Challenges and obstacles encompassed my first year at Ohio State.
The goal of college is to challenge yourself and unleash your true potential, which is why I made my first semester as difficult as possible within reason. I had the opportunity to partake in multivariable calculus, honors fundamentals of engineering, and its physics equivalent. These courses allowed me to develop a skill set that otherwise was not available through the less rigorous track. I developed knowledge within MATLAB, C/C++, an in-depth look at mechanical anomalies, and diverse mathematical applications. Each skill provided me a diverse and intuitive way of thinking within my mechanical engineering coursework, which differed from my classmates. However, the courses did ground me and showed me that with new each skill developed, difficulties will arise.
My second semester involved obstacles both within the classroom and in the outside world. Continuing with the challenging mentality, I again pursued the rigorous path within my coursework, which involved a robotic construction course. Within this course, a team mentality was developed, and it involved other sectors of the engineering design field, budget, planning, and execution. This course allowed me to partake in practices I was to continue as my career, design engineering, where criteria were given and designs had to be developed to execute the criteria within a minimalistic lens. Testing had to take place and then was halted by a worldwide pandemic. Though the mentality that was developed pushed our team to continue to execute the task and further develop the skills at hand.