Are you the de facto IT helpdesk for your friends and family?

Jake Janzen, ME junior

Definitely for my family, even my extended family. They’ve asked me for recommendations on things like an Internet service provider. It’s annoying.

Erica Ludlum, NE Ph.D. student

No, honestly not, because my friends are all engineers so they don’t come to me. And my dad is a computer dork, too.

Dapo Omidiran, EECS Ph.D. student

Yeah! Not only that, my mother wants me to fix the VCR, the plumbing, you name it, even though I’m not an expert or interested in that stuff.

Robert Wang, ME Ph.D. student

No, actually not. I don’t know anything about IT and I have friends who are IT guys so they trump me.

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