A bachelor’s degree in engineering has a lot of power in a highly competitive job market. It is one of the only majors you can graduate with and be virtually guaranteed a job right away. And environmental engineers are in demand everywhere in the world. I was able to choose exactly where I wanted to live—Seattle!

It’s such a versatile field. Engineering is about problem solving, and a good problem solver is useful to many people in a variety of fields, including scientists, architects, economists, and others.

I’m embarrassingly addicted to Sudoku.

B.S. in biological and environmental engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. I started as a biology major, but switched programs to combine engineering with natural sciences and research. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted, but I found it in the end.