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On Turning Twenty - Teddy Warner

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I turned twenty today.

Today I turned twenty. Kind of crazy (or at least feels more substantial than the past few years). Three years ago, I had a long think about what I wanted to do with myself, with my future. I was sitting in my high school’s woodshop after school and had a few hours to kill while watching a CNC machine hum. I loved engineering (and still do). Yet, I couldn’t help but feel as I progressed nearer and nearer to university, the parts of engineering I loved most (tangible building, making, experimenting) would fade away in favor of a more meticulous, tedious commitment to theory. Whatever I was…

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