{"id":67,"date":"2011-11-08T13:02:12","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.katieluper.com\/?p=67"},"modified":"2011-11-08T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T13:02:12","slug":"shout-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katieluper.com\/?p=67","title":{"rendered":"Shout out!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Squee! I got a little shout out on my new favorite podcast, The Amp Hour<\/a>. I have to admit, it was a little weird listening to two strangers discuss my decision to go into electrical engineering but I’m always open to opinions. I have a brief discussion of my story in my inaugural post<\/a>, but I wanted to address some of the questions posed in the podcast.<\/p>\n

Why?<\/p>\n

Many reasons. I went into undergrad convinced that I wanted to be a medical doctor and so I majored in biochemistry. I loved DNA and genetics and I thought that this would be the best fit. Little did I know that biochemistry was mostly horribly confusing cycles like this<\/a>. I worked in a lab researching chemokines<\/a> for about a year and a half and realized that my options were some sort of professional school, a PhD in Biochem or going into something like pharma sales. I spent a summer working at a large law firm and really enjoyed it so to law school I went.<\/p>\n

Then, I learned what lawyering was really about. It was not the shiny 9-5 internship that I did over the summer. It was a job of long days, long nights and minimal weekends. In big firms, most of the clients are large companies and cases drag on for years, sometimes decades. I spent a summer in law school working at a local non-profit and loved the work but couldn’t see myself lasting very long before getting really burned out.<\/p>\n

My husband likes to tell the story of one day during my first semester of law school, I was so frustrated with the socratic method and the “grey logic” that I pulled out an old differential equations book and started working problems. I craved the simplicity and beauty of pure math. I craved the notion of a “right answer.” I was too stubborn to recognize that maybe that was an indicator that law school was not the best fit for me so I finished law school.<\/p>\n

Did I work as a lawyer?<\/p>\n

I did a variety of internships during law school and clerked for a judge but never worked as a lawyer. Due to hefty scholarships and family support, I managed to get through undergrad and law school without loans, which gave me the freedom to head back to school. I was a little nervous about the experience but it’s just as magical as I thought it would be. I’m actually really good<\/a> at it so far.<\/p>\n

Did I tinker much as a kid?<\/p>\n

Not really. I was more of a bookworm\/math geek. I read . . . a lot. Anything and everything I could get my hands on. I had older brothers so I loved legos and such and I made various contraptions but I didn’t have anything as dramatic as Feynman’s propensity for fixing radios as a teeny lad. I LOVED “brain teasers” and those kind of problems that really made you think. I remember reading the “Sideways Stories From Wayside School<\/a>” in second grade which introduced verbal arithmetic<\/a>\u00a0and I was hooked on that for a while.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I really need to go study for my programming exam, so I’m going to end this fairly abruptly. I went to a lecture on robotics last night and I plan to address that later today, get ready!<\/p>\n

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Squee! I got a little shout out on my new favorite podcast, The Amp Hour. I have to admit, it was a little weird listening to two strangers discuss my decision to go into electrical engineering but I’m always open to opinions. I have a brief discussion of my story in my inaugural post, but … <\/p>\n

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