{"id":712,"date":"2021-05-27T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=712"},"modified":"2021-06-21T07:21:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T07:21:29","slug":"john-on-choosing-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2021\/05\/27\/john-on-choosing-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"John on Choosing Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[37-40] Well, once I saw that the engineering career was more than &#8230; More than finding something &#8230; As soon as I saw engineering as more than just sitting down at a computer and running tests over and over again. The more I saw the design aspect it really resonated with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[110-112] Also, apparently [Midwestern university] has a 97[%] hiring rate [for] graduating [engineers], so that attracted me to it, because as a performing visual arts person I was always worried that I&#8217;d be that starving artist stereotype.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;[125-128] I knew I didn&#8217;t want to do electrical, because I don&#8217;t like circuits very much, but I really agreed with industrials making stuff more efficient, and making improvements onto existing systems [&#8230;] I&#8217;m really in engineering because I like design, so I decided to go for mechanical.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[37-40] Well, once I saw that the engineering career was more than &#8230; More than finding something &#8230; As soon as I saw engineering as more than just sitting down at a computer and running tests over and over again. The more I saw the design aspect it really resonated with me. [110-112] Also, apparently [&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":[27,28,32],"class_list":["post-712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john","category-quotes","tag-john","tag-round1","tag-why-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712","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=712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":713,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712\/revisions\/713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}