I agree what the upstair said. As I know, you are a very knowledgeable man in this industry. Truely, we need get and understand all respects of petroleum industry from the REAL thing. But it is a pity, most of us in China, don't have the chance to follow this natral and effective way. Most of time, we are planed. You know,by the environment around us. This is very different form the other country. So in a limited time, we need to master this skill and use it to fufill our work. We do not have a choice to choose how to do it effectively , but ASAP. So we need some 'short cut' . And otherwise, our students usually study very hard and have a systematic grasp of all "REAL" things of this industry both in classroom and outside. You know we recite and do a lot of homework. We also have two or three months everyyear to visit the real wellsite and to sense how the knowledge in books work in real world.
What you said really give us some thoughts, maybe we should pay more attention the the precious chance when we have the chance to experience the REAL thing. You know, most of time, we do it for fun.
Best wishes for you, and hope you can give us more and more experience and ideas. You are the teacher of us. Nice having you here.