When I was in high school, I toured an ethanol plant.
I remember walking through the facility thinking it was the coolest thing I had ever seen.
Huge tanks. Pipes everywhere. Corn turning into fuel through chemistry and engineering.
It felt like magic.
That tour stuck with me. In a lot of ways, it’s what sparked my interest in chemical engineering in the first place.
But somewhere along the way, my idea of what my “dream job” looked like changed.
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