What would you say to them right now?

Yeah, so I'd say that I came to this school very excited to learn but also very excited to build.

As the dean put so well just moments ago, engineering is about the process of creation.

And so getting to do that early on I think is super important if you are to learn what kind of engineer you want to be and make the choices about what kind of path you want to take in your education.

And so I think you can absolutely hit the ground running on day one, like I did, and just immediately start learning by doing.

Obviously, your classwork is important, but I think having a little bit of a baseline, knowing what the parts of a rocket are, knowing the basics of how to do structural analysis, makes a lot of that work more engaging, more exciting, and also just makes it easier to learn.

once you already have a little bit of a baseline, you know what a nozzle is, and you have some idea of how flow through it might go, you'll take that class, you'll take fluid dynamics, and suddenly the things will make a lot more sense.

Where did you learn those on campus? Or was it the Rocket Lab that really helped exercise those soft skills? Or do you feel like there's other parts of your undergraduate experience where you've been able to exercise those soft skills to demonstrate that on the employer side?