(Katie Jenkins, First Year, Chemical Engineering Major)
“Gwen is supposedly gonna be successful, and all my parents talk about is how successful Gwen and Maddison [her sisters] are gonna be. So I would like to be successful, but its mostly for myself, especially since i’m paying for everything, which is nice. I know I really like engineering, I found that out. But one of the reasons why I guess I went into it is cause it wont be hard to repay my debt after I get out of school. And Lindsay [her roommate] said something interesting, ‘A lot of people in our class aren’t really cut out for engineering, and they just want a job that will pay more, but they’re not really engineers’, which I thought that was interesting cause like that could’ve been me, but now I know I really like it and i’m not terrible at it. I knew I liked science and math, and I thought I liked science more coming into it, but now I realize I do like the math side a lot more that I thought, I guess I just didn’t really have good math experiences in high school. Im also pre-optometry, so if I don’t like engineering I can go into that, which I know ill like. Every career test I’ve taken has said doctor, but I just don’t see myself going to med school.”