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February, 2023

Throwback!

Yesterday, I visited the #construction site for the new building of the UT Southwestern Biomedical Engineering Department, designed with the latest technologies. I visited the location of my future laboratory and office, and closely followed all the construction and technical details. The #workers around us worked diligently and energetically, all in harmony and integration to make a beautiful building. Just like a #cell, each organelle does its work in harmony and integration for the continuation of life.

But what I felt most about this visit was a "strange" feeling of "belonging", as soon as I entered the building. Construction sites have a special “smell”, and the buzzing of the construction machines has a special “rhythm”, only those who work/worked there can feel it. As soon as I “smelled the construction” and “heard the rhythm”, I was taken back to days that were among the most beautiful days of my life.

After I finished high school and before entering university, I worked in many #jobs, such as paving streets, paving the sidewalks, handyman home repairs, and as an electrician. Despite the hardship of working physically, #construction work environment gives a special feeling of productivity and satisfaction. It is a feeling of creating something out of nothing, so you feel overjoyed every time you finish a project. Just like in #science when you make a new discovery or when a patient gets benefit from a product of your work.

O my beloved #hardworking people ... you who earn your livelihood with dignity and sweat ... raise your heads high and stand up tall ... we all owe you much of the development and luxuries we live in.

(Photo: Me at 18 years old, as an electrician, my clothes and body are covered in dust, but my smile is big and real ... accompanied with the two indispensable “weapons” of an electrician: an angle grinder and a heavy duty hammer-drill).