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Monday, February 15, 2016

Megan Arlt: Why Engineering?


Choosing a major is a huge step in life. Your major doesn’t just decide what your job will be, but what skills you’ll have for the future. Say you’re a kindergarten teacher, while going to school you’ll learn the principals of being patient and nurturing. Compare this to an engineer. Engineers learn to be logical and detailed. What skills do you want to take away from school? You have about four years of college. That time goes by fast and thinking about a specific job rather than what skills are going to be taken away from your schooling, makes school less enjoyable. I learned this idea quick.

In high school, knowing college was around the corner, I knew I had to decide on a major soon and while going about that I wasn’t thinking about what I wanted to learn, but what job I wanted in the future. With that, I had my mind set on being a Veterinarian. I was going to grow up and take care of animals for a living. It seemed great, I love animals. The real question was; was what I was learning going to be what I enjoyed and what I wanted to do for the rest of my life? I’m a logical person. I like solving problem, innovating new ideas and helping people. I wanted to learn just how to do that. I needed to test my creativity and to stretch my thinking.

And that’s how I decided on Engineering.


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