STEM majors captured in their natural habitat
Happy Engineers Week!!! (Bet you didn’t know that was a thing)
Here at Marion, the STEM field increases every year; more students are starting to attend this campus in order to study a major that’s part of the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) field. This photo is a visual representation of our every day activity! Thankfully, the computer lab in the library building is open until 9 p.m. because we eat lunch here, sometimes dinner, and we also have students bring in their laptops to play video games. I find it amusing that once 4:30 p.m. comes around, the room becomes quiet (that’s when the engineering class starts); even more quiet at 6:00 p.m. because the rest of the students leave to go to their programming class. Our engineering and programming classes are held in this building therefore the activity that was going on the day this photo was taken were students finishing their SolidWorks homework for Engineering (1182) and coding some C++ for programming (1222).
It is true that the STEM field is smaller here compared to the other majors that are offered on campus but part of me enjoys that. I like being able to see my friends in the same classes that I am in because we all somewhat need to take the same prerequisites, I also like that we all help each other through the same homework and projects. I hope that with the help of the new science and engineering building that’s under construction here in Marion, the STEM field will grow larger because even though we may not have much free time, we still feel like we are part of something!