Engineers
 

I want to be an engineer, but I wanted to be that even before I joined robotics.

I have a feeling that i'm going to be in the minority on this poll, but here goes anyway. I love FIRST. It has inspired me to do many things that i never would have tried otherwise. However, becoming an engineer is not one of them.

Before getting into FIRST, I was all for being a firefighter cause it's a family thing. After 3 yrs of being with first, I'm proud to say that I am going to be attending college next year majoring in mechanical engineering. FIRST, to me, is life.

Although I have my heart set on being a lawyer when I'm older, I think I've been "inspired" in other ways by first. To doctor up on my lawyer skills, I was incharge of making sure our team followed all the rules and incase a judge were to DQ our extendor, I was ready to fight it with my annotated manual. I also learned so much about business and management, its unbelievable.

Before joining FIRST last year, I had no idea what I wanted to do. Now I know that I want to go into electrical engineering. I was inspired by joining FIRST, and by the awesome mentors on our team (especially the electrical guy, Rich. Thank you!!) :) That's my story!

- Katie

Yep, I want to be an engineer - the hard part for me is what kind! Mechanical, electrical, aerospace...they're all cool to me! :)

Same applies here. I want to be an automotive electercial engineer. (try saying that 3 times fast...)

I think being an avation electronics engineer would be very cool, but I bet there aren't many openings for that specific of a field.

I'm going to University of Maryland next year for the only accredited undergraduate Fire Protection Engineering major in the country. It's a hot field (haha) with a lot of demand for graduates. Each year at University of Maryland, they get about 400 job offers for FPE graduates, which is about equal to 16 years of graduating Fire Protection majors.

FIRST has taught me I want to become an engineer just like my English class has taught me that I want nothing to do with an English major. What a great combination!

Future Engineer
 

When I grow up, I wanna build robots. I'm going to SUNY Stony Brook to be a computer engineer and I'll do that until I'm rich. Then I'm just gonna build myself a bunch of robots to play with. ;)

Will I be an engineer? well, kind of. I plan on going through ROTC and becoming an officer in the USAF. But I am going to major in aerospace engineering. So even though I won't really work as an engineer I'll have the education.

Engineering runs in my family. I love to do math, i like to do science, and i love social studies. Its an odd combo, but i plan to become an officer in the USAF then go into aerospace, i love to designs things that you actualy see how changing a value or altering an angle will effect something. Because of FIRST i can start applying what i know to robotics, it has now become something that i will pour all my time into. Heck, im gonna try to take some CAD classes during the summer!

Heh before HS I wanted to be a lawyer, but why the heck would I want to spend an aditional 8 years in school and become a no fun and a stiff? :D

By the end of my MSOE summer camp in 2001, I knew I wanted to go into Electrical Engineering (I almost leaned towards Mechanical as a sophomore). Oh and Im going to MSOE also ;)

You mean you aren't already no fun and a stiff? ;)

- Katie

*shakes fist*

no need to fight, just go play some computer game that lets you kick each others arse without anyone getting hurt. Either that or wait untill the comps and you might meet each other!

Heh, I think we have met before :D

im torn between engineering and med school.. for me it's all going to come down to location...i got accepted into w&m, so obviously if i go there i'll be choosing the med school route.. but i've been thinking about studying in australia and if i do that then I may end up in a chemical or civil engineering field..

hmmm... i dont think so, i a, a newb, maybe ill meet you this year! do you play warcraft 3 by any chance?

Hey hey hey, not all lawyers are no fun and stiff! Let's not bag on my future profession (at least I hope so, crossing my fingers), do you know how many lawyer jokes I already get?

lol you do know what the statistics are for lawyers in the US right? as i check last time, it was 2 lawyers per family! We dont need anymore lawyers, but we do need competiant CEO's...

In my family, engineering and computer-nerd-ism is a sex-linked trait. All of the males in my paternal family are either engineers or CSers. I've wanted to be an engineer since I was in Mathcounts in '99 (placed 157th! \/\/007!1). Then, this past summer, I was introduced to electrical engineering at Rose-Hulman. I'm hooked.

However, I'm similarly stuck on physics, thanks to the Richard Feynman Freshman Lectures. (of which I have the complete set! \/\/007!1) Thus, I intend to double major and increase my desirability.

I AlwAYz WanTeD to B a EgiNEer,EvEN b4 I EvEr HearD Of THe FIRST

I'm not terribly sure about any clear career path. I love the first program and have always done well in my science classes, but I suck at math. My math classes have, without a doubt, been the most frustrating classes I've ever taken. That's the bad news. The good new is that I do well in just about everything else. So as of now, I am considering the following careers (in no particular order):

Software Engineer
Electrical Engineer
General Surgeon
Pathologist
Journalist
English Teacher (teaching it as a foreign language in another country)

Yup, I'm really confused

Engineering
 

Hmm this past year i've been pondering the idea, esp with having to apply to schools next year, There are soo many options, which field i'd be interested in even if i decided to go into engineering.... I think i've narrowed it down to engineering or art now...... Maybe i will incoprorate both!? :rolleyes:

Engineer heck yeah
 

Before joining i wanted to be a naturalist but now i can do both. I wanted to study different animals . I want to become an engineer and start my own business. It will create veichels for scientists who will be working in the field or in the oceans or space or what ever. So if anyone wants to join meet me in like 8 years and lets get started. Good luck to all and peace out.

Ever since I was little, I always liked cars. If someone happened to rip all the brand and name tags off the cars in a Wal-mart parking lot, I could tell you what kind of car it is still.

I always wanted to be an automotive designer, but I never really knew about the detailed mecanicals within cars. I like to draw them. I have made hundreds of drawing of current and past models, as well as make up some of my own. However, I could not find any basis for this type of class for the career I want to pursue.......

When...
 

When I am completely graduated i plan to come back and be an engineer for team 1037. The team I work for now.

I don't think being an engineer is right for me... I want to go into business and still be involved with FIRST...

I plan on studying mech. engineering in undergrad, but I'm moving on to dentistry for grad school. Eventually, I'll be an orthodontist (that's kinda like an engineer). Plus, I'm working one weekend a month on C-130 avionics with the Michigan Air National Guard.

Yep, I want to become an engineer b/c engineering rules!;)

Definitely going to be an engineer
 

Well, if life goes as I wish it to, which we all know it WON'T, I want to be an engineer...the infamous question though is what kind??? Mechanical, electrical, chemical, aerospace, civil, environmental, architectural, computer...the list goes on. I guess my choices are environmental, aerospace, and mechanical. Hell, if it lets me have fun with robots, its perfect. Whether I become an engineer or not (all dependent on money and scholarships) I will definitely be in the field of science and I will always have a thing for building things that can run autonomously.