“In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different”
Larry McVoy
I read this phrase time after time, because it was part of signature of JJ Quintela’s e-mails in GPUL mailing lists. Because it, maybe I didn’t think about until now.
The last months I have been studying Special Foundations. Our professor is D. Luis Carmona, who is a very experienced civil engineer. I got this subject because even when I’m becoming a structural engineer, I had the impression I didn’t learned foundations enough. I did this reflection one Monday, 8:30 when I took the wrong classroom, but it was a great thought, and I’m very happy now.
Into the classroom, but in the building site above all out we learnt the essentials of the day-by-day of a civil engineer. Of course, we studied theory, but we saw the proper use of that theory.
We visited two works: a road at La Cañiza (South Galicia) and a bridge over Miño river, and a diaphragm wall near the Campus.
