Former COT Drafting Student Sends “Thank You” to Mr. Driscoll
Mr. Driscoll, I do not know if you remember me, but my name is Gavin Cote and I took both Drafting I and II with you at the BRCOT between 2008 and 2010. The reason I am emailing you today is to thank you. I am currently a senior at Maine Maritime Academy, I still have one year left as my program takes five years to complete. In the past four years your teaching has aided me tremendously in maintaining a 3.6 GPA in the Marine Systems Engineering program, while playing football and lacrosse, and I am very proud of this (it was a goal I set during a writing assignment in your class). While in classes like drafting, machine tool, computer programming, engineering design, and many others I definitely had a head up on everyone in my class. I even spent a lot of time relaying some of the skills you taught me to them, especially on how to read an orthographic drawing. The most important event that was directly effected by my education at the BRCOT happened just two weeks ago. January 9th marked the fourth and final day of the USCG 3rd Assistant Engineer exams, and I passed with flying colors. It was a week of torture but I felt myself constantly using the basic problem-solving fundamentals you taught me. I cannot explain how grateful I am for the education I received from you, and I cannot thank you enough. From here I will go on to do a Nuclear Engineering internship at the Portsmouth Navy Yard for this summer and complete one more year of school along with a capstone, and I am very excited for the drafting associated with these. I am not positive what I would like to do after that, I am still deciding between continuing to graduate school, shipping out, staying at the Navy Yard, or some combination of those. And again, thank you very much for everything. Regards, Gavin Cote