Well I've dreamed of working within nanotechnology, specifically the medical side, for years. They don't offer that as an undergrad so instead I looked into engineering majors that could prepare me for it. At the time I never thought, "Oh what could prepare me for the medical side of engineering?" and instead just looked for whatever gave me experience in nanotech. Chemical Engineering offered a concentration under nanoscience, which, at the time, I didn't realize really meant that you only get two nanotech electives total, which isn't helpful at all.
I really wish I had thought to go into biomedical instead (at least reading their curriculum sounds extremely interesting to me whereas CHE's looks awful), but since I didn't my GPA has now dropped because of CHE and I don't meet the requirements to apply. I might just apply anyways and see what happens because we get to answer essay questions and I can explain what I'm going through, but I don't know if it'll even help.
It's sad. I LOVE math and science classes. I love nanotechnology and learning about biomedical stuff, but chemical engineering is just god awful. All we ever talk about is reactors or heat exchangers or certain amount of moles of different substances going into mixers or furnaces and ughh. I don't know how people can enjoy this stuff, but I sure don't and I don't see how it is relevant to what I want to do at all. I just wish that I had to take CHE courses my freshman year when we had the ~freshman retake policy~ because these courses have screwed up my GPA and I'm so far into school that I feel like I'll be wasting so much money to redo my sophomore year. Ughh.
I'm really leaning towards switching, but I have no idea what else I could do other than biomedical.