Heheheh. I can tell you it is very fun fooling around with people's minds that are not mechanically inclined. My mother tried reading my electronics book and she asks me if there is a translator for it.

*grumble grumble* Yeh, that's what one of the co-captains tries to do with me.

:p I have my ways of playing with his mind too.

Whoa... I guess I stated that wrong. Sorry.

What should have been said:

A lot of mentors on FIRST teams (I'm kind of being broad and leaving team mom's out - but believe me, I don't appreciate them any less) are engineers, and as a result, a lot of kids that enter or graduate from a FIRST program want to go into a career in engineering, mathematics, science, or technology because of the demonstrations of engineering they have seen.

I am an English major. When I walk into a FIRST meeting, it's kind of a "Past Participle? Gerunds, anyone?" :)

:D

They can turn into Mint Mentors!

I think I'm going to major in Chemistry next year. Fire is fun

My main interest is music. I do part time DJing and stuff like that so I'm always watching that sort of stuff at the competition besides driving. I have a big interest in the new intelligent lighting. Don't take this wrong though, I still love FIRST and everything that goes along with it.

I've never really thought about engineering...I guess I was leaning more towards physician or something with literature... but it can always change =)
I kinda don't like how I say I'm on a FIRST team and people go "OH, so you want to be an engineer"...becuase not everyone here wants to be!

Before I was involved wit FIRST, this is my first year, I was, and still am, interested in going into the medical field, but now after going to our team meetings and the regionals and Nat's and watching our team engineers I am now not sure what I want to do there are so many great things to do in each field, i guss only time will tell what I will do.

what about biomechanical engineering? chemical engineering? civic engineering? there are so many facets to the field of engineering that most people can find a part that they are interested in.

I wanna go in to mech engineering, but want to stay in school, untill I get the PhD, stay in school some more, and teach mech eningeering at the college level. I think that would be a good time, minus all the school stuff.

i want to go into some sort of media type of deal, radio tv, computer, anything. My dream is to work in the music biz, I just love music, can't make it, but I love it

not to mention that there's also CS and IT to look into :D

I used to be gung-ho about growing up and designing robots as a famous engineer, but after starting and leading a team of my initially clueless fellow classmates into being brilliant robot-builders, I"m no longer interested in making up new things. I now plan to be a teacher (and I'm working out a plan with my principal right now to come back and teach at my high school when I"m at college) and I"ll probably still work with some of my current classmates when they"re engineers to make them famous.

i have two choices, neither one of them is engineering, or even engineering related. they are either medicine or law. two very different fields, i know. and i dont want to do a combination of the two. if i go into medicine i want to work in the ER, and if i go into law, i want to be a criminal lawyer.

when i tell people what FIRST is all about, they always look at me and say, "where do you plan to go for engineering?" and every time i tell them i dont want to be an engineer. i like FIRST because it gives me a chance to broaden my interests and try new things, but engineering as a career is just not for me.