Engineering to Law

Whether we are discussing World War II bombers, the progression of the F-15,F-16 and F-18 fighter jets, or the vector propulsion of Harrier jets, all airplanes spark enthusiasm in my father -- an enthusiasm that I came to share. As a young girl I remember my father telling me about these amazing advances in technology as we strained our necks back to watch the planes fly over the summer holiday fairgrounds. The two of us would make the commute to the local air shows several times on those weekends, just to make sure that we didn’t miss any of the acts. By the time I entered college, I had become more interested in the physics and aerodynamics of flight, which has led me to pursue a degree in mechanical engineering. While learning about the jets and planes that my father and I discussed in my childhood, however, I realized that my interests stretched beyond mechanical engineering and included the desire to impact the world through intellectual property law.

As an engineering physics laboratory teacher’s assistant, I spent many hours in the lab teaching various concepts and working with other students. I quickly learned that no matter how well I understood certain theories, I could not help my students unless I could effectively communicate those theories to them. Learning to teach greatly improved my interpersonal skills, which I then applied when working as an elementary school tutor and summer camp counselor.

As my goals evolved during college, I found that mechanical engineering no longer fulfilled all of my aspirations. The skills of communication, critical thinking, and imagination that I was cultivating seemed more suitable for an interpersonal field. One professor suggested that I look into invention law, and when a speaker came to our senior design class and discussed his career as an intellectual property attorney, I knew that this was the ideal career for me. As an intellectual property lawyer, I would have the opportunity to make a difference in the legal sector while continuing to further my interest in industrial and mechanical engineering -- after first receiving a broad grounding in legal theory as well as invention law.

點(diǎn)評：

總的來說，這片文書的結(jié)構(gòu)還算合理，語句也很暢順，但是卻在內(nèi)容選材上沒有很好的利用。 章的題目是《工程到法律》，很明顯就是表明了這是一篇關(guān)于作者如何從對工程學(xué)的喜愛轉(zhuǎn)變成對法律的追求的文章。

原本看到這個題目會感到非常的有興趣，但是越往下看卻越覺得莫名其妙。一開始作者就闡述了從小父親和她是如何的熱衷于飛機(jī)，并且因?yàn)槭芨赣H的影響，對物理學(xué)和空氣力學(xué)產(chǎn)生了興趣，并攻讀了相關(guān)的學(xué)位。但是作者又突然發(fā)現(xiàn)自己原來并不是那么喜歡與飛機(jī)有關(guān)的工程學(xué)，反而對知識產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)產(chǎn)生了濃厚的興趣。雖然作者有嘗試把為什么會對知識產(chǎn)權(quán)法產(chǎn)生興趣做出解釋，但是例子卻沒有選好。作者只是片面地強(qiáng)調(diào)在當(dāng)助教的期間，發(fā)現(xiàn)人與人之間的溝通是多么的重要，但是并沒有明確的表明知識產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)會對她有什么重要的意義。又或者說從工程學(xué)轉(zhuǎn)變成知識產(chǎn)權(quán)學(xué)兩者間的關(guān)聯(lián)又是什么。文章并沒有做出很好的解釋，而且讓人感到作者所有用的理由比較的牽強(qiáng)。

相反，如果作者可以進(jìn)一步的解釋，如為什么知識產(chǎn)權(quán)會讓她覺得那么的重要，又或者說她對工程學(xué)的了解可以幫助她怎么更好的去學(xué)習(xí)知識產(chǎn)權(quán)這方面入手的話，或許會更有說服力。因此，這篇文章并不算是一篇成功的文書。

譯文：

從工程學(xué)到法學(xué)

無論我們是在討論二戰(zhàn)的轟炸機(jī)，還是不過改良的F-15和F-16和F-18戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)，又或者是矢量發(fā)動的噴氣戰(zhàn)斗機(jī)，所有的飛機(jī)都能使我父親的熱情閃爍 -- 一個讓我來跟大家分享的熱情。當(dāng)我還是個小女孩，我記得我和父親在暑假里全神貫注的看著飛機(jī)在賽場上飛過時，父親跟我說了許多關(guān)于這些了不起的科技。我們兩個在那幾個周末里通常要往返當(dāng)?shù)氐暮秸购脦状?，只是為了確保不要錯過一場表演。當(dāng)我進(jìn)入大學(xué)的時候，我對物理學(xué)和飛行的空氣動力越來越有興趣，致使我最終攻讀了機(jī)械工程學(xué)位。雖然在我童年的時候，通過跟父親的探討我了解了許多關(guān)于噴氣機(jī)和飛機(jī)的知識，但是我卻發(fā)現(xiàn)我真正的興趣所在并不僅僅停留于機(jī)械工程上面，而是延伸到對可以影響世界的知識產(chǎn)權(quán)法的渴求上了。

作為工程物理實(shí)驗(yàn)室教師助理，我花了許多時間在實(shí)驗(yàn)室里教授各種概念，并同其他學(xué)生一起工作。我很快的發(fā)現(xiàn)，無論我對某些理論有多么深的了解，要是沒有有效的溝通，我都不能幫助到我的學(xué)生去了解這些理論。學(xué)習(xí)怎么去教書大大的改善了我的人際關(guān)系技巧，當(dāng)時我還申請了去當(dāng)小學(xué)的教師及夏令營輔導(dǎo)員。

在校期間我的目標(biāo)不斷的發(fā)展，我發(fā)現(xiàn)機(jī)械工程不再滿足我所有的愿望。反而我一直培養(yǎng)自己的溝通技能，批判思維和想象力才似乎更適合于我的人際關(guān)系領(lǐng)域。一位教授認(rèn)為我應(yīng)該研究發(fā)明法，而當(dāng)一位演講人來到我們的高級設(shè)計(jì)課討論他作為一名知識產(chǎn)權(quán)律師的生涯時，我知道了這才是我的理想職業(yè)。作為一名知識產(chǎn)權(quán)律師，我有機(jī)會在不同的法律部門做出影響，同時也使我對工業(yè)和機(jī)械工程的興趣更進(jìn)一步得到發(fā)展，-- 在接受了廣泛的法律理論基礎(chǔ)和發(fā)明法后。