How Would You Contribute In Your Counrty As An Engineer

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The rain drops on the windshield wake me up. I sit up and look out the window. Water currents taking along garbage and gasoline rainbows, the cars looking for another way to get by, and the small zinc houses along the road vanish as the current passes by. Everything in its path disappears as it gains speed down hill until the current makes it’s last stop, the lake. And as if the currents were not strong enough to tear down, mudslides accompany. The day keeps on getting worst to sort out as just another ordinary rainy day in Nicaragua.
We all watch as this calamity gets out of hands, but we all think to ourselves, whose hands has it gotten out of, Where are our so-called artists of the practical, our engineers to manage these kind of catastrophic situations. We suffer from a dire economy which is an excuse to this situation but not to this cataclysm that could be manageable. I’m looking out the window and daydream about that moment when I will make a step towards the good of my country. The moment when I as an engineer will be able to contribute to avoid such situations. I vision a Nicaragua that could be and not the one that I live in. A vision of a Nicaragua that is much developed and made use of it’s resources, a well-built sewage canal and a uncontaminated Lake that is very well enhanced, a Nicaragua in where I will make a difference....