The Magic of Engineering for the Customer
Creating a schedule for the first time can be a daunting task, especially for a first year engineering student. There are so many aspects to consider…
One of the many reasons that I applied to Tufts Engineering School was the easy access to the Arts and Science School and what I characterized as a “low wall” in my application. Last semester while choosing my course load of engineering courses I would take this semester, I also had room in my schedule reach over that low wall and take a Global Feminisms course that at many STEM only schools would be nearly impossible. Not only has this class been a breath of fresh air from my calculus, physics, and electrical systems problem sets, but it has also allowed me to grow in ways beyond what a programming or math class could.
Using different parts of your brain to develop diverse skills of analyzation and thinking is incredibly important now and will be later in life when I’m in the workforce that requires me to understand more than just how to code, but also be a decent human being that can interact with others. Yes, those interactions will probably not relate to an anthropologic discussion of feminist society, but the skillset to work in a group or analyze a set of user interactions to code will be able to flourish through my exposure to classrooms past the computer or physics lab.
While all of this is relevant to why I took the class, as I said before it also acts as a deep breath of fresh air in a subject I am passionate about in wildly different ways than why I like to code. Not to mention that the professor of my course could lead a class about watching paint dry and make it enthralling. Although I love my major, which I just officially declared, and my computer science lecture, the feminisms course I am taking this semester is one of the most intriguing classes I’m currently in. The opportunities of this nature that Tufts offers are endless and without a doubt one of the best parts of attending an engineering school that isn’t all problem sets and labs, but instead has a hint of another type of life in it.
Photo Credit: George Postoronca (Flickr Creative Commons) combined with a personal photo.
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