{"id":710,"date":"2021-05-30T06:48:26","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T06:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=710"},"modified":"2021-06-21T08:59:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T08:59:16","slug":"johns-family-childhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2021\/05\/30\/johns-family-childhood\/","title":{"rendered":"John&#8217;s Family &#038; Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[20-25] I&#8217;m a [<em>South Asian<\/em>] American &#8230; My parents were both born and raised in the [<em>South Asian Country<\/em>], and came over here. They met over here and they had me, which means that I have an Asian American background. However, unlike the stereotype, I wasn&#8217;t raised with the intention of going into a doctor or an engineer field. My parents were quite different than that, they just wanted the best for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[27-33] I never thought I&#8217;d be an engineering student. I thought I would be something with visual or performing arts. My path before that, I was performing like every year, every semester, and I found enjoyment from that. I&#8217;ve been a high honors student since high honor was a thing in my school\u2026. I&#8217;ve always been good in classes, and it never really clicked that being good in math and science could be my career\u2026 until I made the decision to come here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[47-51; 53-55; 60-66] When I was younger I was a tinkerer, I liked to take things parts and found out how things worked; it didn&#8217;t always turn out well, but I stilled liked it. For that transition [from visual performing arts to engineering], I have always been a well-rounded person, so it didn&#8217;t feel like a transition, it just felt natural for me to do something else, because I&#8217;d been doing everything before. It&#8217;s still a very fun hobby of mine, [\u2026] playing instruments, but for the visual side last semester I took a jewelry course. It was the very first place that I learned how to computer model. The very first project was like a broach, where you had to make a 2D sketch of whatever you wanted to carve out on metal. You carved it, but you also had to create a backing to support magnets that would allow you to wear the broach on your shirt, and that part was 3D printed, so not only did I learn how to model, I learned how to draft, and I learned some hands on stuff all in that jewelry class, and it was genuinely the best class I&#8217;ve ever taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[20-25] I&#8217;m a [South Asian] American &#8230; My parents were both born and raised in the [South Asian Country], and came over here. They met over here and they had me, which means that I have an Asian American background. However, unlike the stereotype, I wasn&#8217;t raised with the intention of going into a doctor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24],"tags":[30,31,29,27,28],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","category-quotes","tag-background","tag-childhood","tag-family","tag-john","tag-round1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","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=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}