Choosing NC State
J. Robert Cooke talks about realizing an interest in agricultural engineering while in high school and deciding to enroll in the program at NC State.
Interview on 2011-08-22 00:00:00 -0400
Transcript
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Actually it was a pretty easy choice. I applied at several places-as I would suggest anyone applying to have a few options
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applied and was admitted at Davidson but even with the financial aid it was still far less expensive to come to NC State.
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But I had been a student in the vocational agriculture program and the Future Farmers of America and if you have worked
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on the farm it's not a great leap of imagination to understand building machinery that reduces the amount of drudgery.
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It's fairly easy to comprehend. So even in high school, by the time I was a junior, I had settled on agricultural engineering
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at NC State, and it's been a marvelous, marvelous choice.
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