Hey anonymous guy reading my letter,

My name is Urse Razvan. I am a second-year student at the University Politehnica of

Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Department of Automatic
Control and System Engineering and I am writing this motivational letter because I think I have
the exact requirements needed to participate in your course Bridges. Connecting People. I have
the skill, I feel rakish enough to take part in all the not so course related activities and I have
the desire to meet great people, to learn great things, both about bridges and Patras and Greek
traditions, and to attend those famous BEST parties I keep hearing about.

Regarding bridges, I could copy-paste some boring information from Wikipedia, post
some statistics, analyze some graphs, but I think you would appreciate my honest opinion on
them more. By the engineering point of view, a bridge is a phenomenal structure due to its
proportions, its resilience and its endurance to the massive load of cars and people, to the rough
nursing of the weather and to whatever else nature throws at it (earthquakes for example). But
its role is what pushes it to the top and makes me be a little poetic about it. You nailed the title
on this course: Bridges. Connecting People because thats exactly what they do and even more.
They connect lives, friendships and they became indispensable to the people living on the other
side of them. There were some cases when one bridge represented the very foundation of
freedom for a country and the people living there. During the Soviet reign, the Flower Bridge
between Romania and Bessarabia(nowadays Republic of Moldova) which once represented the
meeting point between brothers, sisters, friends or even lovers from both the countries, became
inaccessible, separating them as if the bridge wasnt even there. Imagine now what would
happen if all bridges in the world were to disappear: people wont be able to go to their jobs(over
110.000 people cross the Golden Gate Bridge per day), transports of food and supplies in general
wont reach their destination, sick or hurt people wont be able to be transported to hospitals and
everything will turn into a mini-chaos.

I think I stated my opinion pretty clearly about the matter of bridges and I forgot to tell
more about myself. Ive practiced basketball for 4 years and I am skilled enough not to trip
myself when playing football. I love making fun of the simpler things in life and I cant describe
a more fulfilling feel than to make someone else laugh. I love to party and I am pretty good at it
too. Im not that good at learning by reading but I can ace you any practical test. I like working
solo but I love being part in a team and when it comes to projects, I involve myself 120%. I can
say this is rather a flaw since I tend to commit too much to my work.

The other thing that drew me into applying to this course is the absolute beauty of a
location that Patras is. Since Ive last visited Greece in 2012 I cant stop dreaming about the
riches it has to offer, both the sightings and the culture, about those Greek nights where
everything is joyful and all people are friends, for the diversity in food(seriously, I couldnt
imagine so many ways to cook lamb) and lets be honest, for some of that delicious Ouzo too.
Patras looks simply astounding and I truly wish to experience it to the fullest, not only from
some pictures and stories on the Internet.
 I would love to take part into your Course if I were to be accepted as I am not only
eager to learn but also to party with all the BEST people. I look forward to your reply. Wish you
BEST, Razvan.

I am always impressed by the Japanese building structures, but even for their great set of
skills, Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is a piece of wonder. Not only that it is the longest suspension
bridge in the world, measuring almost 2 km, but the simple fact that it was built in only 12 years
is a mind-blowing fact. This colossus has the looks and also the endurance, since it was built to
resist shattering earthquakes, high-speed winds and ferocious ocean currents crashing on its
pylons. It looks so neat as if it calls you to cross it. If I were to adapt a funny saying from the
internet, it would go like this: Never nuke a country twice, because it just might build one of the
most impressive bridge in the world.

Building a bridge between two eras sounds interesting. It also seems dangerous,
especially if that bridge goes from our time to the past. Everyone who watched at least one
science-fiction movie regarding this topic knows that changing something in the past has direct
impact on the present (the notorious butterfly effect). However, traveling via a bridge from our
time to the future and the other way around could benefit us all. Knowing how our future will
look can motivate us into changing our behaviour towards the environment. I don't want to sound
pompous but global warming and pollution are a real threat. Yes, I joke about it and about the
fact that my grandchildren won't probably see a live polar bear, but in reality this is no laughing
matter. Seeing how our future will look and mostly meeting our future selves can benefit the
entire human kind. That makes for a pretty important bridge.

