I am Troy Edwards, a senior computer science major from Amarillo Texas. Since I was little, my family, family friends, and I knew that I would be a scientist or engineer when I grew up.
The school district in my home town had a special school known as AACAL (pronounced "A-Cal"). At AACAL, students would take their math, science, and a specialty class. They offered engineering, computer science, medical, animal science, and automotive as specialties. During a student’s senior year, they would have an internship at a local company. My internship was at Bell Helicopter with mechanical engineers on the V-22 lesion team.
Since I was little, I knew I wanted to go to Texas A&M. My grandfather got his bachelor’s degree here in soil science before
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I had taken physics as a Junior and Senior in high school, as well as my first year in College, and I enjoyed it.
After three semesters at community college, I transferred to Texas A&M as a Physics major. However, I quickly found out that while I had an interest in physics, I was not going to want to work as a physicist. I often caught myself thinking: after graduation, if I really did not want to work in physics, some engineering jobs would accept a physics degree. After thinking that enough times, I decided to switch back to engineering.
Before I could switch into engineering, I had to switch to general studies (or "Transition studies" as they called themselves). During my semester as general studies, I could not take ENGR 111 or 112 as they are reserved for engineering majors, but I was able to take some approved substitutions. One of these classes was the computer science's non-major python programming class. This was my second programming class, and I enjoyed it. A few semesters prior, I took a programming at my community college to fulfill a requirement for the physics degree. I enjoyed both programming courses, so I decided to pursue computer science, and I have loved the major
I've always loved learning, especially math. Math has always come easy to me. Science also has never been challenging enough so I took Chemistry this year and I am planning to take physics next years. Chemistry is very challenging for me and I've had thoughts of dropping out of it, but I pushed myself and forced myself not to give
College Admissions Essay If someone asked me where I am going to be in ten years, this would be my answer. I have a great, high-paying job, and beautiful wife and family, and a nice sports car parked in front of my lovely house. When I look into the future, I see myself being successful and happy. Even though I always pictured myself this way, I never worried too much about how I would get there.
When I began high school, I was a little lost. My English was still frail- which was one of the reasons I kept to myself. When my homeroom teacher passed me the paper to choose a “career path,” I didn’t know what I was doing. All the words jumbled in my head and I didn’t bother to ask because I did not know how. I think I chose ‘cosmetology’ probably because it sounded like its Spanish version. Nevertheless, my sophomore year, things started to clear up, I was now considered fluent and actually understood what was happening. That same year I changed my cluster to STEM- I have always loved science and I truly knew that was my passion. Everyday after class, I would go home and read more on the subject. Passing hours on end reading through science journals and reading recent studies wasn’t a strange day for me.
“We are celebrating the power of learning and the trajectory that it will create for the San Antonio community,” Taylor said. “STEM skills will take our students far in life. Many of the high-paying jobs require these skills.”
I am not a Martin Luther King, devoted to a movement, or a Christopher Columbus, devoted to a quest, or a Leonardo di Vinci, devoted to an image. Yet everyone needs some devotion in his life. I am a musician, a daughter, a Christian, a traveler, a sister, a friend, an animal lover, a writer, and many things besides. The biggest dilemma for me is finding ways to fuse these different parts of myself into a recognizable person. I would need several lifetimes to pursue all of my dreams individually, so they must become one dream, one working vessel of passion. So how can I mix my zeal for music, for example, with my need to write? They are one in the same for me, really, both means of ardent expression of sadness or anger or joy.
When I was in middle school, I had totally no idea of what Computer Science is, but I was pretty proficient in using computers at that age. The only thing that I knew about Computer Science is that one of my aunts is in that field and that’s all, nor of my parents are in that major. Not until in High School that I got the sense of what programming is like. I was taught basic simple codings and I really enjoyed it and thought that the class was actually quite fun. But the class didn’t give me any sense of the important real-world applications of Computer Science. Not until recently as I am in the Computer Science major, I started to really have the real idea and to gain real passion for the field. Computer Science is not all about programming.
