Back from a Break and Moving Forward
By: Randy M.
Tags: Civil Engineering, Summer, Updates, Summer Classes, Engineering

I haven’t posted on Medium in a while. I wasn’t planning on fully abandoning Medium as I still have things I want to talk about regarding civil engineering topics and other interests of mine. I honestly just needed a break from looking at any social media or really posting anything at all. However, I’m back to hopefully posting at least once a week on Fridays.

The main thing that’s changed for me has been summer school. I can easily say that I wasn’t expecting for a summer school class to be so intense. I’m taking Honors World Thought at UNLV. Based off of how the world is going right now, the class mainly winds up being a discussion on what’s going on in society currently. That’s probably the main reason why I haven’t been spending much time on posting or any social media really. I can already plan on hearing it in my class or brought up by my other family members.

With this downtime I’m finding things to do to keep my mind going beyond that of the summer class that I’m taking. I’m currently looking up on how I can possibly building my own computer tower, thanks to a friend of mine recommending several sites to get started. I just found out that nearly all of my classes will be going remote learning. My Chromebook that I’m using right now just isn’t cutting it, and with possibly needing Civil 3D or Matlab, likely going to be needed. Other than possibly building computers, I’m relearning how to drive properly. I’ll be taking my driver’s licence test this week after waiting to get one for around sixteen years since first time watching Hotwheels Highway 35 (one of my favorite movies still as a nineteen year old). I’ve been making sure to constantly look over my shoulder on every turn and that I can actually park straight. I’m also learning some musical instruments. Although, my parents were slightly confused because they thought they hid my recorder deep enough for me not to find it. Yet, here I am learning “My Heart Will Go On” by Celine Dion with so much skill sometimes my dog can’t handle this skill and has to leave the room.

Lastly, I had the idea recently that every other week, starting next week, I would start posting about how other sciences are getting incorporated into civil engineering. There’s a lot of different civil engineering ideas right now that haven’t gotten all of the attention that I think they deserve. Any type of engineering has to incorporate some other type of science or engineering, whether it be civil engineering and geology or mechanical engineering and electrical engineering, in order to create brand new ideas that aid everyday life. I do think that it’s great to promote the city planning that goes on in civil engineering in the past, but the research aspect of civil engineering seems to be unrepresented. I honestly had no clue that there was research being done for civil engineering until I got a post on my UNLV Career Services about an opportunity for research for a civil engineering teacher. I think it’s going to be a great opportunity to post things that aren’t normally posted on, as well as my own personal research to learn more about civil engineering.

So that’s pretty much it. Next week, I’ll be posting about a focus on a science field relating to civil engineering. Most likely it will be regarding how the phycology and civil engineering fields can and have worked together.

Wishing all of you readers the safety in these hard times. Thank you and God bless!

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