I love you wherever you go. 

I love you beyond description. 

I love you no matter what. 

I love you and your family. 

I love you far beyond all others. 

I love you to the extent that my entire life is yours. 

I love you even in death. 

I love you through it all. 

I love you. 

Ruth 1:16-17:
But Ruth said, “Do not urge me to leave you or to return from following you. For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people, and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. May the Lord do so to me and more also if anything but death parts me from you.

I love you.

-Dad

These bones are wearing down.
They are growing more tired.
With less and less time. 

To be eighteen again would be, something.
Staying out to do as you wish.
Little notion of time.

Late nights and early mornings come for years.
Even they do not last long. 

My body is tired but my hope grows stronger day by day.
I love and serve and hope and pray.
Come what may I focus on Christ and him alone. 

I long to see the substance of what I hope for.
The evidence of what I cannot see.
My life, my all, to love and be.

• If you want to go to medical school, get an engineering degree on a pre-med track.
• If you want a job in finance, be an engineering major, with a minor in economics or finance, or maybe even a double major.
• If you want to be a teacher, be an engineering major, with a teaching certificate.
• If you want to be a writer, get an engineering degree and then go write.
• If you want to be an economist, get an engineering degree for your undergrad – and then set off toward graduate school. 

I can think of no better background education than an engineering degree. 

It is also an amazing thing to have to “fall back on.”

Especially when life happens. 

• When medical school turns out to not be what you thought it would.
• When you can’t get a job in finance as easily as you thought.
• When you decide you don’t want to be a teacher.
• When you are not able to get a booking agent.
• Or, when you drop out of grad school and don’t know what the next step should be. 

When I was finishing high school, my dad told me to study engineering, like he did. He got a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering. 

Now I know God has a plan for us all, but sometimes I still wish I had taken his advice. 

I think “pursue what you love” and “follow your passion” is great advice for a career, but horrible advice for choosing an undergraduate degree. 

And remember:

You can be good at more than one thing.

Take 4 years while you are young and add “engineer” to your skill-set list. 

I will never pressure you in your vocation.

But maybe I should in your education? 

Quite simply:

Get a degree in engineering. 

I love you.