I went to Telford College yesterday and applied for the HND Civil Engineering course. Mostly because it’s all they had that looked remotely interesting. I then made my way home asking myself ‘Is that really what I want to do, or did I just apply because it’s there?’
I applied because it’s there. That’s it. Not that I have any *objections* to Civil Engineering at all, nope I do not. I would very happily be a civil engineer. It’s a bloody good and very important job. But
It just isn’t what I want to do. I took a very long time yesterday to sit and figure out exactly what it is that I DO really want to do. That is design and build machines that produce, work with and use renewable energy. Really cool machines, that do amazing and useful stuff. And possible mad killer robots too, because I frickin loved that robot jaguar thing in Transformers 2. Seriously. I want to make one.
Well, maybe not. But she is awesome.
No, my primary goal [other than making renewable energy a serious solution to the growing problem of burning liquified dead dinosaur corpses] is to create vehicles that don’t need fuel, and which work. For more than a few hours at a time. You could say that’s the cyclist in me wanting everything else to be as polluting as my own vehicle.
and I want to make shiny things, because that’s just nice, isn’t it?
So anyway I took a look at the Googles and lo, I discovered that Edinburgh University offer a course on Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy. Absolutely, completely perfect. Could not be more so. The big questions are: can I get on this course? And if so can I possibly find a way to afford it. Because that’s the big block. I don’t have no money, I have -£15,000 money. And Five years of studying is going to make that hole an awful lot deeper.
But I, at this stage in my life, cannot afford not to. It has to be now, or I never will.
And never is no longer an option.
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I went to Telford College yesterday and applied for the HND Civil Engineering course. Mostly because it’s all they had that looked remotely interesting. I then made my way home asking myself ‘Is that really what I want to do, or did I just apply because it’s there?’
I applied because it’s there. That’s it. Not that I have any *objections* to Civil Engineering at all, nope I do not. I would very happily be a civil engineer. It’s a bloody good and very important job. But
It just isn’t what I want to do. I took a very long time yesterday to sit and figure out exactly what it is that I DO really want to do. That is design and build machines that produce, work with and use renewable energy. Really cool machines, that do amazing and useful stuff. And possible mad killer robots too, because I frickin loved that robot jaguar thing in Transformers 2. Seriously. I want to make one.
Well, maybe not. But she is awesome.
No, my primary goal [other than making renewable energy a serious solution to the growing problem of burning liquified dead dinosaur corpses] is to create vehicles that don’t need fuel, and which work. For more than a few hours at a time. You could say that’s the cyclist in me wanting everything else to be as polluting as my own vehicle.
and I want to make shiny things, because that’s just nice, isn’t it?
So anyway I took a look at the Googles and lo, I discovered that Edinburgh University offer a course on Mechanical Engineering with Renewable Energy. Absolutely, completely perfect. Could not be more so. The big questions are: can I get on this course? And if so can I possibly find a way to afford it. Because that’s the big block. I don’t have no money, I have -£15,000 money. And Five years of studying is going to make that hole an awful lot deeper.
But I, at this stage in my life, cannot afford not to. It has to be now, or I never will.
And never is no longer an option.
This entry was posted on Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 1:32 pm and is filed under Comment, Courses, Movies, Personal. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.