The biggest lesson I’m taking away from Stanford is that it’s all within my hands.
After an education like this, I feel like it’s really within my reach to be able to do crazy, amazing things with the engineering problems in the world.
The opportunity to really take a lead in a project or in an engineering problem is something I didn’t dream I’d be able to do coming into an undergraduate education. I’m leaving Stanford feeling very capable.
Related spotlights
Thomas Colburn
PhD candidate
Materials Science and Engineering
I was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, near the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. We were surrounded by nature, so my siblings and friends and I spent a lot of time exploring the wilderness and getting lost in the woods.
Read Thomas Colburn's story
Kayla Patterson
MS ’24
Computer Science
I was born and raised in Robbinsville, a small town in central New Jersey.
Read Kayla Patterson's story
Adrienne Propp
PhD candidate
Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering
I never planned to become a mathematician. I liked math growing up because it made sense to me – plug this number into this equation here, and you’ll get an output that follows some predictable logic.
Read Adrienne Propp's story