{"id":51097,"date":"2023-05-25T16:48:25","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T20:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/?p=51097"},"modified":"2023-06-23T14:09:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:09:26","slug":"sisters-pursue-their-masters-together-at-the-wilson-college-of-textiles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2023\/05\/sisters-pursue-their-masters-together-at-the-wilson-college-of-textiles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sisters Pursue Their Master\u2019s Together at the Wilson College of Textiles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Elyse Boldizar<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sisters Emily and Laura Potok have always been close, but neither of them imagined they would end up pursuing the same field. After individually earning different dual-enrollment undergraduate degrees at NC State University and Meredith College, the sisters find themselves together again at the Wilson College of Textiles pursuing a master\u2019s in textile engineering<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Laura Potok, who is younger by three years, has always had an interest in clothing. But it was not until watching her older sister pursue an engineering degree at NC State that she seriously considered textile engineering as a viable major.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEmily was applying to colleges when I was in my first year of high school,\u201d Laura Potok says. \u201cShe was looking into biomedical engineering and honestly, in ninth grade, I didn’t even know what that really meant. But she inspired me to look more into engineering. As I started looking at possible majors, I learned about textile engineering. The more I learned about it, the more I realized it was what I wanted to do.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Both sisters ended up double-majoring through NC State\u2019s dual-enrollment program with Meredith College. Laura Potok earned her undergraduate degrees in textile engineering<\/a> at the Wilson College and chemistry at Meredith. Emily Potok studied biomedical engineering at NC State and mathematics at Meredith. <\/p>\n\n\n\nDiffering paths to the Wilson College<\/h3>\n\n\n\n