TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY…one experience of a journey.

The university seal

I was there from Dec 1988 until Dec 1992. Exactly 4 years. I don’t know why but today after almost 17 years, I miss Texas Tech. It was there where I learnt about Americans; the good and the bad about them. It was my first experience of being away overseas and meeting a lot of different people from all over the world. The US was a melting pot at that time. It still is. But not until I arrived in Dubai a couple years ago that I realized…Dubai is even more ‘melt’ and ‘gelled’ with human diversity.

States was booming then and leading the world in every aspect. Everybody wanted to go to the US. It’s was like a brand everybody proudly wanted to be associated with. But at present time…we may have to ask Obama how he is ‘cleansing’ the US brand.

Will Rogers Statue

It is not about the US that I’m proud to be a part of but the ‘experience’. All famous items and brands in the world today are created from the same experience, the US experience. Things like fast foods and carbonated drinks are popularized from their experience. In other words, it is not literally about the US brands but the US experience. Thus, no experience is bad experience; it is just how you use it.

The College of Architecture

For me, we want to move forward from our experience. In general, Japan is a good example of a nation which had moved and developed further the technological experiences of the west by creating something even better then called their own. In turn, Japan assaults the US and the West economically through its advanced experience. Unlike Japan however, Iran is another example of how technological experience can be literally transferred or copied. The exact US experience was reproduced and copied through a process called reverse engineering. (Read for knowledge: Here, Here , Here and Here)

Americans themselves could have obtained the experience originally elsewhere but what really matter was how they used and took advantage of it.

In Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, what we learnt formed part of what we are now. For the whole 4 years, the academic experience contributed 50 percent of the total. In fact, I don’t know how much of that I actually used. The other half was actually the experience of life. Something that had already developed further and gave us more understanding and control of things around us. There were multitudes of good and not so good experience back then. Some still transfer and copy those experiences in their lives. Personally, what is more important is how to use them for a good course. InsyaAllah.

Like the countries that used the experience for their own good, I use the US experience to stand for what is right in my belief.

Zbadbahrain

27/01/2009

(All photos are by : Here)

Oops...Not to forget. Met the love of my life also here at TTU.