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Johnbosco1:
I'll tell you a story.

There's this girl who aced all her subjects in secondary school.

Not just acing but award-worthy educational success.

She was so good that at her Junior Secondary 3 (JSS 3) level, she was solving mathematical problems from Senior Secondary 1 & 2 (SS 1 & 2) curriculum.

1st Mistake

She loved Maths & computers but was admitted into the university to study Geology.

Today, she still thinks she would have been a computer/statistics wizard if she'd been allowed to just study Math or Computer Engineering. You know - subjects where she doesn't have to always cram some qualitative garbage but provide quantitative solutions.

2nd Mistake

When she got into the university, she realized she didn't have to study very hard. Very few people were bothering to anyway. She was extremely smart & could hold her own but it became easier to combine intellectual efforts with other students at assignments, tests & final exams.

The system allowed it.

All her friends did it so, why fight it?

3rd Mistake

While at school, no one ever taught her how to write a résumé or successfully approach interviews.

She, just like everyone around her wanted a good life but the system pretty much set them up to fail.

When she graduated, she met a professional at an international oil & gas company who asked her what she wanted to do in life & to explain her undergraduate degree experience but she was not prepared for that.

She gave answers which were weak, mostly incoherent, lacked precision or clarity.

She'd never thought of herself in that light.

The internet wasn't readily accessible back then so she was pretty much left on her own with her fellow ignorant peers.

She also had a great & supportive family who she leaned on.

Luckily for her, she got some mentors, then left the country for her masters degree.

At 1st, she struggled at her Canadian university.

Correcting her 2nd mistake

She had to actually learn all those skills & resources she didn't bother with back in Nigeria due to combined students’ efforts.

She had to read all those textbooks she never bothered with in her Nigerian university in order to excel at her program.

Correcting her 3rd mistake

She also met lecturers whose method of teaching was about empowering students to run with their ideas.

It wasn't about multiple choice questions but making a case of why Case A is better/worse than Case B.

It made her actually think for the 1st time in her life. She learned how to make great presentations. It was a confidence boost. It was exhilarating!

She learned about plagiarism which is a very despicable thing. She also learned about self-development, professional development & presentations.

She learned it was ok to make decisions, make mistakes & then learn from them.

She became comfortable working alone & also with a team. She learned the power of independence.

She was a different person.

She became more confident about her thoughts & ideas. No one laughs at her mistakes nor condemns her for them.

Her bosses don't care about always being right or barking orders at those under them. Team contributions is crucial, encouraged & needed.

Everybody is equal. No one feared anyone. It was a healthy environment. She was valued. She freely runs her program the way she sees fit.

This is a story of a lady I read on quora.

there's no correcting my 1st mistake, she said. If I ever do, I'll tell a story about it.

Her First Mistake was her greatest mistake which she believed cannot be corrected or at least had been so late given her achievements and age. While I see her reasons, I'm inclined to say swiftly that some have been there and were able to find themselves back to their dreams. If you asked them how they were able to do that, they would say, well we realized that it's never too late to do or not do anything so we retraced our steps back from where we started our journey. It's simple but it takes COURAGE! You on the other hand now has the privilege to change and reshape your future, and embrace your passion for the better before you term it as being "too late", Why don't you take it? What could be more important? Don't you know that realising your passion at this stage is an opportunity which will bring open doors. Chimamanda would say "just try", so why don't you try.

If you read this, you'd understand how the Nigerian system encourages laziness & might discourage talent because of envy, pride and incompetent scholars.

Many Nigerian graduates are victims of their own underdeveloped & redundant society.

Pascal, Assembly language, VB and Fortran didn't help us because they were outdated even before we began our journey so don't find comfort in them. Strive to acquire new trends and you will never regret taking this bold step.

Maybe with the internet, a few might self-improve. Otherwise, they're unemployable because there's very few competent people to teach and direct them better.

Note to any Nigerian student reading this - don't take the easy way out. Read not just to pass your examinations but to actually know and don't rely on only what you are being thought in college.

You'd be truly a better person & student for it.

Good luck

Thanks so much. This really made my day!

emeernest:
In the long run in life, 1 or 2 years lost doesn't really matter.

