I was convinced I was going to study economics at Stanford. I didn’t have the resources to try engineering in high school, so I decided to apply to SSEA and give engineering a try.
I’ve learned so much about all of the different areas of engineering in the past few weeks in this program, stuff that I’ve never been exposed to before. I’m thinking a lot more seriously about studying engineering now.
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