A Girl Likes Engineering? What?

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Idiosyncrasies- I love Engineering. Why is this my idiosyncrasy? Simply because I am a girl. Many girls like fashion or politics or literally anything else, but I love engineering. I have literally grown up surrounded by engineering. Both of my parents are engineers-my mom is a mechanical and aerospace engineer and my dad is an electrical engineer. From when I was really young to present day, I love visiting my mom's two labs with her college students. There are always past projects hanging up on the walls, and new ones being worked on in the middle of the lab. I have traveled to Denver, Colorado at least 5 times with my parents on a college project trip sending a payload to the edge of Earth's atmosphere and flying around taking pictures. The projects that my mom runs range from designing safer jumps for horses (the prototypes were used in the warm up arena of the World Equestrian Games) to designing model airplane wings that simply bend their shape to fly (like a bird) to building things that have ended up on the space station. My dad usually coordinates his student projects with my mom letting his students figure out the wiring and my mom's students figuring out the outside design. Listening to all of the talk about what the students are accomplishing and what the students are testing has always led me to want to do the same things. I learned how to solder (bind two wires together) when I was nine and I have always have been designing new ways to improve things like water quality or the horse jumps or anything else. I love building the things I design and seeing if they work. This is my Idiosyncrasy. I could go on and on and on about engineering and building because I love it so much.