Washington University in St.Louis

I do not expect such a great time in St.Louis, just hoping I can recover from my failure last year and go through it smoothly. St.Louis is a city that you always have a passion in exploring and end with sort of disappointment, merely in name of St.Louis.

Washington University is a classical and prestigious school for me to judge at first sight--huge, old building, and a good outline of campus. The reason for being there on New year eve is because I went to an intensive engineering program (I will elaborate it later) in WU and I just hope to figure out whether engineering is a suitable field for me to go further in terms of my furture career and my path to success. In general, I like this program, the class, the professor and the electrical circuit thing, not because I have learned part of the knowledge in high school but I feel satisfied with being smart in class. I know it sounds silly.

This program is called J-Term(January Intensive Term). J-term offers an opportunity for undergraduate who are interested in engeering to explore indtroductory engineering courses in special 11-day intensive format.It is also a chance of getting a head start at buidling connections and community before enrolling as Dual Degree engineering students. Students will stay in hotel and the program will have transportation to send in and drive back. The courses include CSE 200(Engineering and Scientific Computing) or ESE230(Introdution to Electrical&Electronic Circuits) and it depends on the class which one to take. Here is a link:
http://engineering.wustl.edu/dualdegreejterm

Honestly, I enjoyed this program a lot in general, most because of the people who I was taking course with. All of us are from different colleges and we are very special and unique individuals--It is funny how we get along well with each other for me to think regarding psychology side.

In addition, at some point, I give myself enough time to think about what I will do in the near future, where I want to go and what to achieve. Life is tough but we should not rush ourselves by others' doing, thinking and judjing. Have we ever thought about that this life is ours and no one can take it in personal?

Washington University in St.Louis and St.Louis. End of story.

Empty City: St.Louis

I came here after this year of Chrismas and at first, I was amazed by the shining beautiful night scene of St.louis. I was so ready and exicted to explore this city the day after Chrismas and I took the metro train, which has only three carriages and two lines through this city(Blue and Red)--we can definitely tell what a small city it is. Why am I called this city is EMPTY? Because that morning, I was the only one walking at its downtown! There were no other people and few cars chasing. It is like everyone just  moves out from this city and there must be some disastrous happening going on, anyway, I was freaked.

St.Louis was founded in 1974 south of the confuence of Missouri and Mississippi rivers.  The city became part of the Spanish Empire after the French were defeated in the Seven Years' War. In 1800, the land was secretly transferred back to France, whose leader, Napoleon Bonaparte, sold it to the United States in 1803. Also, nicknamed "Gateway to the West" for its role in the westward expansion of US. It is famous for the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial--the arch. Surely, the St.Louis Cardinals, one of the most sucessful major league Baseball teams, make their home at Busch Stadium.

People are all around in the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial, which is underground the square arch thing. I got a tour of this museum and it mainly exhibits the presidents in the 1800s and the details of Lewis and Clark Expedition(1803-1806).

The expedition team was headed by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and the expedition's goal was to gain an accurate sense of the resources being exchanged in the Louisiana Purchase. This expedition starts from St.Louis and ends in the Oregon. I feel honored to see these hardships and difficuties from the expedition--the cruel environment, the long-term food-planning and all the unexpeted situations.

After my lonely exploration at downtown St.Louis, I took the metrolink back to the hotel and went shopping for sure--big season sale. Why not. St.Louis is still to be continued...