What first got you interested in mechanical engineering?

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I used to work on cars a lot growing up. I went really deep into it. I started buying up junk cars, and then taking parts from each, and created my own car out of it! It didn't run all that well, but just the processes and configurations got me down a path of wanting to be a mechanical engineer.

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I really wish I had the opportunity to work on cars w my dad - he works at Honda but he always said he’d let his mechanic buddies do any work we needed lol

A build-up robotic arm my dad bought me for my birthday one year. And also my passion for motorcycles growing up .

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I start working with solidworks back in highschool

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My uncles got me into working on cars . After a while I started working on my car and building it up and helping people with there cars after that it just became my passion

Motorcycles

I did a lot of maintenance and worked around a lot of different ship machinery when I was in the Navy and the theory behind how all the machinery worked intrigued me.

The passion for it

Parents won’t pay for culinary school but will pay for engineering school.

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