Hahah this is LITERALLY how I got into mechanical engineering. I turned on a projector in class, my teacher said I was always good at figuring out solutions and should consider mech, and I pretty much just took her advice and went with it. How did you all get into the field?

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My dad used to go hide away in the garage to work on different home projects and tinker with random things he would find in all sorts of places. I mostly just started joining him there to spend time together but eventually I got into the hobby as well. MechE was just one of the options I could've gone with, I happened to get into a school that had a particularly good program so I just went with it. I'm happy with how it's worked out

I wasn’t really sure what I was going to do for a while. It was actually going through college subjects that I started to lean into engineering the most. Everything I seen or read while researching just kept making light bulbs go off and here I am now.

I had family members who worked in manufacturing and that was just sort of the atmosphere I grew up in. I wasn't really steered into it, but it just seemed like something I understood and thought I could do.

I loved playing Tetris. I love seeing the pieces fit together in the perfect way.

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