[Paul H]

When I was little I always wanted to be an engineer because my uncle was one. I didn't even know what an engineer was! As I moved through high school, I changed to wanting to be in business. Then came FIRST. I joined as a junior, and junior year went by and it was cool, but I thought nothing more. Then came this past year, senior year. Somehow I got inspried. A bunch of my teammates complained abour Dave Lavery's speach at VCU, but I listened to it and it actually made me start thinking about engineering. I look back on it, and the two best parts about FIRST were the engineering/building aspects and the competitiveness.

I see the Jim and Tim, the two main engineers on our team, and I see all of the "big name" FIRST engineers on these forums like Andy Baker, Paul Copioli, Joe Johnson, etc. and they all seem like such great people, I want to be like them.

So yes, I think I will be giong into engineering. I'm going to spend my first year at Michigan State as no preference with mainly engineering classes, just so I can leave it open, but it'll take somethig special (there's nothing like FIRST in the business world that I know of) to sway me.

So consider me "Inspired"