become an engineer

I’ve had my degree for awhile now. It’s a bachelor’s of science in electrical engineering technology.

A lot of regular EE’s talk flack about EET’s. But y’know what? Don’t care. I loved my program, I liked the more hands on real life approach. I loved my internships at the mining company and the paper plant. the calculus was crazy (EET’s at my school take calc 1-3 required. I took linear algebra, discrete math 1 and 2 as well for my engineering electives but not Diff eq, which is required for EE’s) Besides I want to be a field engineer for awhile, not a theorist. And I can licensed in most states including my homestate.

Add to this the fact that eventually I’d like to get my master’s in some type of engineering studies (not sure if it will be electrical though) which will negate this stigma on EET’s anyway.

The next step is to get my EIT license but for that I will have to figure what state I’m going to be in for awhile since it’s apparently easier to transfer a P.E, usually if you’re an EIT you have to take the test again and start over (correct me if I’m wrong). I’m in americorps until July so I think I won’t probably sit for the EIT until at least 2011.

So I went B&N today and bought some sparknotes for my last 2 reading assignments: The Tempest by Shakespeare and Paradise Lost (loud dramatic scream) by John Milton. Not to concerned about the shakespeare assignment. But Paradise Lost… can’t I just draft a layout of heaven and hell… or write a program. It’s odd but when I was in highschool I was a much better …”word person”. I still love to read and I speak English okay. But my grammar has become horrible. With every passing year of writing abstracts and lab reports it actually gets worse and worse. In my engineering classes it just wasn’t a problem and now I’m used to it. I’ve gotten so engineer-ified.

I’m really considering volunteering for a year. I have had a lot of issues in my department and job-searching, stupid things. And I think I better go out and create some good in the world before I do something I regret. For the first time in my whole life I think I don’t want to be an engineer. But I think it’s just that I’m disheartened.

Can you believe that world literature is the MAIN thing keeping me from finish my Bachelor’s in Engineering Technology. I like reading, but I hate reading renaissance and medieval literature. and I have horrible grammar when writing long detailed sentences… my professor (it’s an online class) keeps telling me I write things too brief.

... I HATE CORE CLASSES.

Well I’m interning @ international paper via hargrove and associates ( a engineering consulting firm) in the mill engineering dept. I’ll be graduating in June and I already have a job lined up as a distribution engineer for Southern Company (Ga. Power) which I recently found out is the 8th largest power company in the world! how crazy is that…. i’m so close!!!!!!

The person who inspired me to be engineer was my sister when she went to school to be a engineer. Ever since I was 7 I knew I wanted to be an engineer…. and not just to be a copy cat. I was a tinkering little child…the one that takes apart the radio, the clock….the car. I’m studying engineering technology at georgia southern rite now. Electrical. But now I’m thinking of for my Master’s to get it in Industrial design… but it’s related….rite??