My journey through life has been one full of twists and turns, just as anyone else’s has. Throughout my childhood, I enjoyed myself as a student, and athlete, and just a plain kid. I developed the skills and knowledge that led to my eventual life at North Carolina State University. The culmination of schooling and hard work and even a little bit of chance has set me up brilliantly to be an engineer. With my past behind me and the present shaping of my life, a map of the future looks very prosperous and full of engineering innovation. Although as a young kid I was adventurous, my development as an engineer didn’t really being until the latter part of high school. I always had a love for math, but my interest spiked while taking AP Calculus. …show more content…
From there, I decided to visit NC State, a well-known engineering school and fell in love with it. In this first photo, Mr. Wuf greets me to what would become my future home. Senior year become the final preparation for the real world. It could be synonymous to drawing back the bow to launch forward. Significant milestones include attending senior night with my parents, senior awards, and obviously graduation. All of these represented significant accomplishments in sports, band, and academics. Senior night represented the last home game of the year and the end of my high school sports and marching band career. Spending with my parents also showed their unconditional support for me. I looked up to my father as he was an aerospace engineer and with his direction I was able to find something I enjoyed. During senior awards, all my hard work in schooling paid off with several …show more content…
Currently, I’m attending classes and involving myself in extracurriculars to best set me up to become a more complete engineer and person. In my fifth photo, I’m sitting on top of the wolf with one of the many friends I’ve made so far. The friendships have contributed positively to the college experience so far and many of them are in the same major as myself. With our collective minds working together, we will certainly grow to become fully functioning engineers. As for the near future, I chose a picture of a graduation cap and diploma to represent the inevitable end of the years I spend at college. I wish to graduate in Industrial Engineering and be able to put it towards a job either in the Air Force or the open job market. The seventh picture depicts an example of what an industrial systems engineer would do. They optimize complex problems and and systems of organization. In this case, the engineers are working with a robonaut and developing a system for how it works. This is how I picture a job in the future; working with other to provide an optimal
As young girl with big dreams I imagined my senior year of high school to be one of the best years of my life. I imagined going to homecoming with all of my friends, being the captain of the varsity soccer and cheerleading teams, going to Friday night football games, going to Prom with my perfect date, and going on a senior trip with all of my best friends. I never imagined my senior year to be the way that it is. I am the new kid.
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In short, I feel junior year provided a foundation for the more mature and adult chapters of my life, and without the numerous obstacles of junior year, I would never have gained the key to a successful future.
Learning is a continuous process and the day that you stop learning is the day that you start decreasing your rewards and lower levels of satisfaction. My ardent desire to acquire knowledge has motivated me to pursue higher studies at graduate level, and to take up a career in research in industry. I have taken this decision after carefully considering my academic background, profound interest in research and strong aptitude for problem solving. Banking on an excellent academic record coupled with a keen interest in the ever-growing field of science and technology motivated me to take up engineering.
Now having more confidence, I believed that I could finally navigate the waves of life. I entered King College Preparatory High School’s engineering program. With a high interest in the process of designing and building cars, I could now see them in action. My eyes were opened to the many disciplines under the topic of engineering. Desire had developed itself into something deeper, as now I had a zeal for engineering and all that it had to offer.
The past two years have been the most pivotal and life changing years of my life. I have learned, I have grown, and I have finally accomplished the biggest challenge I set up for myself - Engineering School. After 4years and 20months of internship, I’m glad to announce that I can finally call myself an Electrical Engineering graduate. In March, when I swore the oath/received my iron ring and became an obligated engineer, I knew that I was close to the finish line.
Engineering has been a key interest of mine since childhood. While still in grade school I enjoyed listening to my father, an electrical engineer, teach me about advances in technology, and was always eager to hear more. I was introduced to my first computer at the age of five, and have loved interacting with them ever since. My decision to study engineering as a career was no surprise to those who knew me.
People travel miles in search of their true passion; some find them early in their life and I consider myself lucky enough to be one among them. I found my true calling at the age of 12 on a field trip to a milk factory. It seemed like the Disneyland of science with huge machineries, conveyer belts running all around, and instruments working about in their own rhythm with sheer intricacies and perfection. As a kid, I was eager to understand the mechanics behind this magical rhythm. The desire of gaining in-depth knowledge about Control System and Automation eventually led me to choose Electronics and Instrumentation Engineering as my undergraduate study.