Maths and physics have always fascinated me and from an early age I knew that it was in the science based subjects that my interests and greatest ability lay. Although I have enjoyed the challenge that my school-based work has given me, I have always sought to extend my knowledge in these subject areas by considering the application of the theory we learn within the curriculum to the real world. This desire to learn how theory can be applied in real life allowed me to greatly enjoy the mechanics modules of my further maths A-level to such a degree that I knew that engineering would be the ideal subject to study at the highest level. While physics and maths give one the background skills needed to assure the validity of innovation and technology,
My decision to apply for a graduate program at the University of Toledo is driven by my aspirations to pursue a research career in the field of Applied Mathematics. This field interests me because of its wide-ranging application, and excitement to study. I believe that a strong and thorough background as well as a complete awareness of recent developments is essential for an intellectually stimulating and satisfying research career. Towards realizing this objective at an esteemed department, such as yours, I am applying to your university. An objective analysis of my background, interests, strengths and weakness lead me to believe that I will be successful both as a graduate student, and later as a professional Mathematician and researcher.
Though I was in engineering, I spent time pursuing physics through various online courses both certified and uncertified. The more I studied Physics, the more I embraced the scientific method, the more I realized there is a lot more to learn. I realized that science was the place which will make me feel comfortable. By the end of my third semester I realized that I should try to pursue a career in Physics after
Everyone who wants to get a college education should have the chance, but for some students it can feel like there are too many barriers in the way. Applying to college is not an easy task. “My first piece of advice, is that you can do this!” says Sam Scoggin, dean of admissions at The International School of Dakar. “It may seem complicated and difficult at first,” he adds, but “there are potentially big rewards as a result of doing it!” Applying to college means more than just filling out forms. There are several steps to follow.
Mathematics for me used to be a series of formulae you could manipulate to get solutions without having to get too involved in the workings of a problem. This only works with simple problems of course, but as I grew up, these problems gradually started getting difficult and I could not solve them as easily. The turning point for me was when my dad taught me maths, who represented these problems through pictures. Suddenly, the maths was replaced by diagrams visualising how the world around us functioned and through my lessons with him, I became gradually more and more fascinated by how problems can be modelled, which can then be solved easily. This was my first foray into the basics of mathematical modelling.
From a young age, I was always interested in numbers. I’ve been told many times that as a toddler I was always asking questions, wanting to learn basic mathematics. My love for math continued through high school and to this day, and I currently pursue a degree of mathematics at the University of Bath. However, from my early days, along with my interest for numbers came an interest in money, and material gain. Not in making my own, but why others made the decisions that they did.
I first became interested in computer science after 8th grade when I took courses in C++ and animation. Since then, I have taken classes related to engineering and technology. This year, I had the opportunity to take Intro to Computer Science at Yeshiva University in Manhattan. In 10th and 11th grades I took Scientific Engineering, a unique class at my school that combined programming and electrical engineering to create interactive projects. For example, in 10th grade, my team and I made a coffee machine using the Arduino microcontroller, an IR remote, servos, and solenoid valves. We built containers out of PVC pipe to hold water, instant coffee, and sugar. Using the IR remote, we were able to regulate the exact amount of water, coffee, and
During my school and college, I was very sharp in analytical problem solving and this quality made physics and mathematics one of my favorite subjects. I was very keen on performing the physics practical. My inclination towards physics and mathematics compelled to choose electrical engineering for my Bachelors degree.
After my twelfth grade, the inherent ardor I held for Computer Sciencemotivated me to do a bachelors degree in Information Technology. Programming and Math, a paragon of logic and reasoning have always been my favorite subjects since childhood. I still vividly remember the time during my graduation,when I was successful in creating a simple calculator application as a class assignment.The joy I derived from creating something that is used by a lot of people to help them perform complex calculations,made me realize the power of computing in its true sense.It was also in my graduation that I developed an immense interest in programming languages such as Java, C++ an...