Touring the options at Texas Tech

Last Thursday, my family and I took a trip to Lubbock so I could take my first college tour at Texas Tech!

We woke up Friday morning and went on the general campus tour. The general tour was a tour showing where everything is while telling some of the fun facts and stories behind the campus and its buildings. Then we went to lunch, and I had the amazing opportunity to eat lunch with the Dean of the Graduate School and his council. He was a very fun guy, and he was very adamant on my going to Tech.

After lunch, I got to go on a more specific tour where I got to meet with a representative from each of the departments I was interested in. The first department was the Biology department where I got to meet with a professor of microbiology. He told me a lot about getting into college, and then he took me around and showed me some of the snakes that they have in their reptile lab.

The next department I met with was the mathematics where I met with a representative who helped me see which classes I would need to take in order to graduate with the degree I want. Then, at the very end of the day I went and met with a professor of Mechanical Engineering who helped point me in the direction I want to graduate and helped me narrow down what I want to graduate with.

After we were done meeting, he took me to the basement where they have a shop where the mechanical engineering classes work on projects, and I immediately fell in love. They had a room full of 3D printers, they even had a metal 3D printer to print parts they can’t machine. Then he showed me some of the projects, and they had a Mars rover and a jet engine that was made for a senior project.

After the trip, I have decided what I want to do. I want to graduate with a degree in Mechanical Engineering with a focus in Aerospace Engineering.

I am so excited that I was given the opportunity to go meet with these people and that they were so kind to me. Texas Tech is definitely at the top of my list!