What Neil deGrasse Tyson Taught Me About Talking to People Who Aren’t Engineers
A few weeks ago I went to “The Universe Is Absurd,” an unscripted conversation between Neil deGrasse Tyson and William Shatner at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. What I got was two hours of two very different people thinking out loud together about space, their trip to […]
How Robotics Competitions First Made Me Love Engineering
I first realized that I was not just a destructive child who liked breaking things apart when I was eleven years old. I programmed a Lego robot to do something I wasn’t sure if it could actually do, and lost my mind when it did it. It was my first robotics competition, and I had […]
Why I Build Things That Might Not Work
When people think about aerospace engineering students, they probably picture someone buried in problem sets, solving differential equations at 2 a.m. And yeah, that’s part of it. But if you ask me what’s actually shaped the way I think as an engineer, it’s not the homework. It’s the random stuff I built just because I […]