Well here is just a quick update about how life is going post of the IRES Spain Trip.
First things first, I absolutely miss Spain and the wonderful staff we met at UPV. It was a great and exciting experience that I will cherish forever.
Once I returned to the states, I immediately jumped into studying for the Fundamentals of Engineering exam (FE)...one of the longest exams an engineering student has to take in his/hers engineering career. Fourteen days of nothing but studying, working, and my face buried in a book. Not fun at all. At the end though, it all paid off. I took the exam in early August and passed it! I recently just applied for my EIT application and hope to receive it in the near future.
My last semester of my undergraduate soon started a few weeks after taking the FE, and boy did it feel amazing. Most of my time was spent working on our senior project but overall it went well. Participating in the IRES program helped by having effective communication between the project director and I and taking the initiative whenever the time called for it. We were given a commercial land development project.
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| Senior Project Team: I couldn't have asked for a better team to work with. |
Graduation was a blast! I was very proud of myself and excited to start a whole new chapter of my life. I was able to take a few weeks off after graduation to catch my breath and just relax. I went to Mexico to visit family and to San Antonio, Texas for a small vacation.
I plan to go for my masters at UTA in the fall semester of this year. I'm either going for a masters in transportation engineering or getting an MBA. I'm still deciding. I am however enrolled in the fast track program and technically already in graduate school. Since I applied for the fast track program I already have two classes counted towards my masters, which is nice.
If I haven't mentioned it before, I have been interning at Baird, Hampton, & Brown, Inc. as a civil engineering intern. I am proud to say that I accepted and offer for a full time position there and started this past Monday. They provide a variety of services in mechanical, electrical, civil engineering, and surveying but I work in the civil engineering department. I currently work under other engineers doing land development and trying to gain as much experience as I can. I like what I do and love the company and the people there, which makes it even better.
I feel like the IRES program has helped me become a better student, professional, and person. It has opened my eyes about the different issues going on around the world and to remember to take consideration of the environment as a whole.
Well...that's about it for now.
Til' next time. Hasta luego!
