What’s the biggest aha moment I’ve had as an engineering student?
It’s probably just realizing that everybody is going through the same struggle. And that it doesn’t hurt to reach out to people to say, ‘Hey, let’s get together and do p-sets’ or ‘Let’s get together and go over SolidWorks.’
I think it’s incredible that you meet so many people from so many walk of life here, and really, we’re all just going through it together. I’ve taken classes with electrical engineers, mechanical engineers and chemical engineers. It’s amazing when you see how people think about problems and the many different approaches that can be taken to solving the same problem.
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