You have to know yourself before you can be yourself.

For Clint Martin, that meant taking on the Appalachian Trail thru-hike for nearly six months in the woods before starting his first full-time civil engineering job. He talks about how the experience helped make him a better civil engineer (1:20).

We hear an Origin Story from Vanessa Eslava, a civil engineer in San Diego who gives back to the students of her community (14:45).

And Member Memos asks what civil engineers do to “find themselves” in the right frame of mind for a big project (18:36).

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