My Educational Path
Denver Wiederin
The career of my choice has changed tremendously over my lifetime. Often it’s greatly dependent on what kind of activities I’m interested in at the time, as well what’s/who’s influencing me.
The job that I first wanted, when I was much younger, was to be a game designer. Since I can remember, I’ve always been a considerable video game fan, and I wanted to translate that into a career that would allow me to do what I love and be creative in the process. After a while I came to terms that it was relatively unlikely that I would be a successful and well known game designer so I dropped that dream. The next job to catch my eye was working as a graphic designer which occurred during an artistic phase of my life where I would draw ritually. To no surprise, my imagination snagged the better of me as I speculated that it would be intriguing to do it for a profession. That too was short lived. Subconsciously, I knew my drawings were mediocre and a professional artist has to be superb. Finally came my recent obsession, becoming a mechanical engineer. …show more content…
Curiously, I don’t know what it was about it, but abruptly it happened. An epiphany! For no foreseeable reason, I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. What an engineer did was beyond me, especially a mechanical one, but I trusted my gut instinct and when an opportunity arose to visit an engineering program here at CTE, I did not hesitate. When I came and visited for Step Up day, there wasn’t a thought of hesitation to come here or not; I knew it was for
Denver Wiederin
The career of my choice has changed tremendously over my lifetime. Often it’s greatly dependent on what kind of activities I’m interested in at the time, as well what’s/who’s influencing me.
The job that I first wanted, when I was much younger, was to be a game designer. Since I can remember, I’ve always been a considerable video game fan, and I wanted to translate that into a career that would allow me to do what I love and be creative in the process. After a while I came to terms that it was relatively unlikely that I would be a successful and well known game designer so I dropped that dream. The next job to catch my eye was working as a graphic designer which occurred during an artistic phase of my life where I would draw ritually. To no surprise, my imagination snagged the better of me as I speculated that it would be intriguing to do it for a profession. That too was short lived. Subconsciously, I knew my drawings were mediocre and a professional artist has to be superb. Finally came my recent obsession, becoming a mechanical engineer. …show more content…
Curiously, I don’t know what it was about it, but abruptly it happened. An epiphany! For no foreseeable reason, I wanted to be a mechanical engineer. What an engineer did was beyond me, especially a mechanical one, but I trusted my gut instinct and when an opportunity arose to visit an engineering program here at CTE, I did not hesitate. When I came and visited for Step Up day, there wasn’t a thought of hesitation to come here or not; I knew it was for