimp is aircraft. Here's your human powered aircraft notice its speed even in a hangar with no wind.

the way you are being taught makes me think the teacher is a CS/CE open source diehard linux fanbody. Usually they teach programming like this to software engineering students who must not be bound to tools and interfaces, not the others. But you shouldn't worry, as long as you're learning the...

The idea that chinese is going to be an important language is debatable, but if you like China and the culture it's certainly an option that can be useful professionally. German and French are your targets if you want to work in Europe in aeronautics since they bring expats to Hamburg and they...

sure but then it's a design course. Technical universities offer industrial design degrees but it's not an engineering course. If he loves maths and likes programming a design degree may not satisfy him. Still, he hasn't made clear for what reasons he likes engineering. Plenty of people who...