Originally Posted by Austin
Its the first two years.

The first two years were the easiest years of my college experience. The weed out classes were just the easy theoretical classes, physics, chemistry, mathematics, etc.

It was the practical engineering classes that destroyed me. Mostly because I had never put effort into trying to understand anything before. Plus, I had zero interest in engineering.

You can't make much money in STEM fields unless you go to med school, so why would people want to get a Ph.D. in chemistry, when there are few jobs that pay six figures?