{"id":993,"date":"2021-06-24T09:18:01","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/?p=993"},"modified":"2021-06-24T09:20:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T09:20:39","slug":"tchuck-on-choosing-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/2021\/06\/24\/tchuck-on-choosing-engineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Tchuck on Choosing Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[15-21] [<em>East coast university<\/em>] was kind of my back up. But I ended up getting the best worth for my money basically I got a bunch of money from [<em>East coast university<\/em>] and also [<em>East coast university<\/em>] has a really good engineering school, like all the schools I applied to had a decent engineering school but [<em>East coast university<\/em>]\u2019s obviously very good for engineering. So I ended up coming here. I&#8217;m in honors college here. I also pledged, I&#8217;m also in a fraternity here.<\/p>\n<p>[113-119] When I came to [<em>East coast university<\/em>] I looked at them and I thought biomedical sounded pretty cool. I went through and they showed me this tour and it was like, I think the people at [<em>East coast university<\/em>] that do research were looking at something like eyedrops that fix blindness to an extent, there was something about a robotic arm that would be able to perform surgery. So I was like that&#8217;s pretty cool. And I did well in bio and I like science and obviously I like math. So that&#8217;s what I ended up going with.<\/p>\n<p>[125-127; 130-132] I actually came in under the major engineering entrepreneurship, which initially I applied to that because I was like, alright I&#8217;m not 100% sure what I want to do, like I like biomedical, but I wanted to come in as generic [\u2026]And what it ended up being was a completely different thing, like it&#8217;s what you would think trying to start your own company and make stuff, whatever along those lines. So pretty quickly I transferred into biomed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[15-21] [East coast university] was kind of my back up. But I ended up getting the best worth for my money basically I got a bunch of money from [East coast university] and also [East coast university] has a really good engineering school, like all the schools I applied to had a decent engineering school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,65],"tags":[28,26,32],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","category-tchuck","tag-round1","tag-tchuck","tag-why-engineering"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","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=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engineering.purdue.edu\/STORIES\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}