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Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi
This is one of the silliest posts I've read on here. Just because a student pursues something outside of STEM doesn't mean a mentor didn't inspire them. Also, you make it sounds like a student going into what they are passionate about is a bad thing. I'd rather have a kid go into what they love and learn from robotics that engineering isn't what they want rather than go in, try, fail, be miserable, and quit.
Not all of us go into engineering, but we recognize the role of STEM in society and earn a greater level of respect for it through this program.
Signed - a former captain, mentor, team founder, Econ/Prelaw major.  |
I don't think that's what he meant. It was referring to the student spending their time doing a task on the team that didn't align with what they wanted to do after high school. If they wanted to go into theater then they could have helped with chariman's award scripts or the like.
I agree however that it is a bit silly. As I said earlier, just because a student majors in Theater doesn't mean they didn't want to work with tools and build robots while they were on the team.