By Marshall Foster

September 10, 2019

  Common advice for prospective students: Make sure to pick the right major while in college, because it will set you up for your future. Every year, new freshmen enter their universities in the hopes they have picked or will pick the right major before they graduate. It is a rite of passage that every student must go through. Picking the right major is one of the biggest choices a student has to make when they enter this new stage in life. Choosing the right major requires enormous trust in the university the student is getting their degree from to teach them everything they must know to be successful in the workforce. Mechanical engineering major Jennifer Bracken said she feels that the mechanical engineering department has set her up for success, but acknowledges that her classes have only taught her half of what she needs to know for her future job. “I think it is 50-50...