"Hello World"

It's a pleasure to meet you. My name is Joshua. As of this post, I am a freshman at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As a member of the Engineering Visionary Scholars Program (EVS), I would like to welcome you, dear reader, to this blog. The members of this program, along with myself, have started this blog as a way to reach out to prospective students from a different angle than what is normal. Where brochures of our University and others may impress (or intimidate) you when it comes to college, we seek to reassure you about student life as it applies here. Then again, where stories told of our notable alumni make success in college seem a common, simple deal, we aim to prepare you for the rude awakening in which you discover that college IS STILL SCHOOL, AND IT'S HARDER!!!

Ahem... Anyway, I should probably introduce myself a bit more thoroughly. I am an Electrical Engineering student. I am involved in the UIUC Chapter for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship. My hobbies & interests include martial arts, web-surfing, music, manga/anime, Japanese culture, theology, philosophy, cars, investigating future technologies, video games, weapons, humor (but, then again, who doesn't like what they find humorous ~ zing!), racket sports, and volleyball. I am the son of a Guatemalan mestizo father and a (primarily) Scots/Irish descended mother. I came from a town called Wheaton, IL. I tend to be quiet (which doesn't show on the internet, as you can see), reserved, and adaptable if something is required of me. On the enneagram, my attributes are mostly 1, 5, and 9. My personality colors are just about evenly split between blue and green. My goal in life is to take part in an engineering project that helps save and preserve the environment on a globally impactive scale. My means shall be through specializing in Power Engineering; from there I can learn how to incorporate systems that generate electricity from renewable energy sources and/or help enable the automotive industry to develop entirely clean electric vehicles.
So, now I've spoken too much, but, rest assured, future posts will involve more about college than me.