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I’m here, now what? I spent freshman year taking all the necessary classes, spending hours studying just to transition to mechanical engineering. The great thing about Purdue is you get to delve deep into your major almost immediately after transitioning into it. I had known what I wanted and how I was going to get it. But as I sat in my first Thermodynamics lecture, I had never felt more unsure of whether I belonged there. Engineering courses are never easy, I knew that going into my Thermodynamics class. But with Thermodynamics, and most engineering courses, it’s important to understand the fundamentals, as everything builds on them. I knew that I had to seek out help soon. I started scouring my course pages, Purdue’s website, and asking all my teachers where I could go to get help. I discovered that the mechanical engineering department holds many “help rooms”, that run from 9am-5pm, in which students could get access to personalized assistance from teaching assistants on their ME c...