First Blog Post!

My name is Jamie Crawford and I am currently a pre-engineering major.  Being such a broad field, engineering is somewhat scary for me because I do not know what field I want to go into.  I have one more year here at Furman before I transfer to another school and declare a major in a specified engineering field.  I hope to get into Georgia Tech for my last two years of the Dual-Degree program.  I am certainly more interested in Civics or even Architecture or Chemical Engineering.  My cousin Samantha graduated with a degree in Bio-chemical Engineering and works for Proctor&Gamble and enjoys her job so that is a route that I would also consider.  I also took a class in computer programming during my Freshman year and found that interesting so I could also see myself pursuing that.  Basically, I haven't the slightest clue what I want to do yet so I am still working that out.

As far as this class goes, I think it could help me out in multiple ways.  The workplace is becoming increasingly digital and a basic understanding gives me value to a company.  Also, if my job were to include designing anything it would be very important to know how to use to the software.  I am also eager to learn how to make a website.  Every company needs to have their information available online through an efficient, user-friendly site and there will always be jobs for people in Web Design. 

I have seen many Engineering firms around the Greenville area so for my topic I could talk to some of them.  I could share what projects they are working on and how they are going about completing them.  This would also give me a lot of helpful insight into the field.  It will be valuable to see some of what goes on considering I have not had an internship or done any time shadowing.  Another topic that interesting me is the Greenville Drive baseball team.  I could do research on the team and post about all of their games, how the players are doing, who has potential, who the team is looking at.  I'm sure there would be enough news going on with the team right now for me to blog about.  A third potential topic I would be interesting in posting about would be politics in South Carolina.  Because I attend school here, it only makes sense that I should know what is going on in the state.  Admittedly, I don't follow what goes on as much as I should.  Speaking of which, I still need to register to vote....oops.