-: Yeah, you really wanna, obviously,
pick a major that you're passionate about.
For me aerospace was always something
that I was very passionate about.
Growing up I loved Star Wars,
I loved the World War II movies,
so it was a very natural engineering field for me.
So that's step number one,
because you're never gonna love homework,
but you gotta be able to kinda ...
I still have times where I kind of liked the homework,
so that's a good sign.
And then I think some of the good things you want to do
if you want to go into an industry role,
being well rounded is really important,
so taking classes where you need to do some writing
beyond just technical writing.
I think more of a literature type writing style
can be helpful when you go into a professional environment,
because then you know how to create presentations well,
you know how to write an email really delicately
to a vice president if you need to, that kind of thing.
And then from a technical well rounded standpoint,
I think stuff like statistics,
like a statistics class is really valuable,
because you can apply that
same concept to any sort of data.
I think, first of all, having
some cross functional leadership experience
is really important.
It's really good to see that people have been able to
lead a project that was more than just engineers, possibly.
An example would be if you had experience with
transitioning a product into the factory
or into production, you're gonna have to interact
with a lot of the people on the factory operations side,
a lot of people on the sourcing and procurement side.
So more than just the technical aspects,
I think it's really important, in my shoes.
And then having some of those situations in your resume
that you can talk to about yeah this was
a really high pressure situation,
we had a really difficult deadline
and being able to articulate how you handled that stress
and you were still able to deliver the end goal
within the stipulations
of whatever the tough situation you were in.
I think that's obviously really big
is if you can take that ambiguous difficult situation
and you can kinda break that problem down
into smaller chunks
and being able to articulate that
effectively is really important.