Career Video Surprises

I watched a video about environmental engineering and one thing that surprised me about that job is that I will work with clients to make sure they comply with regulations and may be stationed at work sites that are cleaning up hazardous waste. Another thing that surprised me was depending on your specialization, that decides how much you are indoors versus outdoors, how much paperwork you do and many other things. Environmental engineers are involved in recycling, waste disposal and public health issues.

I also watched a video about environmental scientists and specialists. Environmental scientists and specialists investigate what is polluting the environment and try to solve the problem. Some environmental scientists require 5 years of training after getting a bachelors degree. Environmental scientists are sometimes asked by the government and state legislature for advice on regulations involving the environment.

The Civil engineering video explained a lot. Civil engineering combines: science, engineering, economics, physics, geology, and hydraulics. Hydraulics specialist focus on flood prevention. Civil engineers work on projects that improve the lives of society.

Career and Education Research

My plan for the future is to get a Civil Engineering degree with a specialization in Environmental Engineering from the University of Michigan. My hopes for a career with that degree is an environmental engineer or environmentalist. My work ethics survey didn't really guide me to any one career. I pretty much knew what I wanted to do and the survey just told me what skills I had. My career cluster did match what I want to do, especially since I had a three-way tie. I was bound to go into one of the clusters! The main selling point of the career I want to go into is that I can get a degree to do that job from a college in Michigan. I didn't really want to go out of state. It just costs more and Michigan has good colleges. I chose the University of Michigan because it seemed to have a more developed CEE (Civil and Environmental Engineering) program. University of Wisconsin was smaller and it was also out of state. Honestly, I do see myself in the scenario I have created. I do see myself graduating from the University of Michigan and getting a job with my CEE degree. I think that it is a very possible outcome of the next stage of my life.

My Movie Project!

My favorite part of the Movie Maker project was doing the voice-overs, even though it was kind of embarassing it made the movie more "interactive" in my opinion.

My favorite part of the movie itself were my pictures that were edited pictures, the ones I added effects and text to online.

The most challenging part of making my movie was the saving process. I've worked with movie maker since sixth grade, but it just was being stubborn. It seemed like my folders were eating my movie file. So the most challenging part was finding my saved movie.

If i could change something about my project it would be to use more voice-overs. As much as I dislike doing them in the first place, they help out. With the book that I did, I know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly, it was very repetitive and the voice-overs were helpful instead of having massive amounts of text on the screen.

Overall, I liked the project, I think it would've been more fun if we had either made up our own story or did it on a subject that we knew a lot about. That may have alleviated some of the stress and complications from the project. All in all, it was fun and educational.