ScienceMakers Toolkit Manual - The History Makers

Engineering
processing theory, so it’s a lot of aspects of our everyday life that you know, are impacted by these technologies
but we’re unaware of them. And so I mean, at the time I didn’t realize how rich and fertile a feeding ground this
was going to be. It was just something I was trying to put together in order to justify getting full salary and, you
know, going to Georgia Tech.
Clip 6 - Time at Georgia Tech: I got there and I actually thought, this is pretty damn hard. I’m like, it was
really hard, I mean, I had really grown as an engineer, I mean I was much, much better than when I fi rst came
out of Old Dominion and I was like, this is still pretty damn hard. I mean, I was, I wasn’t sure I was, it was the
fi rst time that I wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to complete it. I mean, I was really doubtful, it’s like when
you try out for a team, you know, there’s some really good players out here, I don’t know if I’m going to make
it, like you really don’t know. And I didn’t know if I had what it took to make the cut at Georgia Tech, I really
didn’t know and up until almost ‘til I graduated, I really didn’t know, but I kept pushing hard and that’s what I
wanted, I wanted to be challenged like that, I wanted to know that failure was easily imminent if I didn’t give
it my hundred and ten percent, I wanted to really push myself like that. And Georgia Tech, Georgia Tech has
this whole different way of teaching you to think, they teach you to think smart, you know, and in that sense,
that they think that before you start writing down, my other classes, all my schools, you get credit for work, just
writing down a lot of stuff, you know, whether it was cohesive or not, you just write a bunch of stuff. Georgia
Tech professors, they don’t like that, that’s wasting their time. If you write a bunch of stuff, and as soon as you
start deviating from what’s right, they just give it a zero. Zero it out. So it took me like almost a whole semester
to get used to the whole process of the Georgia Tech way of thinking and actually, I say that’s why Georgia Tech
engineers rank number one in terms of productivity and industry, they teach you to think about the problem fi rst
and try to fi nd out what’s the essence of what you’re trying to solve. And then only once you understand the essence
of what you’re trying to solve, then use the tools that they’ve given you to solve the problem.
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