The IB Student Experience

How did you guys decide that you liked engineering? Is that just that it just kind of started at an early age or do you have a family member involved or...

Yeah, we do.

Both my parents actually are software engineers.

So we kind of got that experience from an early age.

And then math is kind of something that was always with us too.

Ever since I was in fourth grade, we were part of this advanced math community that had classes on Saturday.

And since we both really liked math and we had that experience from our parents being software engineers, we kind of transitioned into the engineering path in and of itself.

I do remember my dad wanted me to be a doctor.

I took some biology classes, but I didn't really like them that much.

So I kind of stuck with engineering.

But another thing that my sister mentioned is we both really like econ and we're kind of thinking of minoring in business or economics when we go to college because it's a side hobby or passion that we're really interested in.

We also do Model UN, which is that same thinking of debating with others and talking through solutions and stuff, which we kind of feel like is really important in the business aspect as well.

And I feel like engineering and business kind of intersect sucked a lot in the real world especially when you have all of these young engineers creating their own startups to identify solutions and problems and they have to market those as well but yeah

Yeah, I recently did a podcast about, actually with an IB teacher from Michigan who was an economics teacher.

And it was fun for me to kind of learn the economics course a little bit and how it's connected to so many things.

Just the idea that if you think about the IB mission to create a better, more peaceful world, a lot of what economics is about is limited resources and how those are distributed and how the problem solving that goes into getting those out.

And so when you think about your future in economics or your future in engineering, you There's a lot of economics problems that need to be solved.

And so when you think about a mission driven career, I think it's really cool that you're finding yourself interested in the different layers of how your career might look.

It's not just about can you actually figure out the angle of attack or the exoplanet that's livable, those kind of things.

It's a lot more going on.

So it's I love that.

I'm glad we're getting to know a little bit more about kind of how you're looking at the whole thing.

And I'll just jump, I'll save this question about college later.

So remind me, I have to get back to that.