Why engineering

Sometimes I feel restless with my time. I feel that there's something missing. My mom always tells me that I always have too much energy to spare. I don't really like reading my school notes all the time. I always feel like doing something new with my time. Every time I read my notes, I would always find something new, but I still feel like doing something new. I like the time when I did a 3D modelling project in my secondary school. I stayed up for 3 days and only dozed off while waiting for the rendering. But I felt good. I felt tired but at least I felt like I have released my energy. When I was in junior college, I took up an engineering project. Days and nights writing the report. Days spent after training in the school lab to piece the prototype together.

I want to do engineering because I want to put things together. I want to see things work, rather than just learning on paper. I can be patient doing the prototypes over and over again. But I'm a bit impatient seeing my youth passing by. I want to learn engineering because I want to put what I learn, what I know in to making things, building things as soon as possible. I want to have a project-based study.

Ultimately, that's what I want and can do best to help my country. ... childhood dream ...

streak of insanity ... do what is hardest. How my parents and other people told me how difficult it will be to set up what I want. Vietnam has 2 international patterns out of the total 14 in the whole history. Emphasize that it is not a chauvinistic sentiment.

Especially civil engineering. Planning the dams, roads. Since the planning in Vietnam nowadays seems to exacerbate the damages caused by floods, drought ...

how I like architecture but I want, for undergraduate, the technicalities of the structure ...

From the experience with CREATE: I want to know about stress analysis, amount of wind entering the ventilation holes, the size of drainages needed to prevent flooding, how much water will be blocked by the road. how to make the geodesic dome spring up like a foldable structure. how to reduce the number of different shades needed to make the dome. how much vegetations can be put on a roof.

I left Vietnam at an early age. At that point of time, I never thought about the prospect that I will live overseas for at least another 10 years. Or I never know how I will feel when I have to live overseas for another 10 years. And suddenly the experience swarmed me like a gush of wind, overwhelmed me so much that sometimes I just want to let myself drift. It's so easy not to think and just let things flow its way.

I likes thinking about the reasons. I always want to find the underlying reasons for things that happened. I read books about war, I watched war movies. I tried to take a gleam at what make the people sacrifice, to throw themselves into dire situations for a reason. Sometimes the reason seems so distant, so foreign. Like to save the man next to one.