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Tell us about an engineering idea you have, or about your interest in engineering. Describe how your ideas and interests may be realized by—and linked to—specific resources within the College of Engineering. Finally, explain what a Cornell Engineering education will enable you to accomplish.

I was the girl who wedged herself into the ring of boys around the Lego table. The other girls thought such a brutish pursuit below them. Build, take apart, repeat. I saw instead a fascinating art, the science of testable design and manipulation, whose grip on my imagination would last far beyond my preschool days.
My love for testing ideas flourished in elementary school. Though my projects were fairly small-scale, this fact did not prevent some of them from failing spectacularly. My most memorable one, however, had quite an ambitious goal. I aimed to construct a transportation device that could carry me to my neighbor's house. When I presented the question to my grandpa, who had been an engineer for many years, he suggested a wildly efficient method: my own two feet. Of course, I rejected th...