You should work in a lab or machine shop, for pretty much the same reasons you give for learning to program. Those skills tend to be under-emphasized in the undergraduate curriculum compared to how useful they are in the real world, so you’ll have to seek out opportunities on your own. But if you do, that means you’ll be rare and valuable.
You should work in a lab or machine shop, for pretty much the same reasons you give for learning to program. Those skills tend to be under-emphasized in the undergraduate curriculum compared to how useful they are in the real world, so you’ll have to seek out opportunities on your own. But if you do, that means you’ll be rare and valuable.