Wow this dam was huge! I've been to a few dams in my life but this one amazed me just how it was built. It retained such a massive amount of water and it was built in a canyon! When we crossed the dam we got out to walk out onto the bridge in front of it and take pictures of the scenery (this picture is before crossing the bridge). As we walked out onto the bridge giant trucks were crossing, making the bridge shake and tremble under the weight of the trucks. I found this very exciting. As for my wife, not so much. I loved the design and human ingenious that went into the construction of the dam and bridge. Humans never give up one things. Well, individually we do but as a whole we keep trying until we complete magnificent feats such as this dam. I love that about our race. I love figuring things out and trying different ways to complete a task until it is done correctly. I don't believe anything is impossible and even if some things are I like to think that if I try hard enough I can make anything happen. This is one of the reasons that I chose Mechanical Engineering as a major. As engineers we work under set laws of physics and we use logical math to design all we produce. Although we follow strict laws we still believe that there are new ways to do everything that will improve the world. I love the idea of improving things. If I have a product I want to make it better. This is a natural human instinct to want to improve and I think it comes from before this life. We have wanted to, do want to and will want to improve forever. We are only in danger in this life when we think that we have "arrived" in any category of our life. We must always strive to improve and progress in everything that we can.
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