Why I Want To Pursue A Chemical Engineering Degree

Thirty years from now, I want to be able to say that I graduated college with a Chemical Engineering degree, and went to work straight out of college. Currently, I wish to work in an industrial setting, preferably at a pharmaceutical company. Moreover, I hope that my future self will say that I have grown as a person and have different flaws than I do now, but I hope that I will continue to enjoy helping others all throughout my life. Even as I as I am challenged, I hope that I will be able to look back and see that I am stronger than I was before, and have hope that the next day will be even better than the one before. As I go away to college and leave my parents, I want to continue to grow in my Faith. Most importantly, I hope that I am happy and satisfied in everything I do. My academic goal is to receive the same engineering degree that both of my parents received. As I

Over the course of the last four years, I have attended a wide variety of free, state sponsored summer camps, the most impactful of which was the Mysteries of Biomedical Sciences at OSU the summer prior my sophomore year of high school. I was looking forward to this camp because up to that point I believed I wanted to study Biomedical Engineering. When I received the acceptance letter, I was thrilled because only half the student who applied were accepted. However, when I got there I was appalled and slightly traumatized, and it was then that I realized that Biomedical Engineering or any biological study was not for me. Since that camp was about biomedical sciences and not restricted to engineering, I distinctly remember a Forensic scientist came the second day to talk about a certain crime that he had to