Why Cornell's College of Engineering?

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Unperturbed with my questions like “Why does the popcorn pop?” or “Why is the sky blue when space is black?” my parents endeavored to provide me with the mindset and resources to go beyond the superficial, searching for answers on my own. I was given incredible freedom to learn and to experiment; my dad often letting me loose on his desktop causing the poor machine to crash, unable to bear my adventures. As I carefully observed him open the machine to undo some of my doings, I was dumbfounded by the intricate view inside. How could such delicate fragments of hardware and complex software work together and yet be so easy to operate? Answers to my probing questions, slowly unraveled how each “part” added up to the “whole”, thereby seeding the concept of “simplicity through complexity” in my mind; my first engineering idea.
As I have grown, computing and this idea has slowly become my world. Therefore, be it my work experience of creating a leave management system for school employees, making a mobile application for easy tracking of homework by students or participating in Google Cod...

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