Academic Journey

I studied ECE (Electrical & Computer Engineering) at Cornell University and graduated as part of the Class of 2017 with a bachelors degree.

Prior to Cornell, I studied Electrical Engineering at Stony Brook University in Long Island, NY for 2 years before transferring to Cornell. I was at Stony Brook from 2013-2015 and then transferred to Cornell 2015-2017.

A New Perspective

Studying ECE at Cornell was an incredible experience - although difficult and pushed to the limits many times, the ultimate payoff was worth the effort put in.

The biggest takeaway from studying ECE was the way of thinking it instills in you. It teaches you how to break apart problems and think both broadly and deeply.

You are taught to think broadly because you cover so many different topics in ECE - each semester you take new courses that can be fundamentally different from courses you took in the past. You learn how to learn - being able to quickly pick up new concepts and adapt as you go.

You are taught to think deeply because for each topic you learn, you need to truly understand the subject at its core and how to piece together different components to come to a solution.

There is always that "Aha" moment in each course, the moment when halfway through the semester, all the previously segmented pieces of info you learned suddenly 'click' together and you see how they are all interconnected to each other.

The Smartest People you will Meet

One of the most valuable perks of studying ECE at Cornell were the people I met, from fellow ECE classmates to the professors.

The students were some of the smartest people I ever met and they taught me how to think in different ways and I always had the confidence in their intellect. These students were chess masters, dabble in 3D printing at home, read abstract math textbooks for fun...and then there's me.

The professors were also the smartest and most passionate people I had ever met. Their expertise on their subjects dumbfounds me how people can know so much on such complex topics. The professors also had a gift of knowing how to instill that knowledge into students and understanding the student's perspective to help them solve the problem.

One of my most memorable experiences was when a professor aided me in understanding a problem not by telling me the answer, but by asking me questions that I knew the answers to that helped me connect the dots and get the solution by myself. It was very empowering and just shows how well the professors are able to nurture students and guide them on their engineering journey.