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My understanding is that what you are experiencing is not out of the norm. I witnessed the same disillusion with my daughter during her university years. I speculate it is more common than we realize.

Post secondary education is a major commitment. In a world where delayed gratification is not promoted I can understand how an attack of conscience that questions the career path would happen after investing so much time and energy while appearing to get no where.

I would recommend talking to the University Guidance Councillor to get another perspective. If your activities that enhance the knowledge pursuit is less that successful it may deflate you even more. I would hope the University professional would recognize the struggle and provide some recommendation to make the journey less difficult.

I recall sitting through lecture after lecture on heat transfer coefficients thinking what the hell am I doing. A simple problem like my model race car set power supply constantly tripping off because the regulator overheated, gave me some insight many years later why I need to gain more knowledge on heat.

My understanding is that what you are experiencing is not out of the norm. I witnessed the same disillusion with my daughter during her university years. I speculate it is more common than we realize.

Post secondary education is a major commitment. In a world where delayed gratification is not promoted I can understand how an attack of conscience that questions the career path would happen after investing so much time and energy while appearing to get no where.

I would recommend talking to the University Guidance Councillor to get another perspective. If your activities that enhance the knowledge pursuit is less that successful it may deflate you even more. I would hope the University professional would recognize the struggle and provide some recommendation to make the journey less difficult.

I recall sitting through lecture after lecture on heat transfer coefficients thinking what the hell am I doing. A simple problem like my model race car set power supply constantly tripping off because the regulator overheated, gave me some insight many years later why I need to gain more knowledge on heat.

I recall spending a few nights laying on the floor of my girlfriends home trying to come to grips with Reactance Theory, Vector Algebra and Impedance. The mathematics  associated with it seemed daunting. I don't think I could calculate the impedance of a circuit now without a lot of google help.

Three years after leaving college I was isolated at a station north of 64 degrees trying to program this bad boy to calculate 2 cycle error using fourier analysis. According to the manual, the TI66 could be programmed to take input from an array of antennas and return a value that would enable the user to determine if the power required to alter the radio beam in the sky needed to be increased up or down. The main transmitter put out 100W and the subcarrier (two singnal out of phase ) were 1W. Diode in the sky theory indicated they would mix to produce a beam for each radial on the compass. 

The equipment available at the time to measure signals wasn't capable of fine tuning the 1W to say .867W. The solution make an adjustment. Do fourier analysis and determine if the 2 cycle error went up or down. Up meant you went the wrong way with the power adjustment.

The goal of my long drawn out story is to provide some encouragement to hang in there. I know my education prepared me to problem solve. What do you do when you have no idea what to do? Three years puts your education path over the hump. Just think another two years a someone will pay you for the use of the knowledge from the degree you hold. Hang in there.