Welcome to My Network

At this moment, I am pretty invested in studying Civil Engineering and it is a definite path of inquiry, but I have also had a passion for helping people in emergency medical situations. I also have an interest in psychology, so here is the list of people I want in my network for collaboration and conversations:

1. Matt Berumen: Architectural Engineering
2. Angel Vega: Paramedic
3. Tiana Mcmann: Travel Journalism
4. Shane Cheverez: Physiological affects of doing certain activities
5. Alfredo Medina: Renewable Resources and Engineering
6. Jorge Garcia: Time Management
7. Gabi Pereverziev: Human Compassion

Welcome to the Interdisciplinary

Everything has its certain degree of disciplines, for sports it could be staying motivated, for a police officer keeping a cool head, and for Civil Engineers, a whole host of disciplines. Most of the work is done in an indoor office environment with the occasional visits to job sites. Being stuck in an office for most the day with people you might not even like, this takes people skills and learning to work with a team. It is tedious work, having to make sure every minute detail is in order because one mistake can create massive problems financially and the endangering of lives later on. It is rewarding because you get to see your creations come to life; from idea to object. You also but teach yourself to never give up, there is a solution to every problem, it's just a matter of finding it. Thats the beauty of this field; that everything is based upon simple fundamentals so it pays to have a good base of the simple things. The most important discipline of all, is to love what you do and do what is right. If you genuinely enjoy what you do, the success will come along in the pursuit of being the best you can be.

Resources: 1

Looking up Civil Engineering on Google wasn't quite enough to find the information i needed, so i just looked up different aspects of the career such as education and daily life. I got directed to different websites such as the Bureau of Labor statistics and the Cal Poly website and even a personal blog post describing the daily life. What my research suggests as to where i should look next is the future outlook of the career and also how i can incorporate other passions as hobbies to fit into my daily life (as if i landed a job in the far future).

Launch Pad

Before my time in Preston's class, I hadn't really given my future much thought, which only is hurting me now as I am entering a strange new world of actual choice and freedom to think those crazy thoughts. I still don't have a definite set plan for what I want to do in the future, but that is a beautiful thing. I have the freedom to dream again, to have a crazy idea, research it, get shot down, and go after it again. During my time here, I have found some sort of direction, and currently I'm torn between two ideas. One supported by passion and one supported by future financial stability, but the best thing is is that I could combine the two. I love to travel and document them with pictures and I also love animals, so I had the idea of being a nature photographer but try to specialize in taking pictures of endangered animals in their natural habitat. The only thing is that to get quality pictures, it takes good equipment which can be expensive and travel fees which are ridiculous so I came to the conclusion that this is a hobby. My other idea was Civil Engineering. It is in demand, pays well, and I can still travel with the Engineers Without Borders program that unites many workers from many nations to help those less fortunate around the world. How can I use tools from this class? Social networking will play a huge part in developing a profile for my photos and for collaborating with engineers abroad. I have been researching these for the past week so I do need to go into them more into depth. These two ideas can be promising when used together, or even by themselves. I would like collaboration with fellow students or anyone with a similar idea.