If you believe you have the zeal to complete Mech Eng, then do that and thereafter do PGD/Masters in Computer or related field.
Else switch immediately to Computer.
As i said the few years lost will not matter much in the long run.

Good luck.

If I had the zeal, I'd not be here looking for some pieces of advice.

I've continually asked myself what I'd specifically do with thermodynamics and fluid mechanics, not that I don't know them nor that I don't know the application areas, but the thing is that I'm not particularly interested in working in those areas.

Everytime, I think about doing something with computers and solving lots of maths and looking for ways to interpret maths in virtually everything I do.

Thanks bro, I'd make a move towards comp science then.

chloride6:
Who is lying to you?

Oil and gas beats anything in this country anyday anytime. You think you are in the US?

If he was in the US, Computer Science would definitely be better, but in the Nigeria, Engineering is far better.

The best developers here are those that manage the few large and inbetween projects that come along.

The rest are at Andela doing what?

Oil will still be king in this country for at least in the next 20 years.

I'm doing this to also stand a better chance in getting a fully funded scholarship with a first class to advance my studies abroad.
I'm not particularly thinking in the area of working for anyone.

Lifeoffjay16:
Electrical and electronics is the bomb. Abandon mechanical and choose computer immediately. Mechanical has the fewest opportunities. But if you hit in mechanical, no engineer will be richer than you.

I'd love to move to Elect but due to some reasons, I wouldn't be doing that. Reason also being that I would stay extra 2yrs in school as compared to staying extra 1yr in comp science.

I'd always borrow courses from Elect to complement my comp science in the area of electronics and microcontrollers.

I simply thought I'd fight over my nonchalant attitude towards machines but I couldn't.

I appreciate everyone's input and I'd like to thank the mods for moving this to the front page swiftly...

I want to stay in academics as I'm quite academical and also bridge between the industry and academics.

I had always considered the fact that I've always been affected if dive into computer science deeply while still being in mechE.

So, I thought, maybe I should just stay in computer science and not multitasking myself in doing both mechE and comp sci.

https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422


I need you guys' inputs here, please....

Help a nairalander make a decision.

Mulatta:
What school

Giving out the name of the school would mostly reveal my identity...

I want advice which is mutually exclusive from the school I attend. It's a federal university.

https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422


I need you guys' inputs here, please....

Help a nairalander make a decision.

Mulatta:
Try mechatronics

My school doesn't offer it.

https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422


I need you guys' inputs here, please....

Help a nairalander make a decision.


Here's not a place for this but I'm posting it here because you all are aligned to education.

https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422


I need you guys' inputs here, please....

Help a nairalander make a decision.

https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422


I need you guys' inputs here, please....

Help a nairalander make a decision.

I need you guys' inputs here please...


https://www.nairaland.com/4792693/mechanical-engineering-computer-science#72161422

Thanks @dwilliams707 and @mightysparrow. Thanks guys for the input.
I've completely lost interest in MechE except for two courses, mechanics of machines and machine designs. Which are the integral part of robotics and mostly the only courses needed in robotics from mechE.

I need more inputs guys. As this is currently affecting my studies this semester.

Lalasticlala, mynd44, fynesboi

I'd need a candid advice on this nairalanders. I'm a 300L mechanical engineering student but after my 200L, I noticed I was no more drawn to mechanical engineering as I'd have to do some courses I've no interest in.

So far, the only courses I've come to really like in mechanical engineering is mechanics, strength of material and machine designs. Reason being that I want to major in robotics.

I've had thoughts of switching to electrical and electronics engineering because of my interest in embedded systems. But, it'd take me back to 200l and I'd have to spend extra 2yrs in school. But I thought of borrowing some courses from Elect and then switching over to computer science as I've been into programming that it makes me drop my mechanical engineering's textbooks too often.

Because I had lost some money last year and my detachment from mechanical engineering, I had dropped from 1st class to 2.1 which stands at impeding my chance of getting a scholarship to further my studies in Robotics. I will not be able to come up to a first class unless I borrow tons of courses. Being that scholarships are highly competitive, I'm considering switching to computer science because it harbours my love for programming and electronics. I'm 25, and considering that I'd drop down to 200L as opposed to the 400l I'm heading towards, I was supposed to graduate by '20 but I'd be graduating by '21 if I change to computer science which is just a year difference. By then, I'd be 28.

