What were your plans for after grad school? Out in the "real world" most employers don't care what you studied anyway. And if you choose not to complete grad school in your current field, you could always get a job and go back (often paid for by the employer) in whatever field you really want to study.
IMO there's too much weight put on "what is your degree in" for many students. Granted, some folks are in degrees like molecular biology where the only field-related jobs you can get require the degree in the field. But engineers - systems-oriented engineers especially - can get all kinds of different jobs in all kinds of different disciplines, and then study in the engineering masters' program they're really interested in.
Maybe you just need to take a semester off. I did during my undergrad. Technically it was for sinus surgery, but it also gave me a great opportunity to clear my head, and I ended up adjusting my major when I got back.
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IMO there's too much weight put on "what is your degree in" for many students. Granted, some folks are in degrees like molecular biology where the only field-related jobs you can get require the degree in the field. But engineers - systems-oriented engineers especially - can get all kinds of different jobs in all kinds of different disciplines, and then study in the engineering masters' program they're really interested in.
Maybe you just need to take a semester off. I did during my undergrad. Technically it was for sinus surgery, but it also gave me a great opportunity to clear my head, and I ended up adjusting my major when I got back.