I am a sophomore engineering student at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Im originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. I graduated from Branson high school in Ross, California\u00a0in 2012. “My hobby is hobbies”\u00a0– Zakkai Davidson I recently heard the quote above and immediately connected with it. I absolutely love\u00a0learning by doing, and this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/84\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"700_6900\"](\"http:\/\/www.428industries.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/700_6900.jpg\")
<\/a>I recently heard the quote above and immediately connected with it. I absolutely love\u00a0learning by doing, and this is actually how I choose most of\u00a0my\u00a0projects. I pick a skill I don’t have, like knitting for instance, and then I pick a project that will force me to learn that skill, like making a hat. Of course I’m not going to crank out a perfect product the first time around, or even the tenth time.\u00a0But,\u00a0I learn so much in the process\u00a0when Im forced to do\u00a0a task I’m sort of clueless about, that I think I’ve\u00a0become addicted to this process. Saying\u00a0‘my hobby is hobbies’ nicely sums up this trait.<\/p>\n<\/a>Over the years, I’ve managed to accumulate a number of these hobbies and skills. What started with legos and a simple desire to create has\u00a0slowly snowballed into increasingly elaborate and ambitious projects. Glue-together plastic models, soldering kits, and weaving projects progressed to custom fabricated RC submarines, hovercrafts, gatling gun potato cannons, hand-crafted furniture for nearly every room in our house, and a number of other crazy projects; some useful, some not; some successful, some not. However the outcome, though, I always learn\u00a0a ton.<\/p>\n<\/a>
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