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While exploring potential career paths, I read the book “101 Things I Learned in Engineering School,” by John Kuprenas. In the author’s note, he stated engineers view the world as “fascinating, creative, challenging, collaborative, and unfailingly rewarding,” and suddenly I wanted to know more. As I continued reading, I was intrigued by the idea of using math and science, in combination with creativity, to produce something tangible that could potentially be used in someone's everyday life.
Engineering seems like something I want to pursue, but everything I know about it comes from what I have read or heard. I don’t have a strong idea if I want to focus on civil, environmental, chemical engineering, etc… as I hardly know the difference between

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