During our trip with the Engineering In London program, I got to experience living in a new environment with little to no strict guidelines, which allowed me to develop valuable skills that will carry beyond the program. Other than the life skills I developed through this trip, a marvelous activity brought by the program was seeing real old steam machines at the Steam and science museum. Since the machines are so big, we could see all the individual processes we had been learning about during class, which helped bring into perspective what they did. Whereas with the more modern engines, it was harder to tell what was happening, so seeing the larger steam engines enhanced my learning of thermodynamics on this trip.          

Besides those two museums, the next best thing we did was go to the royal institute, where we got to sit through a lecture about the big bang. The lecture talked about all the significant events that led to current leading theories of the start of the universe. The lecture hall we sat in was the same one Michael Faraday showed the world about electromagnetic induction. We also got to see the original disk that he first presented with. Through the museums and the royal institute, we saw numerous examples of the content we were learning in the class, which helped expand what we learned in London.

Other than the engineering aspect of the trip, we got to experience a brand-new culture. I have never lived in a big city like London, and to share that was an experience like no other. Trying different foods and customs helped me learn a lot about the culture of London, as there are genuinely some aspects of London, such as the trains and the street markets, that made London a marvelous time.

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