I am a person who has always had a profound passion and fascination for areas requiring an analytical approach. Right from early days at school, Mathematics has intrigued me. The most challenging of all problems were my favorites and obtaining solutions to them would leave me with a sheer feeling of ecstasy. I always did and always would thrive on solving the most challenging problems. With a compelling desire to excel, hard work became my second nature. My aspiration for a technical career prompted me to take up one of the most coveted undergraduate program in Computer Engineering at SR Engineering College, the best of such institutions. My own systematic & methodical towards finding a solution to any problem best suits this field.
It has taken a very long time for me to decide on the path that I wanted to take for my career. I have almost always known that I wanted to be an engineer. I was always more interested in applying my knowledge to solve problems rather than just research and understand the world. However, I had little to no inkling as to which field of engineering I wanted to go in to. I had always been a dabbler, involving myself in a large variety of activities with the interest of learning about how stuff works. I started out learning how to use the tools in the shed outback, making pinewood derby cars and model rockets. I would help my dad with home improvement and repair projects around the house. As time went on, my ability learns and apply
“Knowledge, experience and the quality education are the best accomplishment in the race of life” is the statement in which I strongly believe and I forever yearn to have that. What is innovative today is obsolete tomorrow. We need to constantly streamline and upgrade our tools and resources. I believe that only an in depth study and an extensive research in my field of interest will help me to achieve my goal. I live in a world of changing times where technology is constantly engineering better lives. Brought up in a liberalized, humane and a capriciously technically charged environment, I see myself being a consistent part of constant changes around me. Today, my thoughts and aims in life spring from and centre around the world of Electrical Engineering.
An ambition to learn and grow and having passion for engineering have prompted me to go in for graduate studies. Chasing my Dreams! While growing up at a young age I was always intrigued by objects that produced mechanical work and energy be it prime movers such as automobiles, construction and mining equipment, turbo machinery such as jet engines, space shuttles or complex mechanisms of mechanical watches, I used to spend a lot of time trying to learn and figure out their basis and propositions, it was necessary for me to explore my inner conscience to understand my fascination towards machines and their ingenuity, Mechanical engineering seemed a direct consequence of my convictions. I have always admired my father as a civil engineer and his hard work and struggles throughout his life; He has always been a role model for me. He motivated me to pursue my dreams so I decided to pursue my undergraduate study in Mechanical Engineering
I look forward to being a better engineer than I am today by joining the student community at Clemson University.
My senior year is here, and passing quite quickly. Each day “I walk with a purpose, but no destination” (Ehrlich 232). I’ve had this same purpose etched in my mind since I can remember, it occasionally changes, ever so slightly, but remains consistent—to surpass people’s expectations and achieve something out of the norm. College is around the corner, but where will that be, what will it be? Close to home? A Thousand miles away? Why am I so concerned with this aspect of life—is it because that’s what everyone else seems consumed with? Everyone is pushing me for tomorrow, but what happened to today? I’m losing sight of what is so close. I’ve forgotten about treasuring the moment, absorbing the experiences right here in front of me. We all want to grow up, move on, and encounter something better, but “when [we] run so fast to get somewhere, [we] miss half the fun of getting there. When [we] worry and hurry through [our] day, it’s like an unopened gift, thrown away” (unknown). I think it’s time to take a step back and look at all today has to offer, see the people around who love me, relish every moment with friends who won’t be here next year, and take a good look at myself. Why I am the way I am and am I headed in the right direction?
In the most basic sense, engineering means “making things happen.” It is the practical application of science and math, the two subjects I am most passionate about, to solve everyday problems. It opens up a world of opportunity to create innovative technology that influences many aspects of people’s lives, this giving an individual the power to make a difference. While I am deeply interested in the subjects that are the foundation of engineering, in addition I have many other personal reasons for pursuing civil engineering in specific. I am motivated by my desire to fulfill my lifelong goal of creating purposeful infrastructure, to make all of my family proud, and to prove that not all engineers