My name is Evan Wulf. I am a freshman enlisted in English 106 at Purdue University. I am currently enrolled in the school of Science here, but I am trying to switch my major to Engineering, where I can hopefully receive a degree in Mechanical Engineering. With this, I will hopefully achieve my dream career as a roller coaster designer. I’ve enjoyed riding roller coasters from before birth and always since. I love watching them dive and twist and turn, and I often photograph them. I’m also very mathematically inclined. My adequate writing and linguistic abilities are superseded favorably by math, science, and logic. I believe engineering is my perfect mix of logic and reasoning combined with my desire to create.
However, there are two sides to this coin.
Though logic and design run through my head and my heart, music flows through my veins. I have been performing, composing, and appreciating music most of my life, and it is my utensil for creativity. It is a magnificent form of universal communication that speaks differently to every soul. It’s passion in its rawest kind, and one can harness this power through expression, emotion, and articulation. Were I to have a change of heart in my life’s work, I would become a professional performer or more likely a professional composer of music.
Deciding between my two passions has been excruciating to this day and it will continue to be until the time finally comes. In the meanwhile, I have chosen to use the tearing between the two halves of myself to inspire my topic and work of my thesis in this class. It may be highly probable that this is a rare occurrence in which I will be able to use both sides of my coin to further my success, allowing me to overlook for an instant the inevitability of flipping it.
