I kind of had the same experience studying Engineering at Purdue. I grew unsatisfied with the whole "engineering thing", left school to study industrial and architectural design at another school. (in fact, did very well) here it is a few years later and I want to start studying engineering again. Casey Rousseau wrote: > Barbara asked: > > On a similar note, how many have been discouraged from a topic in > > school they thought they'd enjoy, or had enjoyed until a certain point? > > Didn't happen to me until by sophomore year at Penn. Modern Physics. I > just couldn't skate through on going to lectures and doing half the problems > and still ace the exams. Compounded the problem by not making it to all the > lectures for completely unrelated reasons. Flunked. > > Have hardly touched any study of the physical sciences since. Prior to this > point I had planned to be a Physics Major. Ended up going into Math with a > minor in CS after taking five years off from school. > > Not sure if this is the sort of example you were looking for, though. I > sometimes wish I'd had a bit more preparation for the idea that I could run > into a topic that was too hard for me to learn without putting in some hard > work. > > Casey