Social Impact and Brazil
By Xiaoming
As the first sight of IM860 in spring semester course option, I decided to choose it right away. There are two points that drove me to choose this class: The social impact and Trip to Brazil.
My experience was mainly focused on engineering and sourcing in O&G industry. Social impact is a brand new category to me. This is a precious opportunity for me to know what social impact is and what could I take away through taking this course. Meanwhile, this course provides me an opportunity to dive in a real consulting project, which is also a new territory that I have never been involved in before. Is it possible for me to have a consulting job in my future career? I am fully convinced that I will get the answer when I complete this project.
The second motivation is that Brazil is a brand new country that I have longed to visit long time ago. Brazil is famous for its beautiful nature view: Christ Statues in Rio. Beautiful beaches and mysterious Amazon rain forest. All those stuff are temptation for me to explore. I was so excited and could not wait for visiting this beautiful country. Unfortunately, my dream was broken when I received the mail that BU cancelled the field trip to Brazil. How disappoint I was when I learned this news. I was so frustrated for this news but what can I do? I have to accept this fact. Fortunately, BU decided to let us continue to carry on this project. SO, despite the frustration, my team members continue working on the project to support our Brazil client. I believe that my Brazil customer is disappointed as well. Trust our following work will relieve both sides’ emotion.