I am planning on getting my degree in Engineering (Sweet Briar does not give degrees in the different types of engineering so it's just engineering) with a minor in Government (poly-sci at most institutions). I want to work as a professional engineer but I also would love to work in Washington. I'm not entirely sure. I just know that I would like to help people and too often I see on the news or read in the paper about science and technology that is blacklisted on Capitol hill by politicians who have law degrees. They did not study (some of them 30-40-50 years ago) to be scientists and so they have to hire PACs or take the word of lobbyists who have there own agendas to even completely understand the issues. And I don't know how to fix this but I know I want to. And I know I want to work for the greater good, and somehow pushing forward with urban sprawl (while fulfilling a great need in our society) just doesn't seem like what I want to spend my life doing. And the greatest way that I know to effect society is through the institutions that control it or through the technology in which we live our lives... and that's Government and Engineering.

Wed, 24 Sep 2008