When designing a bridge, the engineers responsible for this should take into account first
the entirety of the location where the bridge is going to be situated, this thing including: the type
of ground in which the pylons are going to be placed, the weather in that area and the possibility
of natural disasters.

Second of all, the best materials have to be chosen for the ongoing project. And lastly, the
structure itself must be resistant, so that the bridge should not have regularly checks of
maintenance.
 Hey anonymous guy reading my letter,

My name is Urse Razvan. I am a second-year student at the University Politehnica of

Bucharest, Faculty of Automatic Control and Computer Science, Department of Automatic
Control and System Engineering and I am writing this motivational letter because I think I have
the exact requirements needed to participate in your course, We can CAD it better. I have the
skill, I feel rakish enough to take part in all the not so course related activities and I have the
desire to meet great people, to learn great things, both about 3D design and the jewel on the
shore of Bega, Timisoara. Also I am eager to attend those famous BEST parties I keep hearing
about.

Regarding 3D design I am excited working with CAD. Ive only worked with AutoCAD
up until now and I cheered like a little kid playing for the first time with LEGOs when I started
building shapes from my keyboard. Your course startles me. I dont know why but the idea of
designing my own ideas in 3D, of projecting my thoughts and opinions on how a robot or a
building should look is at the very least exciting. To be honest, Ive only worked in the 2D
perspective but I am up for the challenge. I usually dont enjoy learning by reading and
memorizing. I only do it when its absolutely necessary and I find little delight in doing it.
However with CAD its different since I find enjoyment in it. Its one of the few things I liked
doing in my free time and 3D designing sounds so much better. Together with the sleepless
nights along the great people from BEST should make for a unforgivable experience.

I, myself am from Romania, so I feel so much more ashamed about the fact that Ive
never visited Timisoara. It is considered one of the prettiest cities in Romania, full of historical
and heritage sites, a blooming flower of history and culture. Ive always wanted to visit the place
where the revolution of 1989 first started in Romania, to walk along Bega and drink a cup of
something in the historical center but I never got myself together to do it. Maybe because I didnt
have the right or should I say, BEST people to accompany me.

Ive written so much about my intentions that I nearly forgot to tell more about myself.
Ive practiced basketball for 4 years and I am skilled enough not to trip myself when playing
football. I love making fun of the simpler things in life and I cant describe a more fulfilling feel
than to make someone else laugh. I love to party and I am pretty good at it too. Im not that good
at learning by reading but I can ace you any practical test. I like working solo but I love being
part in a team and when it comes to projects, I involve myself 120%. I can say this is rather a
flaw since I tend to commit too much to my work.

As a conclusion, I would love to take part into your Course if I were to be accepted as I
am not only eager to learn but also to party with you guys. I look forward to your reply. Wish
you BEST, Razvan.

Even though I would love to get myself a job in this domain of 3D designing, I don't
think that the path of life will lead me to something like this. My profile at Uni, even though it is
as close to CAD as Automatics can get, doesn't seem to open a whole lot of doors in the future
towards 3D designing. However, I would love to store all the knowledge I get from this course in
my bag of skills and maybe use it to teach it forward, to my friends or even potential pupils or
students of mine.

I would use 2D CAD for visual representations of the sides of a technological

component, while the 3D representation to give it depth or to design something to complicated to
be transcribed into 2D.

Being a magical 3D printer it means it could do anything, even printing another magical
3D printer. These kind of printers, if in the right hands, could save the human kind from every
dangers that is is currently in: hunger, diseases, wars, global warming. We could create
thousands of printers who could print food for the poor while others print entire shelters. Other
printers could print live, human organs for transplant while others could print fresh air, or a new
ozone layer. That's why printing another magical printer seems the first step towards a great idea.