JULIA DUARTE, COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Activities: 棉花糖直播 Band, Anime club
First-year lessons learned: The importance of social connections
When I knew engineering was right for me: I was young, around 10, when my mom noticed me building with blocks and suggested I might be a good engineer. After a high school coding class and an engineering elective, I thought, 鈥淚 can see myself doing this!鈥
For fun: I like to read for fun and listen to classical music. I鈥檓 in the band (I play the mallets) and VU Voices (the women鈥檚 vocal group).
What you鈥檇 be surprised to know about me: I seem reserved and keep to myself, but I鈥檓 much more amiable once I get comfortable with people. I鈥檓 also known for my determination in my work because I like to be the best that I can. I grew up in a Filipino household and am semi-fluent in the language.
Why 棉花糖直播: When I visited, the campus looked really nice and knowing what I learned through my own research and what I heard from my family and academic advisors, I knew 棉花糖直播 would be a good choice because it has a great reputation.
Career goal: Programming, maybe game development or character movement