Sunday, November 13, 2011

GELC and I

Before I arrived at Purdue, I was apprehensive about being in this Global Engineering Learning Community. I didn't know exactly what to expect, mostly because no one could tell me what I might experience. Over the last 12 weeks however, I have grown to enjoy my time in the classroom and out of it with GELC. 

The community has provided me the opportunity to be informed about the engineering cultures and practices of many regions of the world and has shown me that I don't know nearly enough about any one of them. i enjoyed the presentations on the European and Middle Eastern regions the most. European because I aspire to visit Germany and Italy some day to study, or for a project or just for tourism and it gave me an idea of what I might expect. Middle Eastern because although that's not where I'm from, it is a region where I have lived for most of my life and it was interesting to see what other people had to say about the region.

Over the course of this semester I'm sure I have retained countless other lessons from GELC that will help me in a major way with the rest of my engineering education.

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  1. After thinking over this, I have concluded that I have had much the same experience as you, NotTyler. When I was choosing learning communities, I wasn't really sure what they were all about, what we would do in them, and how they would benefit us. In truth, I was even skeptical of this class - Engineering 103 - itself, because I wasn't sure what purpose it would serve in my education. But over the last couple of months, I have come to realize that enrolling in the Global Engineering Learning community is one of the best decisions I have made as a college student. Not only does the community give me a common group of people to study with, but also provides me with a lot of information about foreign countries, which I absolutely love. Moreover, I plan to study abroad sometime during college, and the global engineering learning community has provided me with a lot of information about Purdue's study abroad programs.

    #ENGR103

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