Love monkey, not sure about raw intelligence, it helps of course but I never considered myself all that intelligent really but managed to get through lol, now compare that to my dad who i see as very intelligent he graduated first in his class undergrad, masters, and phd in mechanical engineering at UCLA and then started his own successful business but he also has excellent social skills, but to be honest most of the engineers i met during undergrad and masters had Zero social skills, i think this field really requires determination its tough but its all material that you can learn, not one of these things that you either know it or not, in undergrad hallf way through i was really struggling hating the material and nearly transferred to another field who woulda known that i would later get a masters and go after a phd too, if you woulda asked me in undergrad if i woulda studied MORE engineering i woulda said no way, i hated it but now i am glad i stuck it out, good luck to you!
That's cool. So you come from a family of well educated people? Did that influence your studying/career path?
None of my parents have any sort of higher education although we have a couple of relatives that are engineers and lawyers etc. I just never felt the urge/pressure to start studying until fairly recently and I hope I can keep the motivation throughout the next upcoming years. All I know is that if I don't give it a shot while I'm still young I KNOW that I will regret it later and keep thinking "What if?".
I do have an interest for technical stuff and theoretical physics but my main concern is the mathematical skills required to get a degree in this sort of stuff. I'm hoping that if I put my mind into it I'll get better. Not saying I was exceptionally bad at math in high school, just that I never paid much attention to it or found it interesting. But I think I'm a different person now. Hopefully. I didn't have a goal back then but I do now.
Thanks for your input, much appreciated.
