A graduate level education in this university will no doubt benefit me greatly for my future career. It will give me the opportunity to interact with and learn from the best and well experienced engineers in the world. The advanced knowledge and skills that will gain will definitely help my professional life to achieve goals of making the structures be safe from the earthquake. I want to acquire competence in the discipline chosen and acquire it in depth. I want to hone my intellectual faculties; to ask questions fearlessly and seek answers with persistence; to find out how knowledge is constructed and reconstructed; to develop individuality and conviviality and to learn for collective good.