[14-15; 109-113] Leaving the house to go to \u2018southern region university\u2019 was pretty hard to leave my nine-year-old little sister behind because she’s so young and didn’t really understand what was happening. I picked to go to \u2018southern region university\u2019 because it was the best engineering school in \u2018southern region\u2019. I originally wanted to go to a \u2018large midwestern university\u2019, but the out-of-state tuition was too much for me and my family to afford, so I came here instead. It really is an awesome school. The local \u2018southern region college\u2019 would have been cheaper, but they didn’t have an engineering degree, so I didn’t really want to go with them. It made more sense to go to this \u2018southern region university\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
[115-118; 127-130] I chose to study mechanical engineering. Based off my senior thesis, I would have gone with biomedical because wheelchairs are a medical thing, but I figured mechanical would be more general than anything else. I would get a little bit of everything, so at the end of the day, I can do whatever I want. A little bit of everything includes taking classes outside of mechanical engineering like material science classes, chemistry classes, electrical engineering classes, and programming classes. I’m not just going to know how to solve free-body diagrams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
[14-15; 109-113] Leaving the house to go to \u2018southern region university\u2019 was pretty hard to leave my nine-year-old little sister behind because she’s so young and didn’t really understand what was happening. I picked to go to \u2018southern region university\u2019 because it was the best engineering school in \u2018southern region\u2019. I originally wanted to go […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,24],"tags":[29,99,32],"class_list":["post-1235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lauren","category-quotes","tag-family","tag-lauren","tag-why-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1235\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}