Written by Madison Ray

This week’s student in the #HCSS spotlight is senior Electrical Engineering and French major, Sophie Soueid from Arlington, Texas! As President of La Société Francophone, Treasurer of Pi Delta Phi, Vice President of Tau Beta Pi, President of Eta Kappa Nu, and President of Phi Sigma Iota, Soueid is a highly involved UTA student. We sat down with her to find out more about her experience at UTA.

Sophie Soueid poses outside College Hall. Photo Credit: Madison Ray

MR: Tell me about your experience with your major(s).

SS: So I came into UTA knowing that I wanted to do both of them, and over my time here…my French [major] became a lot more, like, involved earlier on. So, I was taking the courses of course, but like, I felt kind of intertwined with the community and the professors and stuff. For the Electrical Engineering, that didn’t happen as soon as the French, so I kind of started out just taking my classes and not really being involved… With help of the Honors College contracts I’ve done, I’ve become more acquainted with my fellow peers, my professors, those in the administration for the department. So I’ve just become more involved and when it was previously kind of distant, it’s become more connected.

MR: What do you want to do after you graduate?

SS: After I graduate, I hope to be involved in some sort of engineering firm, specifically in electrical engineering. I like embedded processors. But since I’m also taking French, I kind of want to use that in order to expand on the globalization of engineering knowledge.

MR: Tell me about your experience in the Honors College.

SS: From the very start of the semester, I’ve been kind of on track with everything I’ve done. And like I mentioned earlier, being in the Honors College has made me kind of come out of my shell. At the start, I didn’t know how to approach all of my professors…about letters of recommendation or just general opportunities. And since I had to approach them to ask for the Honors College contract and for other resources, I’ve been able to become more acquainted with them and I feel a lot better now trying to talk to them about things beyond just the classroom. So like, employment opportunities, even—I now work for the electrical engineering department, I’m a teaching assistant for one of my old professors. The Honors College has really opened up doors for me. It happened in ways that the doors…were unlocked, and I had to push them open, so it was a little guiding.