Why was the School of Engineering the right place for you?
I knew I wanted to do engineering, but it was also important to me to get a liberal arts education. Other schools I visited seemed to be creating engineers who were good at doing math and science, but who didn’t focus as much on the problems they were trying to solve. I thought, “How can I be a good engineer if I don’t even know what I’m trying to solve, or if I can’t figure out what the actual problems are?”
All this deep knowledge in the necessary math and science is great-but it doesn’t give you anything if you don’t know what you’re working toward. Tufts seemed to offer the whole package, and I fell in love with that.
Also, a lot of other engineering schools gave the impression that they didn’t necessarily want their engineers to succeed. At Tufts, the message was, “A lot of engineering is hard, and we…
