- This is how excited I am to talk to you about engineering.
By the way, did you ever notice
that I have a kayak in my room?
It's right there, one of two kayaks actually.
So welcome, everyone, back to my channel.
Basically, I love engineering,
and I wanted to tell you why I love engineering
and why you should love engineering too,
even if you're in the middle of exams right now,
and you have everything and you hate everyone.
Here are some reasons why engineering is still the best
and why you should continue doing it.
Okay, reasons why I love being an (speaks gibberish)
Reasons why I love being an engineer.
Number one, it's fun, is it fun, yes, it is.
Once you find something within your domain
that you like, it's fun, I promise.
Just find out what you like within engineering.
Number two, two, number two,
you're never the smartest person in the room.
There's always someone smarter than you
and always something that you can learn from someone else.
Number three, literally no problem seems too difficult
for me to solve, even if it's something impossible,
like I actually went climbing a mountain.
And I didn't have the proper shoes at all,
and everyone was like,
"You can't go climbing this glacier in those shoes."
And I'm like, "Watch me."
To be fair, I almost died,
but my engineering mindset was like,
"If I can work on a code that like on a script
"that will never ever work and the day before I have
"to hand it in, it starts working,
"then I can climb this mountian in these shoes."
And I did, and I didn't die, even though I could've died.
But okay, basically, there's no problem
that you will not be able to solve
because you will stick it through.
Four, security, it's especially scary for me
because I live in Switzerland, and I can get kicked out
of the country at any moment.
But with the engineering degree, I feel like pretty secure,
like I'll be able to find something in Switzerland.
Five is the pay, the internships that I've had
in the past have been paid way more than other internships.
Actually, some of my friends are in like studying
to be doctors and whatever, M.D.'s,
and all of like the internships that they've had,
they've had to like volunteer in hospitals
and volunteer here and volunteer there.
And they're always surprised to know
that like engineering internships are paid.
And I'm like, "Well, yeah, I'm not gonna do
"like real engineering work for a firm for free.
"Are they kidding me, like no."
Like who's gonna do engineering work for free, no one.
Six is I have an extremely logical approach
to life decisions.
I'm just very logical in all of my decision making,
and so far, it's worked out for me.
And I really like that about myself,
but that came about from like studying engineering.
So as I studied more engineering,
this sort of developed within me.
So I'm sort of, I appreciate engineering
for giving that to me.
Okay, seven, I don't let emotions influence my decisions.
Just throughout all of the stress
of doing like engineering projects,
I have like suppressed my emotions.
Does that make sense?
(laughs)
Like I'm able to put my emotions in a box
and focus on the task at hand,
and I think that's a really useful skill to have.
Okay, eight, I'm very critical
of information that I receive.
Most of the time, if I see something on Facebook
or wherever else, like I won't take the information
given to me at face value.
Like a lot of the time, I wanna see date behind it.
I think it's important to be able
to pull from different sources and develop your own opinion
on subjects instead of just like listening
to what other people are saying.
And number nine is I've become super efficient
at everything I do.
For me, throughout my undergrad,
like what I got really good at,
is I work, work, work, work, work,
and then like Friday night, I'm able to go get a beer
and like watch the hockey game or something like that.
Okay, number 10 is just like, it just goes with number nine.
Like I efficiently plan my time,
getting things done efficiently, but also planning things
so that they can be done efficiently
when I get around to doing them.
Number 11 is I'm able to find the root of any problem,
and I know I say any problem.
But like even when my friends are having like problems with,
I don't know, family or personal issues,
I feel like a psychologist sometimes.
Like I'm able to like figure out
why are they feeling this way?
Why are they acting this way?
I don't know, like it's weird,
but I think that's due to engineering.
Maybe I just think everything is due to engineering,
but I wasn't like this before I went into undergrad
and now I'm pretty much an emotional guru.
Maybe that's because I don't have emotions,
and I'm trying to figure out why other people have emotions.
Okay, 12, there's a lot less jealousy in engineering.
It's like I know my friends were in business.
They would be like, "Oh, I can't miss a class,"
and I'm like, "Why not just ask a friend for like notes?"
They're like, "No, no one will give me notes.
"Like people don't share notes in business
"because blah, blah, blah, blah.
"They wanna get ahead, blah, blah, Blah."
And I'm like, "That's stupid," like just tell them,
"No, give me your notes."
And like if someone, if one of my friends,
if I went into an engineering class, and I was like,
"Hey, can you give me notes?
"I wasn't here for the last three months."
Like people would hand them over, and if they didn't,
I'd be like, "Give me your notes, who do you think you are?"
I haven't seen any jealousy in engineering
because we're all suffering together.
Number 13, I don't overthink things too much.
I think that's like a great skill to have.
Engineering has allowed me to not overthink things
and generally just not care about anything.
(laughs)
14, I feel like I always have emergency topics
to talk about, for example, I once went on a date
with this guy, and I literally ran out of things to say
so I started to explain entropy to him.
He had no idea what I was talking about, but I was just,
the more I talked about it, the more excited I got.
And I never heard back from him again.
(laughs)
15, engineering is super versatile.
Like not only are there different fields of engineering,
like civil, mechanical, electrical, chemical,
but with each one of those fields,
there are so many different domains.
Like mechanical, I can't even begin to explain mechanical,
like there's robotics.
Like I do combustion, like it's just so broad.
There's definitely something
everyone can find that they like.
16, certain parts of engineering
don't actually require that much heavy math.
Like what I do, I do turbulent flows,
and that's like a lot of the Navier-Stokes equations,
if you know what any of that is.
And that's a lot of math, but there are a lot of parts
of engineering that actually don't require that much math.
At the beginning, everyone has to learn calculus
and ordinary differential equations, but later on,
I would say that you can definitely find
some engineering fields that don't rely that much on math.
Number 17, math and physics actually get to be applied
to real life problems, isn't that great?
Like you thought you wouldn't need any of that math
or physics in high school, and I'm here to tell you
that you're gonna need it.
18, it gives you opportunities to travel!
I am in Switzerland because I mean,
I guess you could argue that with any job,
if you work for a big, international company,
there's also opportunities to travel with those.
19, you get to meet inspiring people
in your work and school.
In engineering, generally, I find that it's
a very international crowd.
Like you have people that come from all over the world
that came to study at McGill in Canada,
and now I'm at ETH Zurich in Switzerland.
And like everyone in this program is international.
Number 20, you don't just do work that you really like,
but you also do really meaningful work.
I just find that like with engineering solutions,
you're actually doing them for like a real world purpose,
and I really like that.
21 is engineering is a huge supportive group of people.
Like I said, it's not competitive.
You're all suffering together.
It's pretty great to have friends.
(laughs)
I just find that engineering
is a really supportive community.
Like even now, I'm meeting other YouTubers,
and I find that like if I was in any other niche,
or niche, whatever, I'm convinced
that other YouTubers wouldn't want to help me out.
I have like this feeling that
because I'm in the engineering niche, niche,
that that is why other YouTubers are helping me out
because they have that engineering mindset.
Okay, alright, okay, I think that's enough
for you to mull over, thank you so much for watching.
If you have any reasons why you love engineering,
then please leave them in the comments below.
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I know I'm being really weird right now,
but it's because my camera's about to die.
And so, I'm like just trying to talk as fast as I can.
Yes, that's it, thank you so much for watching.
I love you guys so much.
I'm really sorry I'm being weird.