Pointless existence

Software Engineering is a challenging degree not only because it has its basis in physics and math but also because it is time-consuming. Many people don't understand what studying engineering means. They believe that they have a secure future just for because of their decision to study it, but in real life things are not as perfect as we might imagine. A classic example is someone forced to study law just because his father studied it, his father before him and that father's father too, falling into a pointless and vicious cycle that is not going to allow him to find his own way and perhaps also leading to the loss of the next da Vinci or Michelangelo, for example. It's a terrible way of leading people into a miserable existence.