#The vet didn't know troll biology :(

[thebeeshaveknees]

Just because Branch is the one that gets kidnapped doesn't mean the twins don't also get Floyd, Branch just gets him out while he's still trapped. Floyd is having a terrible guilt saturated time but Oh Well

[soyouwanttobeanengineer]

So you got told you're not good enough for engineering:

When I was in high school I thought I wanted to be a vet my freshman year...yeah I know those animal ark books I read all through grade school kinda gave me horse girl dreams...

Anyways. Then we had the dreaded frog dissections... I literally left the class to stop gagging... I realized that was not for me. I still make a yuck face just thinking about dissections.

At the time, my older bro was on the robotics team, so I figured I'd join. My biology teacher was also the one in charge and he really encouraged me to join. My older brother... did not... he didn't want me around his friends and he was also well known for making sexist jokes in school.

I joined anyways and loved every minute of it. I learned how to use saws, I took apart motors, I learned how to be inventive with what our low budget team had to work with. I also learned how to deal with being the only girl.

I learned that I was not into any of the guys, but that they took me joking with them as flirting. I learned how to not care and tell them to go die in a hole like the trolls they were. I learned how to speak up and be heard.

I remember being second guessed a lot. I remember being told not to worry about the actual details of how to build it.

I was never directly told I wasn't good enough. But it was in the side comments, in the waving my ideas off, it was in the "you bring us diversity" remarks by people.

I loved it anyways. I wanted to create things! I wanted to build things! And by junior year, I knew I wanted to go to college for engineering. I had earned my place on the team by that point.

I was captain my senior year. That year, my freshman biology teacher, the one who was in charge of robotics, offered an independent study course where you got to to research whatever science project you wanted. I did an easy thing with batteries and loved it. I loved learning and math and building and creating.

I enrolled for college in civil engineering. I'll talk about college in another post.

I know this is kinda a long past, and it didn't go into any crazy specifics, but I want anyone out there who thinks that they're not good enough, smart enough, tough enough for a career to know that we've all been there and you are enough. You as yourself, can do it. You just have to try.

-A Future Engineer