>> I would say, you know, challenge yourself.
You know, when I remember back to when I was a freshman at Villanova and I came
in as a physics major and I didn't have no idea what I was going to do with a physics degree.
After my first semester I realized that I didn't think physics was going to work out.
And so I went home at Christmas and I was contemplating a shift into, you know,
another degree with in Villanova.
I wasn't planning on transferring but I needed to do something different.
So I was rattling around the ideas of what I was going to major in after physics.
And hadn't really thought about engineering a whole lot.
It didn't have a lot of mentors that kind of gave me that advice, to stick with engineering
but my next door neighbor was a Michigan State alum.
He was an engineer.
You know, I never really spent much time talking to him about engineering and he said,
listen you've never backed down from a challenge.
You know, you've always tried to overachieve, why would you, you know,
settle on maybe a degree path that would be an easier way out?
Why don't you explore engineering?
So that's what I did and that's what I've always said to young people.
I say, listen, maybe engineering isn't the thing you want to do.
Pick something that's of interest to you but work hard at it.
And at the same time, you know, stay well rounded, stay grounded, stay centered
but always think about giving back.
Being a good person, you know, not trying to squash the hopes
of somebody else that, you know, to your benefit.
And stay involved.