Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Vee Kuan's 3 Laws of Attitude

As Newton has his 3 laws, Thermodynamics has 3 laws, and Robotics has 3 laws. I have 3 laws that govern my attitude and behaviour.

Law 1: Mens et Manus, translates from latin means mind and hand. As an engineering students, you cannot be just good in papers, holding pens and write out solution. The truth is nobody really care the numbers on the papers most of the time. Engineering students especially mechanical engineering students must have hands on experience. Make things out from your hand, roll up your sleeve, and get them dirty. Mens et Manus is the slogan from MIT and i am truly respect.
In fact, you will learn more from doing. I make circuit boards, cut metals, construct structures, welding, soldering etc. It is hell lot of fun more than writing algebra and numbers. Intuition and artwork is a more complex program.

Law 2: Pledge for dignity and depth of knowledge, many of us study for exams. Pathetic. They only study what lecturers teach till and beyonf that, they simply do not give a damn. Is this the behaviour of learning knowledge. Hell no. Thats the latter part of this law, for the depth of knowledge study more than others, get yourself superior than the ordinary ones. As for dignity, this is what i learn from my statics lecturer, Abdus. An b+ students should be proud of themselves if they had tried their best and get b+ in the end. while, an A student should feel condemned if they get A- without trying their best. Thats dignity, always excel yourselves!!

Law 3: Be aggresive! I was once introduced by my prof as an aggresive student. Indeed, i am truly is. I joined master's students project, joined RA in first year, taking up a role in robocon team, presenting in Intel, establishing a club. Is it aggresive enough? i think it is because i feel exhausting, but that the way you train yourself. You make the thing out from the time you possess. Why people say they are very busy in fact they still got time to eat, watch tv, surfing internet? Because they cut the time out for those activities and divide by the workload. How about Divide the time by the workload first and take the left ones for entertaining activities.

Thats my 3 laws.

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