I will no longer be doing FIRST¡K

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Posted by ChrisH at 05/25/2001 11:40 AM EST


Engineer on team #330, Beach 'Bots, from Hope Chapel Academy and NASA JPL, J & F Machine, Raytheon, et al.


In Reply to: I will no longer be doing FIRST¡K
Posted by Ken Leung on 05/25/2001 11:18 AM EST:



Ken,

I've enjoyed your comments on this forum very much and I hope you continue to participate here at least. But it is true that change comes no matter how we try to stop it. Now is time for a new chapter in your life.

Go ahead and plunge into Berkley. Learn everything they can teach you, even if it means you can't participate on a team for a while. When you come back you'll be a better advisor for it.

Just remember you won't be student next time and that will feel different, and that's OK.

I hope you can find another team and I hope your professors are as understanding as mine were. I also nearly got kicked out of engineering school because of all the time and effort I was spending on extracurricular projects. Fortunately my advisor decided I was probably learning more of what I needed by making my own mistakes and let me go until senior project time. Then I was in real demand because I could actually do things and make things work, unlike many of my classmates who didn't have such experience but did have better GPAs.

One thought. Take pictures of everything you build or are involved in that's not just paper. Put them into a nice album and take it with you for job interviews. Use it much as an artist would a portfolio. If your potential employer doesn't see your usefulness after that then you probably don't want to work there anyway.

Chris Husmann, PE
Team 330 the BeachBots

To everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under Heaven ... The Preacher