^ yeah right! real deal... I wish - we're each playin our own shell games I suppose.
So why'd Aeronautical Eng. not work out for ya? For me, I submitted the apps, passed the math and physics entrance test but was told I was underage! I was told to come back the following year but I was furious and changed my mind.
couple of things.
first was same issue as yours, age
second, and my mum will deny it now, but she feaked out that it was happening, I think as I was a kid it was funny to hear that I wanted to be in the military, when it kinda stared her in the face she panicked. and for her it was not that i was going to be in military, but that I was going to be so far away..not realizing that my other path was going to take me to a different continent.
third and most importantly, I was no longer sure what I wanted to do.
I mean did not just want to be anything in the military i wanted to be a pilot, and then realizing that was not going to happen, I was left without a direction. sensing discomfort from ammi, and saying well if i have to go in engineering atleast i should do something l like, i went for computers.
maybe I would have done things differently with some guidance at that time, but its in the past.