Growing up in Colorado Springs, at the foot of the Rocky Mountains, Mikayla Britsch was encouraged to care deeply about the area's natural resources and the people who lived there. She followed the news from a young age, as did her parents, who were vocal about current events and worked in 'people-centric' positions that served members of the public. Britsch knew that she, too, wanted her work to be socially driven. Living in an extremely car-oriented city, she became interested in public transportation. At MIT, she decided to follow the path of her grandfather, a civil engineer, and majored in civil and environmental engineering, with a minor in Spanish. 'Being a civil engineer is a career but also a vocation, a calling to use math and science to solve societal problems and help or improve communities,' Britsch says. 'It calls on you to be in constant dialogue with others. No one can work in civil engineering alone; you work with colleagues, transportation planners, architects,...
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