Why Civil Engineering?

I am currently doing 2nd year of civil engineering at Sydney University. Although it is my second year here, but sometimes I still wondering the reasons I am doing civil engineering instead of any other courses. As many other people, I am a fickle minded person when it comes to making decision in several things, the very first thing is studies.

If I am ask what is the course or career I most interested in, I would say anything to do with biology. I used to dream of becoming a doctor since I was very very young.. may be since I was in kindergarten. My dreams kept alive till I finished my form 5, before I enrolled myself in Taylor’s College. All the time my result wasn’t too bad yet not very good as well, I would say this is the most headache problem… not too good not too bad.. stuck in the middle. And because of that I dare not enrolled to a bio class; everyone knows, for medicine, you must be really good to get enrolled. So I picked those so called ‘flexible’ subjects in my foundation year which suited me the most while I am quite uncertain what profession to study in uni. According to the counsellor that attended me, with those ‘flexible’ subjects I can apply for any kind of courses, medicine, engineering, law, business or economics etc. I doubted that for so long.. never heard of that so called ‘flexible’ subjects before. Anyway, because of my uncertainty, I chose to trust her…

When it is time to fill in the application form for university, I suffered again. What should I fill in? I knew I can never get a medicine offer from any university with those ‘so so’ results. Pharmacy is not a bad idea but my result is at the fringe of the requirement. Dangerous… Shit… stuck in the middle again. Law? No way. My language fluency and ability say no. Business, finance, IT, accounting or economics? Er… not interested. But I know these are the professions most wanted everywhere on earth. But still, I am not interested wor. Music? Tough question. I love music so much but couldn’t convince my parents to allow me to do that. Some say cannot make big money as well. Whatever… What I want then? I don’t know. I then seek for suggestions from my parents. They asked me to consider engineering. Well, engineering… not bad… sounds interesting… but what engineering? The first thing came to my mind was civil engineering. I thought it is quite good in a way that Malaysia is still a developing country and needs this kind of profession. So, I made up my decision and go for civil engineering, bravely.

Here I am!!! In the second year of my degree. Loving it and enjoying it. I’ll be a civil engineer in a few years time. Perhaps, that’s why I ‘chose’ civil engineering…