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Originally posted by Taualumna
She could have been pressured to major in engineering by her family or her school (my cousin falls into this category). Or, she thought that she wanted to take engineering when she was in high school, and decided to finish the degree, because changing her major to, say, English, may require her to take another year of school.
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I swear I wasn't going to say anything but this last quote did it.
I find your references to your experiences in a private girls school annnoying because I don't see the correlation of how high schools girls and college graduate women have the same decisions to make. It's like comparing apples and oranges.
I too remembered this episode of Oprah discussing the film Mona Lisa Smile. The woman in question was a junior engineering major at Northwestern University,Evanston, IL. Present tuition is $37,491 per year. That's a enormous amount of money to invest in for an education. Her mother has every right to question her daughter's decisions at this stage if she's paying the bills. As to the woman being "pressured" by the university, my brother is an alumnus and I can assure you there are no civil rights being violated that warrant involvement from Amnesty International when it comes to choosing your major or changing your major. If she was a sophmore there's still time to change your major.
As to your references of "that's nice" as a response when a woman says she's a SAHM. I would hope that she has enough confidence in herself that she wouldn't need to have validation of others for her decision.
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