Mal nodded her head, she must be a smart woman to pick engineering, she even smiled as she listed off what field she might go into. Mal knew nothing about this, but Nova seemed excited about it. nodding her head to Nova's idea, "sounds like you are on to something there," Mal offered, "see what jumps out at you when you get into studying them." Perhaps that is what Mal should do, don't pick her minor yet and just take selected classes, there was tons of intro classes offered.