I am Hieu Phan, a freshman at Miami University. My major is Mechanical Engineering and my minor is Computer Science. My goal after 4 years at Miami is that I can gain enough knowledge and skills to become an engineer or to further my education by pursuing Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering. I have done some projects about Mechanical Engineering and Chemical Engineering, and my most significant one is a reading machine for blind people that I will tell you in Inquiry 1. I know some programming languages like C++, Java, and I am learning Python by myself to gain more skills. In my free time, I am in favor of playing sports such as soccer, or table tennis, reading some information about galaxies. I am creating this blog as a project of my ENG 109 class, but I believe that this is also a good place for me to express my ideas about aspects in my life and a mean for you to see who and how I am. I hope that besides these inquiries, I can develop this website as my own one to my remarkable events. Thank you for visiting!!!

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