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In some weeks in the school they will present a lot of lecture of multiple subjects, but we need to choose just 3.
Two will be the morning and one in the afternoon, the afternoon will be just 3 subjects so I already choose (Civil Engineering). I need to choose two of left subjects...
Here is the list that I selected, the list is bigger but I choose whose that I like more:
Industrial Design*
Graphics Design
Administration - Marketing*
Computer Science*
Architecture and Urbanism
Journalism*
Music
Advertising Production
International Relationships*
Internet Systems*
Psychology
Environmental Engineering
Publicity and Propaganda*

* = That I like most...
I would like to do all of this things, but I can't so I need to choose
I think that Industrial Design I could learn here so I don't need to see that lecture, the same with graphics design...
BTW I think that the lecture will be really basic, but I now that I'll learn something!

Cya

I think you are rather young. I have just past 50 years and have have a bachelor of industrial design and works now as a teacher. My best years in life were when I in five years studied industrial design at the university.

Now I relize that there is so much I will do in my life and there is a limited time to do this. There is so many things to discover and I want to discover them all.

I also think that, but sadly in life we always need to specialize in something, I still don't believe in that but it's true... I would like to know everything about everything, but I'll need to know everything about one thing and somethings about other... Sometimes I think that the way we live it just delay our learning, but life is it, so let's live it!

Cya
PS: I'm under 16 years old

don't think specialized under 16! You have time to choose. When i was your age i lived for the fun of learning not for a career. An adult can change all his life. Even if you don't know what you want to do for the future, it is not important. Most important is to know why you learn.

Choose three you want to do, dont put it to us, if you can't decide, then think and think some more, a mistake I'lll admit is that I've gone down a very specified route,I'm currently on an ND course in games design, sounds swanky but leaves very little room, I did music, graphics design, IT and additional science, stage tech lighting/show prep and so on, in college and so far I haven't properly put any of that to use, and still got a while before I turn 18 yet and have to pick a uni by....next month or wait another year doing....something....that route's only going to get narrower and narrower and narrower as you go down the education route, keep your options opne, because one day you might say "i'm bored of graphics design, let's give music a try" and off you trot.

Despite doing all this 3D work I do I'm not so sure that I want to make it my job, all the fun might jut drain out of something I really like otherwise, maybe that'd apply to others, sometimes you have to put what you love aside for what you have to do, financial issues, just no vacancies, so while you can just go for something, even if it's wacky like horticulture, IT and spanish. Learning's fun, agreed 100%, but pick the three subjects that you love, and try and cover as broad an area as possible, the holes you plug in your spare time, now employers are looking at multiple language skills, motivation to learn in your spare time, not just school options

Keep your options open, if you really don't konw, just take a punt, if it's that hard to choose then ultimately there's no real difference, you're still going to enjoy the subject, I really wouldn't put it to an online forum to help you decide what school options to take, if you can't fit them in school, do them in your spare time, or find a way to incorporate the subjects, like I now use a project I'm updating (slowly) here, and I use what I upload to this forum as evidence of progress for my Final Major Project this year.

Look at the next step, what college course do you like the sound of, do you want to go to college? If not what other options have you got available, employment, apprentiships? If you can't work that out, then enjoy the options you take in school as some fun learning and you get GSCEs (or yur country's equivelant) at the end of it. If you do know where you want to go, set yourself up for it, but leave a fallback safety net, trying to get into the games industry? Then make sure you've also got CAD-CAM skills in case you don't make it.

A bit long winded and more than you really asked for, but I hope that sums up much of the dilemma and everything stemming off from that as possible

Marcel, I don't want to specialize but I know that I'll, so I'm trying to learn the much is possible now... Why I learn? Because I like
Weevil, thanks for your advise... Long advise...
I don't want to you make the choice just to somebody say something about (in example) journalism like: I did journalism and it's really cool principally the interviews, etc...
And it won't be a course just ONE lecture (1h) in one day so I can choose anything even crap, because I know that there I'll not encounter good information, just basic. So I think I'll choose things that I don't have any knowledge and give aside things like industrial design that I have some informations.
I don't like school itself, but like to learn, school make the learning process something boring and stressful, but I also don't plain to work now, it will just slowdown my learning in most areas but improve my learning in the area that I work...
Where I'm also I can't find good courses of things that I like, but will look more or go to other city.

Thanks for all... I'll let you know what I choose

Weevil, so you are 17 years, it's good to know that I'm not alone here...

Cya

Dont worry.

You have all life left to learn things. As i STAR WARS "trust your feelings" I think Luke Skywalker gets this words from his master "Obi-Wan"? when he is destroyng the Death star. Trust your stomach feelings. Ask the qeustion: Is this the choice I want?

When I have a difficult choice I go with my inner feelings and always it had been good for me. Feels it right in my stomach? Yes or no.

You are almost the age of my pupils. As a teacher you seems to be a top student to have. A student who want's knowledge. I don't know how it's in the brazilian schools but in Sweden we emphasize the pupils own curiosity. The pupil shall as far as possible take care of his own education. Some does coop with this and other sadly not. The most important thing is the curiosity to discover the world with it's possibilities.

This curiosity is a very good quality you possess.

Thanks Tommy!

I liked the first part (about star wars)
Yes, try but not receive good grades always...
As you know, Brazil is not a good country at the education area and many others, here if you know how to write and read, you are ok. Anyway my parents help me, and that's why I have so many curiosity. I love to know how things works and how make it better...
Most of my bests conquest at knowledge area was done out school and at home...

Thanks

Just to let all know... I choose Computer Science and International Relations
I need to think big, while I have time...