Mina Schaafsma’s road to engineering was not always clear. She started at the University
of South Carolina’s Honors College in 2020 as a psychology major before deciding that biomedical engineering was her path. Schaafsma’s change of major also aligned with her interest in making
clothes.
“I always love doing projects, and I think that’s why I wanted to change to engineering
because I wasn’t getting that creative feeling,” Schaafsma says.
Schaafsma lived in South Quad and the Rhodos Fellows live and learn community. The Rhodos Fellows community is the information, design
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