Am I making the right choice? I really don't have the passion for mechanical again. I need some pieces of advice and possible outcomes of my decision.

josh005:
Bro will u sell for 35k

I'm the one selling...


Why not hit me on whatsapp?

We could haggle the price on whatsapp

toyinpin:
hi bro,can you help sell for 30k for a student like you with limited funds? Thank you

It's not gonna go for the price like I told you on whatsapp...

Still available

More pictures

I'm selling this tab because I've got need for money and would be not needing it since I recently acquired an inverter system to power my laptop.
Mainly, I bought this tab to be of great assistance to aid my reading, but since I got an inverter system installed to power my laptop, the tab is becoming kinda redundant.

It's come with a stylus pen for those who enjoy taking notes.
It's a 3gb ram and 32gb memory baby.
It's a Wi-Fi baby

This baby goes for as low as 60k, slightly negotiable.

I'm based in Ibadan.


Hit me off with
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I'm in 200L, mechanical engineering in a federal university. My secondary school friend(Let me call him N) who graduated last year, 2017, told me about a scheme his neighbor/brother/friend(Let me call the neighbor A. A's and N's parents live in the same building in Onitsha) introduced him to. A and N are from the same kindred, so they grew up almost being brothers and as well friends. A was a class ahead of me and N. So I knew A right from when I was in secondary school. A is so calm, reserved and unimaginably quiet. A was also the leader of the children wing of his church, Anglican Church precisely. So A, to my perception is too religious.

A got admitted a year before N and I got admitted two years after N. N was close to my best friend.

So fast forward to the status quo. N told me about a scheme A told him about. He said A told him that his friend(A's friend, who happen to be a 400L agricultural economics in UNN. A is a 500L law student in the same UNN ) got an agricultural grant from United Nations which is worth more than 150m naira. But that they needed 25m to process it. A told N that if he could provide 50k, he'll be getting 200k after the processing of the grant. N told me about it and I told him that the deal is too good to be true. I told N that I don't think he should go ahead with it. But being that N knows A very well, it might be true. So N didn't go ahead with the deal.

Buchi07:
Oct 15

I'm 15 Oct too. Nice meeting you

LadyGoddiva:
I jump and pass!

you don't need to do that...

I should be the one to jump and run!

NoFavors:
ok. So you're saying you like her because she dates anything and she likes you too? Grow up son

I won't quote you again...


Trying to be funny, but just know that your stupidity makes devil cry

NoFavors:
But I'm serious. She dates anything

If after the bolded you couldn't decipher my message, I doubt your sense of reasoning.

You really need help!

NoFavors:
you can have ladygoddiva. She's slightly not beautiful and she looking for husband. Trust me, she will like you. She dates anything

Next time, when trying to be sarcastic, mind your choice of words.

I find the bolded very offensive and reeks immaturity!

Blackhawk01:

You didn't take me serious, did you?

Actually, I did take you serious.
Why wouldn't I take you serious

tosyne2much:
But my moniker no suppose dey dia nah baba

he probably may have known what you could be up to...

mention dem girls moniker here na, so that they could get to meet a nice guy.

Does it mean that none of the girls in nairaland met the above criteria?
But on a serious note, I'm seriously serious with this.

Blackhawk01:
Lol. Really?
Oya, lemme call you.

Ohhh, I wouldn't mind...
I'll be expecting your call

Tuham:
As regards the girl you earlier mentioned, you can start from there.. try to Respond when she initiate convo and also bring up a convo that interest the both of you if she doesn't start one in the first place

It's not necessarily you both date if either of you don't feel that way, you guys can be just friends

From there, you'd be able to build your confidence towards the opposite sex

#Justsaying my opinion though

I'd refer you to tosyne2much lefulefu and sexybbstar

Those 3 guys have got the solutions to any matter related to this

Thanks...

I got bored one day and I deleted her number. Saw her few weeks ago but don't know how to get her number back as I didn't back it up.

As for initiating a convo, I really run outta choice of topics which could be the periphery between us.