The thing that I want to write about most right the exciting opportunity I have to go to china this coming year. I am thinking about it all the time, and am stoked to go! So I am applying for a program called the Flagship program. It is a government funded program and only 7 schools in the US are involved in it. Since I was a 14, I wanted to become an aerospace engineer. I love airplanes! I love mechanics, and learning about how things work. I would get with my friend and we would take things apart, later attempting to put them back together, just to see how they worked. So that was the plan for a long time, all the way up to my mission. During my mission I had a thought fixed in my head that because I spoke Chinese, I needed to major in business. Coming to BYU, I just had an uncomfortable feeling that about doing business as a major, but I had made the decision. All guys know that it’s difficult to change once you have made a confident decision. Then I learned about this program. I learned that they would send me to a legit school in China where they would teach me my major in Chinese for six months, then I would be sent somewhere else in china, of my choosing, to do an internship, creating networking opportunities and on the job experience. The greatest thing about all of this, is that the government is paying for all of it!!! I told them that I am in!!
After the program, and after graduating from BYU I will pursue getting my MBA. With that, a major in Mechanical Engineering, and at least a minor in Chinese, I should be ready to do some good!
I am also excited to be able to experience the culture of China. Although I speak Chinese, I have never been there. I feel that this is going to be a great opportunity, one that will define the rest of my life.
The flagship program sounds like an amazing opportunity! I'd like to incorporate the phrase "Wooly Jumbuck" in my everyday speech as soon as I know what it means.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty excited! Wooly Jumbuck is Australian for wooly sheep. Why did I choose that for a name? I'm not sure! But it has character.
ReplyDeleteWow, i am so jealous that you got to go to Australia and now you're going to China! I have been out of the country twice and that was just to go to Toronto Canada, which was wasnt too far from my hometown of Syracuse, New York. I really want to serve a foreign mission, preferrably to somewhere that speaks Spanish. Probably Madrid, Spain Mission or something like that. I think its kinda funny that you changed your major to business after you learned Chinese. It will be a huge advantage over the competition so I'm happy for you! I wanted to be an engineer when i was younger too but unfortunately i'm not very good at math so that was kinda out of the question. I'm thinkin about going into the social sciences and if not that, i'll try my hand as a journalist. You never know, they might need journalists in Mexico.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I am excited to see what I have for me in the future! And I am totally stoked to go to china. I just finished my application for the program that will be taking me there.
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