Youngmin from South Korea -April 2015 admission
It has been nearly a month since the entrance ceremony, and I am quite surprised to find myself pleasantly studying through the holidays for classes. Last day of Golden Week ended roughly twenty hours ago, having filled mostly with the preparatory meeting for the presentation in "Exercises in Infrastructure Design." The class aims to improve first year students' understanding in civil infrastructure through lectures and student-oriented presentations. This time, my group decided to introduce the concept of viscosity and characteristics of viscous fluids, on which the study of hydraulics focuses. For better understanding of the difference between inviscid and viscous fluids, we have used Bernoulli's theorem for inviscid fluids to describe that the conservation of energy is kept constant in the Bernoulli's equation, and how the energy loss occurs when a closed system deals with friction caused by the viscosity of a fluid. As the study of hydraulics is a major-specific course designed for second year civil engineering students, my group tried to keep our explanation as succinct as possible.
When such task is over, the sense of fulfillment from successfully completing a university level task is quite distinctive, and it serves as a great source of motivation for further studies. For such reason, I hope to fully utilize the "freedom of academic culture" in my stay at Kyoto University.