Engineering after FIRST

[BandChick]

I didn't think I was going to do anything engineering related. My mom always tried to push it because she's got a PhD in science, but I wasn't ever interested. In fact, before becoming a member of 1089, I was planning on being a liberal arts major (English) or a music major. Quite a shift, eh?

FIRST really put into perspective what being an engineer was all about, and I realized that I already had so many of the qualities that a good engineer possessed. Besides, all the stuff you learn, all the math and all the physics were things I was good at in high school.

I have NO interest in becoming a professional engineer, and yet that's still my Rutgers major. I know a lot of people look at me as though I have 3 heads when I say that, but I'm majoring in engineering because to me, it's fun. College is supposed to be the time you find out what you want to do and who you are. Well, I already know what I want to do, I decided to be a pediatrician when I was a lot younger. Now, I just want to have fun while I'm in school. Even if that means doing something completely related.

Do what makes you happy, do science, or don't. FIRST gives everyone something else, and just because maybe you didn't get the 'be an engineering major' bug, doesn't mean you haven't gained something else worthwhile. Besides, if we didn't have a few English majors the Chairman's essay would be a lot harder, wouldn't it?