It’s been quite the junior year! This year marks my best and yet hardest year of my time here at Syracuse University. Through all the hard work and busy days I have been rewarded with the great honor of representing Syracuse University as a one of six engineers on a journey to Dubai to collaborate, learn, and experience a civil engineering internship. An opportunity of a lifetime!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Day 12 - Slow Day

This morning we continued on cost estimating and pricing. After yet another mediocre lunch, we were given our final assignment. At the end of the program we are required to submit a technical report on all the job sites we will be visiting. After our project briefing we were given some time to start our reports and get a good feel of what will be expected of us.
Home for a workout and lounging by the pool with Mike, Katelyn, Rodregue, and Anthony. For dinner cooked up some eggs and toast topped with tomato marinara. Some may think it’s kinda gross but I like it! Haha. Ultimately, a low key day, but still loving my time in Dubai. Thanks for following, missing those at home, Sean


Here is a fun picture to enjoy because I didn't take any today.
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  1. DonaldMay 27, 2011 at 4:54 PM

    Hey Sean,

    Fun picture! A crocodile would have been a nice add.

    Slow Day? How can that be? Downtime in Dubai – that’s like an expression caught somewhere between an oxymoron and blasphemy. I thought that Dubai was the Pearl of the Middle East that Never Sleeps.

    I’m guessing that the hanging rope bridge you’re on is at the Rainforest Café at the Dubai Mall. It doesn’t look quite as rickety as the one in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. Assuming Dubai has everything, did you find any of the long lost Shankara Stones? Mola Ram, Suda Ram. Fortune and Glory, Dr. Jones. Haha.

    I’m guessing that the Rainforest Café and the greater Dubai don’t have a rope bridge like the Hanging Bridge of Ghasa in Nepal capable of accommodating your personal herd of yaks: http://www.oobject.com/rope-bridges-from-around-the-world/hanging-bridge-of-ghasa-in-nepal/6818/

    So, you have a few technical reports for the sites you visited. I’d be interested to know what comprises a technical report for a construction site. I’m fairly certain that there would be an income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement embedded in the report somewhere. If the financials don’t work, no amount of engineer-architect camaraderie will get the building constructed. I am wondering if DCC will be able to use the reports – that would be cool to be a valued-added part of the process.

    I look forward to hearing about your travels to the Gulf of Oman. When is sand storm season? It might be helpful to have those double eye lids like the dromedaries and the Vulcans (from Star Trek). Enjoy your travels. Don’t pick up any hitchhikers unless they are wealth sheiks or a lost harem needing a ride back to town. Happy travels.

    My love,

    Dad

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