The Engineering Experience

At our first volunteer night of the Spring 2022 semester, current female engineering students were asked to write a letter giving advice or words of wisdom to their high school selves. Writing letters to yourself allows you to better visualize your current goals and put your life into perspective. It also helps you reflect on your present self while also allowing yourself to think about what you would like to implement into your future. Here are what some Purdue students had to say to their past selves! WIEP Members with their Letters at Volunteer Night Don’t Stress and Over-Plan Your Future! It may seem like you are being proactive by trying to plan everything you want to accomplish while in college, but overplanning events and situations can cause you to be overstressed and worried about sticking to your rigid college ideas. College is an environment that allows you to constantly learn how to grow and adapt to new situations, and part of the experience is to teach yourself how to man...