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Registered Member #5598
Joined: Thu Jul 05 2012, 11:18PM
Location: Llandudno, north Wales.
Posts: 20
Well hello there and hope everyone is well!
I'm currently a OU Chemistry student but thinking, Why? I enjoy it, but you know when something is niggling away at you, thinking there's just not enough enjoyment here! Well I'm there now.
I have always when I was younger had a keen interest in taking things apart and building something new from the bits but recently started to get back into this and realised, this IS me. I enquirer to the university in Bangor to do electronics engineering Meng but after been told I could do it starting in September, realised that the fees are just too high, and can't get a SLC loan to pay apart from the fourth year, :(
So what other options areout there for me? I love building and making things electronically and love robots, just built a few little bugs for my nieces from old parts I scavenged. Or should I just continue with chemistry and pursue this as a hobby? Are there funded learning pathways? College? Other courses? Train on the job? Etc.
Thank you for any of your wealth of knowledge. Such a huge collective of brains here.
Danny.
P.S. if anyone has any components or other parts they don't need and don't mind donating, please feel free to send them to me haha. I believe if you don't ask, you never get.
Some people on here are hobbyists. They have one job, and then they go home and work with electronics. I can't tell you what I fall in, because I'm still in high school. However, I can tell you that personally, I'd go insane if I didn't study electrical engineering/electronics. If you love electronics to the point where it consumes your life, then I suggest you seriously do electronics. If its just a side hobby, then go ahead and pursue chemistry. Or get the best of both worlds and pursue electrochemistry, or make the equipment that is used to study chemicals. I can tell you right now, chemistry is my second favorite subject, only beaten by physics. Then comes meteorology, then astronomy, and then geology. So I highly recommend, if you love electronics, change your major. If its just a small hobby, like my storm chasing hobby, just leave it as a hobby and continue to major in chemistry. :D
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Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
Posts: 6706
Highvoltagechick, you must be insane already since you seem to fit in well around here.
If an engineering degree is outside your means I suggest trying to get a job as an electronics technician and working your way up from there. You might need to get some sort of token qualification in electronics like a HND, but that will be loads cheaper than a MEng. If you actually have any interest in electronics, all of this should be a breeze.
Once you're working, your employer may well help you with further training and study. It's maybe even something to ask about at the job interview.
And yes, if you can find a job that's also related to chemistry you could double your chances of getting it. Lots of electronics used in chemistry as Highvoltagechick points out.
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Joined: Sun Nov 14 2010, 05:05PM
Location: UK
Posts: 4245
It IS possible to do a degree in UK on the cheap.
I enrolled on a course (one day a week) which would have given me (if I'd stuck with it and not had work commitments) an HNC after 2 years, an HND after 3 years, and a degree after 4 years.
There are other ways ie do an HND, then 'upgrade' it to a degree, etc.
Mine was in Mech Eng, but I'm sure there are the same opportunities for Elec Eng.
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