Design and technology should be the subject where mathematical brainboxes and science whizzkids turn their bright ideas into useful products.
Enjoy failure and learn from it. You never learn from success.
The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.
The Web is fascinating and transformative, but it's an easy, flashy, get-rich-quick option to the hard graft of proper industry.
Don't listen to experts.
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them.