Water Tower

I woke up at 12:30 AM today to finish up a water tower that my team and I built for my structural design class. We spent a good amount of time putting this together. I ended up taking it home today and reinforced the joints with wood glue. While I took the time to do this I realized how great engineers are. Throughout this whole project we were given some basic requirements, a limited supply of materials to choose from, and our minds to help design this water tower. I took a good look at our tower and thought it was really simple, unique, and sexy.

I'm going to rant for a little bit because I've been very frustrated over the past weekend. UCSD is one of the only schools in this country that is accredited for structural engineering. It certainly feels good to be in one of the top schools for your major. Engineering itself is very challenging. Majoring in engineering makes me appear really smart, but I'm not because I'm not a master at what I do. I feel as though I'm not allowing myself to learn. One thing I find important in the college experience is being in an environment where there is room for the individual to grow in every aspect possible. When one is allowed to grow there is this path that opens up. You start to have an idea of what you'd like to do after you get your degree. I would like to be at this level eventually. Enough for now.




Until next time...


kudos,
Jeff