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Undergraduate mechanical engineers discuss their experiences at Johns Hopkins University. Visit https://me.jhu.edu/ for more information. [Transcript] It's just such a special place where you can do high level research as an undergrad. I was really interested in STEM from a young age, and I knew that this place was just the best. All the professors expect a lot of you and you want to do well, so I feel like that motivates every student who comes through here to do the best they can. The mechanical engineering department is on the smaller side here, which I think has been really beneficial for me. I've gotten to know a couple of professors really well, and that's been really special. I became a design team leader at the beginning of my sophomore year, and I was really happy with the hands-on experience that I got so early in my academic career. I'm part of the varsity field hockey team, and even though I have a lot of practices and have a lot of games I've been able to do things like Baja, which is essentially you build your own car and you're able to drive it. There's just so many opportunities here to get involved in things outside the classroom. The mechanical engineering senior design project is really special because it allows us to work with an industry sponsor and learn how professional engineers work. I chose Johns Hopkins because it's such a strong research institution. The advantage of Hopkins is that there's so much research around that everyone has an opportunity to do what they like to do. It's really cool to be able to expand my horizons, meet a ton of new people all from different places, different backgrounds. Baltimore is a great city. It's really easy to get downtown to go to baseball games, to go to the Inner Harbor, and really explore the city. One of the things that I've enjoyed most about the university and Baltimore in general is that everything is within walking distance. I'm certainly never bored here, and there's a lot of different things to get out and explore and do. My undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University afforded me several internships during the summers. After my sophomore year, I interned at a startup that was founded by Johns Hopkins students. My junior year, I did an internship at an autonomous underwater vehicle company. I was a mechanical engineer there, and I got to help build some of the pressure vessels and design some of the avionics for their systems. After my junior year, I interned at NASA down in Texas, where I did thermal engineering. And I think Hopkins has really prepared me through all of my interviews, through challenging coursework, and my professors have certainly been really helpful in helping me make my decisions and prepare for what's to come after Hopkins.