Tip:
Highlight text to annotate it
X
I've been to twenty six countries and I could not compare
them. I love learning about a new culture, a new place other than my own. I
think the language really intrigues me. My mom was a travel agent
and she, when I was little, told me stories about going to Hong Kong and to China
and to all over the world, and I think I want to be like that.
I chose to come to U.R.I. because of the combination of the Centennial Scholarship
which awarded me a full ride here, and the International Engineering Program.
It gave me a chance to balance my love of Science and of Arts.
I've been an Engineer in four countries, and each experience has been completely
different. In the U.S., I've worked as an Engineer through internships
and through school. In Germany, I did research and study as well as
an internship for Bayer. In Puerto Rico, I worked as a traffic intern at their
University, I went to Guatemala to work on a volunteer Engineering project with one of
the professors here at U.R.I., Dr. Vinka Craver. It was a small team
of us, and we went down with the goal of making a bio-digester on a farm
they had there. And a bio-digester will take the animal waste
and create methane gas, which is desperately needed as a fuel source there due to
logging problems and deforestation in the area. I mean I
always wanted to help people, and a doctor
is the most traditional route for helping people, but I am absolutely afraid of blood.
So, that was not the case for me, and I figured that through
Civil Engineering, I was able to help people in a different way.
The International Engineering Program really attracted me to this campus.
It's a complete balance between Engineering and a Science and Math side that I liked,
but also Arts, and Language, and I guess, adventure.
And this combination is really what drew me here
and now that I've been through it and done the internship and done the study abroad,
I cannot say any bad words about it.
I had a great time, and I did find the adventure that I was looking for.