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mylien
“I unfortunately have a math class I’m going to. It took me a while to kind
of figure out what I wanted to do here at LSU. I had met some people along
the way with different careers that I’m into, and chemical engineering
sparked my interest. It felt like it was something that I could thrive at doing.
There are all kinds of stuff you encounter studying it, and I really think
the program is challenging all together. Sometimes you feel like quitting
and then towards the end of the semester you finally get everything. It
feels really accomplishing to say that you got this material that you knew
you had a hard time with at the beginning. I see this as a means to have
financial freedom in a sense. It’s a career that’s really beneficial in southern
Louisiana. On top of that, they pay really well, and they care about their
employees most of the time. I’m hoping to find a company that will hire me
in that way. I guess my overall goal is to have the money to be able to travel
and pay off my own student loans. I like to travel a lot! I think everyone
does. Austria is the coolest place I’ve visited. That’s mainly because it’s a
place I never really thought of as being so exciting. Eastern Europe as a
whole is so different. You can travel the distance of what would be the span
of a state here and the whole culture changes. And when you’re in Austria,
it has a very mountainous terrain, and the people are very proud to be from
where they are. I think it’s interesting. Everyone’s really friendly and the
weather is gorgeous too. There’s just a whole lot to love about that place!”