My name is Tucker Sherrill and I am a senior this year. I am
majoring in Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering/Premed. As
far as school goes, I am an engineering mentor which means that I help the
underclassmen engineering students with homework and general tips and advice to
help make their semesters go by easier. I am also a member of the
university's men's lacrosse team, where I play midfield.
Picture of lacrosse sticks
Outside of school and lacrosse, I enjoying
spending as much time outside as possible.
I love to play disk golf, go longboarding or fishing, and hang out by
the pool. Up in the mountains is my
favorite place to be, and I recently took a two week backpacking trip through
the collegiate peaks near Buena Vista, Colorado. During that trip I climbed to the summit of
three different mountain peeks, all of which stand over 14,000 feet tall; Mt
Elbert, Mt Harvard, and Mt Colombia. Aside from backpacking, I also love to go
snowboarding and mountain biking.
I spent this summer in Houston, Texas where I am originally from for an internship with National Oilwell Varco (NOV) in the
research and development facility for the pressure control group, where I
helped design and test new blow out preventers.
Once I graduate this coming May, my dream would be to move to Denver,
Colorado so that I can stay close to the mountains. I will most likely end up back in Houston
though either working for an oil and gas company or for a chemical
company. I would also like to eventually
end up working as a biomedical engineer in the medical field, working in tissue
synthesis and biomedicines.
I have one sister that I am very close with who just started her
freshman year at Texas A&M University, and I have two dogs, both
cockerspaniels. I love getting to go home to see my parents and sister whenever possible, though it does not get to happen as much as I would like. They are everything to me and I would do anything for them.
