Engineer Your World

yes yes. i'm a very anxious person. less than two years into my program, i'm already being nervous about how the industry would look like. how should i cope. exactly how the corporate people look like. did i even get into the wrong field etc. so, thanks to the ELP tadahhhh i met about a dozen of them last Friday. not just any engineers, most of them are experienced leaders and entrepenaurs, not to mention with titles of Dr Ir etc. For this, i'm thankful for Monash to actually get those elders to mentor us, for a year! this is something you might not even have the chance to get, even if you PAY for it. truly truly a GOLDEN oppurtunity.

anyways, i've met my mentor. and he's awesome! quite young, compare to the other mentors, yet his history is already quite amazing. and most importantly, he's so friendly and willing to share. we met up before the program launching, and he talked to us for a whole hour non stop! he even told us his schedule and already asked us to join him for weekend lunch. Since most of them are leaders of the industry, they must be extremely busy. For them to initiatively make time for us, not waiting for us to make appointment with them, that is something rare. i'd be an idiot to not treasure it.

so what are the mentors for, u'd ask? basically the ELP is a program where we students undertake ourselves. but having mentors is like knowing that someone is watching your back, and there'll always be someone whom you can approach if you need advice of any sort. they are the current leaders, we are of the future. if we can learn from them, at this early stage of life, we could, as quoted from a friend, start ahead and stay ahead.

ya. finally a tiny peek into the working world. the BIG people are also people. not too scary. at least our mentors aren't. and the uni life, has almost nothing similar to the industry. and also, if you are going to be a REAL engineer, life will be as challenging as it could be. life ain't easy. guess i should just bear that in mind.

time to evolve. and this time, there's something else at the back of my head: not only that i will strive hard, i will also make my mentor proud.

til then.

ciao~